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I should imagine that Malaysian public universities will soon have their own academic freedom committees as a pre-condition for a renaissance in education that must begin in the menara gading (ivory tower).

I should also imagine that Malaysian scholars are spared of any form of standardised tests that will measure and define their intelligence as a basis for promotions.

I wrote in the last column that the Surat Akujanji contains a clause unfit for the mental consumption of academicians especially, and the government 'servant' in general.

In Malaysia, it is stated that if an academician refuses to sign the letter of the pledge of loyalty, two things can happen: he/she will be demoted and in the worst case, expelled from the university. One cannot even ask questions; an oxymoronic phenomena in any university.

That is the regime of truth in which intellectuals are currently living. It is the world wherein the worker is asked to work hard in the name of religion (kerja sebagai ibadat) and in the name of university mottos such as ilmu, budi, and bakti , yet he/she is governed by those who wish to have an easy pass to power. Philosophy, the mother of knowledge, had to kow-tow to pseudo-politics.

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