KUCHING: Contentment with the current political situation in the country might have contributed to the majority of youths not bothering to register as voters.
Assistant Minister of Youth Development Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah who said this yesterday, believed apathy might play a part too.
“This was probably down to the fact that youths might feel content with the existing political scenario or just do not care,” he told The Borneo Post yesterday.
The Asajaya assemblyman was responding to the issue that youths made up the majority of the more than 400,000 people in the state yet to register.
In other countries, youths were the ones in the forefront of the political struggle because they felt ‘victimised’ by the existing system or government.
When asked whether it was necessary for the government to come up with some sort of intervention to get youths registered as voters, Karim said democracy was about freedom of choice. Not wanting to vote or register as voters are choices.
“Our present system does not make it mandatory for all citizens to vote or register as voters.
