'Academia has role to play in stopping bauxite pollution'

comments     Geraldine Tong     Published     Updated

One of the roles of the academia is to stand up when they see injustices being done, University Technology Malaysia (UTM) professor Maketab Mohamed said today.

"When I see an injustice being done, then I have to do something.

"I know they say they'll have a file on me, but so what? What did I do wrong?" he said at a forum on bauxite mining at Universiti Malaya in Kuala Lumpur today.

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