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Adenan urges youths to exercise self-restraint on social media

Sarawak Chief Minister Adenan Satem said youths of today are important members of the society as they are the state and country’s valuable assets.

He said there are millions of young people who will shoulder vital roles in contributing their time, energy and skills to ensure Sarawak and Malaysia can progress.

“There are millions of young people who have the critical role to play in the lives of our young people and can leverage from their ability to develop themselves as future leaders at their community and even at state level,” he said in the text of his speech.

The text of the speech was read out by Sarawak Youth, Sports and Solidarity Minister Michael Manyin Jawong, who officially opened the state-level Youth Day celebration on his behalf in Kuching today.

He said youths can offer so much energy and vibrancy in efforts to achieve good progress and development but sometimes they also have big creative ideas that might contribute to the way the world works.

Adenan said history have shown that visionaries are people who are ahead of time and are always thinking creatively out of the box, so to speak.

“Visionary youths of today have shown us that we need young people who can envision what the future may hold and that we need to come up with solutions in order to meet the future challenges head on,” he added.

“For that reason the state government through the Youth, Sports and Solidarity Ministry has been working very hard for the benefit of our young people whom we hold close to our hearts,” he said.

The state government, he added had always tried its best to help young people to develop their true potentials so that they can make meaningful contributions to Sarawak and the nation.

The chief minister said among the challenges that need to be faced together is the ugly side of Information Communication Technology (ICT) and the Internet which has been abused and manipulated by irresponsible quarters aiming to poison the minds of the people.

“Let us be clear that the government has no issue on the use of internet and social media channels among the young people to contact friends, access knowledge, employment opportunities and entertainment or recreation purposes.

“But being responsible members of the society, young people must always exercise self-censorship and self-restrain in respect of performing their rights over the Internet,” said Adenan.

He said in Sarawak the government has always accepted and acknowledged the differences in opinion among the people including the young generation, adding that the government had never tried to negate the opinion of the young people just because they think differently.

- Bernama

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