Social Problems Among Youth in Malaysia
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
The globalization makes the world become smaller and the communication between countries could be done easily due to advance technologies. World without barriers allows cultures from other countries influence the Malaysian especially the youths. There are good and bad cultures. The social problems emerged due to influences of the bad cultures from other countries. The youth cannot identify and analyze what are good and bad things.
Social problems among youth are prevalent in Malaysia highly. Young Malaysians who make up 60 percent of the population, they are future inheritors of a fully developed and modern Malaysia. Social problems are threatening the current and future direction of the nation. The examples of the social problems existing in Malaysia are drugs abuse, vandalism, violence, environmental problems, alcoholism, abortion, crime, smoking, sex before marriage, bullying and etc.
The government never take a break in trying, thinking and finding the manners to curb the social problems. Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Syed Putra Jamalullail on Tuesday (May 19, 2004) called for a change in the approach to curb social ills from that of punishing, blaming others and holding public lectures. On 9 February 2008 (The Star), The Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation has lauded the move to launch a pilot project in 10 selected areas in the Klang Valley, to reduce social ills and crimes by providing necessary facilities for the residents there. “The reality is that crime continues to be committed by the socially deviant and even by young people. We have to examine the causes of these criminal acts and find the answers to these problems,” its chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye said.
Vision 2020 plan is to make Malaysia a developed nation not only in the economic aspect, but also in the political, social, spiritual, and cultural aspects. Vision 2020 is a long-term plan, and it is highly dependent on younger Malaysians.
1.1 Background of the Study
The globalization makes the world become smaller and the communication between countries could be done easily due to advance technologies. World without barriers allows cultures from other countries influence the Malaysian especially the youths. There are good and bad cultures. The social problems emerged due to influences of the bad cultures from other countries. The youth cannot identify and analyze what are good and bad things.
Social problems among youth are prevalent in Malaysia highly. Young Malaysians who make up 60 percent of the population, they are future inheritors of a fully developed and modern Malaysia. Social problems are threatening the current and future direction of the nation. The examples of the social problems existing in Malaysia are drugs abuse, vandalism, violence, environmental problems, alcoholism, abortion, crime, smoking, sex before marriage, bullying and etc.
The government never take a break in trying, thinking and finding the manners to curb the social problems. Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Syed Putra Jamalullail on Tuesday (May 19, 2004) called for a change in the approach to curb social ills from that of punishing, blaming others and holding public lectures. On 9 February 2008 (The Star), The Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation has lauded the move to launch a pilot project in 10 selected areas in the Klang Valley, to reduce social ills and crimes by providing necessary facilities for the residents there. “The reality is that crime continues to be committed by the socially deviant and even by young people. We have to examine the causes of these criminal acts and find the answers to these problems,” its chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye said.
Vision 2020 plan is to make Malaysia a developed nation not only in the economic aspect, but also in the political, social, spiritual, and cultural aspects. Vision 2020 is a long-term plan, and it is highly dependent on younger Malaysians.