Kuala Lumpur
The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) promotes democracy, human rights, economic freedom, and curbing climate change. In Southeast and East Asia, we have offices in Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta, Manila, Seoul, Taipei, and Yangon. We also work in Malaysia. In Malaysia we work with 12 local partners. Should you have questions or suggestions about our work, please contact us. You can also meet our team here.
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MALAYSIA’S PERSPECTIVE ON THE INDO-PACIFIC
This policy paper identifies and highlights relevant actions and strategies enacted by Malaysia through bilateral and multilateral platforms. These include the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the group of former British colonies of the Commonwealth, the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) and the loosely formed Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) between Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. The latter was bu- ilt upon the Anglo-Malayan Defence Agreement, which was signed on 12 October 1957 and was subsequently replaced by the FPDA. This defence arrangement was agreed on after Britain’s commitment to cease military activities east of the Suez Canal. Malaysia had to rethink its strategic defence and security policies to compensate for the British protection.
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Short Videos on Gender Equality, Women's Rights, and Feminism
Perbincangan mengenai isu gender, hak wanita dan feminisme semakin popular di Malaysia. Namun begitu, ramai orang termasuk pelajar universiti mempunyai pemahaman yang samar-samar mengenai isu tersebut. Tidak semua kursus mengajar isu jantina sebagai sebahagian daripada kurikulum pengajian mereka dan beberapa kursus mengajar isu jantina pada peringkat seterusnya dalam kursus mereka.
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Malaysia Outlook Conference 2023
The Malaysia Outlook Conference (MOC) is a platform for researchers, businesses, experts, and policymakers to come together to discuss and debate national public policies toward creating a better Malaysia while treading uncertainties in the new year. This year, MOC will again gather more than 100 experts. Hosted by IDEAS Malaysia since 2021, it has a strong following among policymakers, policy analysts, economists, civil society, and academics, as a platform to engage in robust discussions on issues.
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Anwar Ibrahim’s first 100 days in office
Germany´s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visits Malaysia. He will meet Anwar Ibrahim, the new Prime Minister. Mr. Anwar leads a broad coalition, which includes previous arch-rivals. He spent 25 years in opposition, ten of them in jail due to politically moticated convictions. As Prime Minister, Mr. Anwar has to strike a delicate balance to secure his and his government’s positions. Tricia Yeoh, CEO of Malaysia´s Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs, analyses Anwar Ibrahim´s first 100 days in office.
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The General Election (GE) Lab: PN BEST
The General Election (GE) Lab: PN BEST workshop is an interactive training program designed to prepare candidates and their election teams for upcoming elections. The objective of the workshop is to review past election results and draft a coalition's direction and strategy, encapsulated by the slogan PN BEST
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#TanyaTelenisa
Telenisa new program #TanyaTelenisa will be aired every Thursday on Twitter Space. Telenisa is part of Sisters in Islam, Telenisa is a free legal advisory service to women and men on their legal rights under the Islamic Family Law and the Syari’ah Criminal Offences Law.
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Perception towards Liberalism in Malaysia 2016-2021
As a whole, liberalism as a word has not reached a wider proportion of the community as only half of the respondents have heard about the term itself. There are no significant changes in this aspect for the past five years as the percentage of the population who have heard about liberalism sustained around 50% except for year 2018 when the percentage of people who have heard of liberalism was at its highest (61%).
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Politik Sarkis: Malaysia Pasca 9 Mei 2018
Mencatat sejarah bukanlah sesuatu yang mudah, lebih-lebih lagi terlalu banyak hal yang berlaku dalam tempoh sepanjang 2018-2021. Buat kali pertamanya tampuk kerajaan bertukar, kemudian penukaran kerajaan Persekutuan tanpa pilihan raya, dan paling penting ialah pandemik Covid-19 datang melawat dunia. Semua ini harus dicatatkan supaya ia boleh menjadi pelajaran untuk masa hadapan.
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Manufacturing Eurekas: Innovating Political Narratives
During crisis situations, populists tend to put intense pressure onto existing structures and look for pragmatic ways to seize power. They fashion themselves as a necessary protagonist that represents drastic change to a decaying system that has failed the people.
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Shariah Court Procedures
A recent report shows that there is a high percentage of divorce cases during the Covid pandemic period which is about 70,000 cases. In view that legal literacy is still low amongst the public, especially among women, it is thus important to raise awareness on the matter so that women could access justice.
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Statistics and Findings 2021
Over the years, Telenisa has received hundreds of cases from the public on issues relating to Islamic Family Law and Syariah Criminal Offences Law. The Telenisa Statistics and Findings aims to provide insight and information based on each year’s cases and trends
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Safeguarding Democracy in the Digital World
20 participants were selected to attend this workshop. I introduced myself as a facilitator to help sort-out discussions throughout the workshop. Among the activities that we do was a discussion of basic democracy (Democracy 101). After that, we talked about how the pandemic will affect our democracy.
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Malaysian Outlook Conference 2022
Featuring 3 noteworthy sessions relevant to the post pandemic times, this event will host a great number of speakers and cover areas of policy making, politics and the economy in Malaysia with a focus on charting the way forward.
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A Day In Our Life
50th year anniversary. When you hear the sound of the fingerprint machine and when the door starts to open you know our day has started. Dark turns into light. And soon other footsteps came in. We would like to take you for a walk into our humble office and show you behind the door. We hope you enjoy our #LifeatfFNF video.
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Open Markets and Entrepreneurship
Hi, I’m Praba Ganesan an IAF Alumnus and I will share my story of conducting a replication program “Open Markets and Entrepreneurship” for Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) in Kuala Lumpur. This follows my attendance at the same-titled lecture in Gummersbach in 2019. 35 young members of SriKandi movement (Young Female Caucus) from PKR attended the 2 days programme. The training was immersive and interactive, because they are the party's future policymakers
