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DS 3009: ETHICS & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES (Individual Report)

Nilai Future Leaders Camp Report
Last Saturday, Nilai University has organized Future Leaders Camp in collaboration with
NAM Institute for the Empowerment of Women (NIEW). This event was held from 15th
17th November 2014 at Nilai Springs Resort Hotel and was greeted warmly by many
participants and organizers from both public and private institutions of higher education
all over the country. Moreover, this event also received strong supports by the Ministry
of Education Malaysia. Unlike previous years, this year guest of honor is YB Dato Sri
Rohani Adbul Karim who is our beloved Minister of Women, Family & Community
Development.
The theme for this year Future Leaders Camp is Innovation in Leadership: A focus on
Gender Issues which emphasized on gender issues and participants will exposed to
seminars, workshops, talks and parliamentary-style debate. For instance, YBhg. Prof.
Datuk Dr. Megat Burhainuddin Bin Megat Abdul Rahman who is the Vice Chairman of
Nilai University stated that this camps objective is enhance the participants exposure
towards key areas which will leads them to acquiring mastery of leadership skills.
Likewise, the participants could understand leadership, then developing leadership skills
and therefore enhancing them to becoming a leader in the future. Based on quote from
Peter Drucker, it also shown that Effective leadership is not about making speeches or
being liked, leadership is defined by results not attributes
Besides that, the event also has invited many high profile speakers such as YBhg. Dato
Saifuddin Abdullah. YBhg. Dato Saifuddin Abdullah is the CEO of Global Movement of
Moderates (GMM) as well as the Chairman of Youth Academy and former Deputy
Minister of Higher Education. Moreover, he is a progressive politician who advocates the
idea of New Politics, youth empowerment and social entrepreneurship. He is also actively
promoting debate culture and basketball. Before becoming a politician, he was President
of the Malaysian Youth Council; Member of the United Nations Secretary Generals High
Level Panel on Youth Development; Consultant of the Economic and Social Commission
for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP); and a student activist. He was also a businessman,
university administrator, teacher and editor.
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Apart from that, YBhg. Dato Saifuddin Abdullah also is a prolific writer, who has
published six books; one of which, New Politics (2008), is a best seller and reference of
analysts on Malaysian politics. He is columnists of Sinar Harian, The Edge Malaysia,
Oriental Daily, See Hua Daily Sarawak and Makkai Osai. Dato Saifuddin Abdullah
emphasizes on the main issues which clouding each and every university in Malaysia;
which is the issues of quality. Quality as it seems easy to understand but is actually hard
to define. It took a lot of things and issues into considerations; such as academic freedom;
since the students and as well as the university administration ease of movement today is
quite limited. He also shares about the experience when he was a student activist,
university administrators and as well as the Deputy Minister of Higher Education as these
experiences made him to have a compassion feeling towards todays university students.
As for ending of his speech, he also encourage that we should learn to be a leader instead
a follower as we could gain more various types of knowledge and experiences and these
factors will enhance us to become a better leader in the future.
As for the closing ceremony on Monday 17th November 2014, Dato Sri Rohani talks
about Social Welfare Department (JKM) who operates to taking care their disabled
(OKU) children and encourages parents who have problem taking care of their disabled
children to put their children under the JKMs custody as they will receive appropriate
treatment and rehabilitation. By the way, she also mentioned that if the parents didnt
provide a good living for their children, they will be charged under lawsuit. She also
strongly insists that OKU also have rights to be taking care of based on case of
Lolanopita Sadi.
After that, Vice Chansellor of Nilai University Prof. Datuk Dr, Megat Burhainuddin
applauded and praised the participants for their great responses and active involvement
during the event. Also, he quite pleased with the participants high level of awareness on
current issues and hoped that they have benefits much from this future leader camp. As a
conclusion, the organizers of this event is looking forward for next year as it receive
overwhelming positive responses compared to previous years besides hoping to making it
an even bigger event next year because even Ministry of Higher Education had

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proclaimed the camp a great success and claimed that this kind of event should be
organize more often in university level.

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