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Launching Ceremony of Malaysia Action Plan on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (MyPCVE)

September 30 All day

Putrajaya, 30 September 2024 – INITIATE.MY was invited to attend the Launch Ceremony of Malaysia Action Plan on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (MyPCVE) organised by the Ministry of Home Affairs Malaysia. MyPCVE was developed to coordinate actions to deal with the threat of violent extremism based on four pillars, namely prevention, enforcement, rehabilitation, and reinforcement.It is supposedly aimed at addressing political, racial, social, religious, and foreign influences that contribute to the growth of violent extremism.

Hisham Muhaimi, Project Coordinator, Qiana Falisha Aufiya Jessica, Project Officer, Eow Shiang Yen, Communications Officer, and Shaik Irfan, Program Associate attended the launch event on behalf of INITIATE.MY as a civil society and non-profit stakeholder.

The launch started with a forum on ‘Adapting to New Emerging Threats of Violent Extremism’ discussing the emerging threats of violent extremism observed and the lessons learnt from the perspective of local authorities and academicians. 

It was followed by a speech by YB Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, Minister of Home Affairs who emphasised the importance of a combination of soft and hard approaches in dealing with extremism and violence.  YAB Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Prime Minister in his opening speech stressed the importance of collaboration and support between countries and between authorities with civil society organisations to address complex security issues. .

INITIATE.MY looks forward to a proactive role of CSOs in the action plan of MyPCVE in order to democratise the security sector. This is consistent with the organisation’s report Special Report and Policy Brief Issue 1 where it is important to empower CSOs and collaborate with them to effectively address violent extremism threats.

INITIATE.MY team at the MyPCVE launch event. INITIATE.MY looks forward to the role of CSOs being included and outlined clearly in the full version of MyPCVE in line with whole-of-government and whole-of-society approaches in addressing violent extremism issues.