It has been two years for the Ministry of Education, Women, Family and Community Development Ministry, and Health Ministry together with the help of non-governmental organisations, to come out with the sexual education guidelines.

Education Minister Hishammuddin Hussien said the National Sexuality Education Guideline would be presented to Cabinet at the latest by the first week of January along with the memorandum and targetted to be launched in February.

"We are faced with various forms of sexual crimes: Internet pornography, incest, pre-marital sex, sexual abuse and harassment, and paedophilia. The guidelines address all these."

"All parties are responsible now that the guidelines are out. All must take sex as a serious issue."

He too hopes that the guidelines are a good start as they would give everyone concerned some idea of the direction to follow.

“I hope that with the cooperation of everyone, the guidelines will help to reduce incidences of rape, child abuse, sexual deviancy and Internet porn, among other things. "

“Everyone should play their part, from parents to schools and the community at large, to educate the young on sexuality.”

Women, Family and Community Development Minister Shahrizat Abdul Jalil meanwhile insists on the importance of a strong foundation to grow our young and future generation.

"It is hoped with the availability of methodology to educate them, they would be able to tackle the problems that they face. The foundation is important, this is what we are providing for, a stronger foundation for our young to face the challenges of the world."

For the time being, things look quite promising for Malaysia to project the country in a whole as a progressive and liberal state to introduce sexual education as part of the subjects taught in school.

It’s also right to say that through this methodology, sexuality will be brought into open in a comfortable manner to public, insteady of being locked in a closet. So to speak that, it’s irresponsible to deprive young people of essential information that they need to know.

However, lest not forgotten the real concern of most NGOS, where they believe teachers entrusted to handle sexual education should be properly trained, especially when teaching pre-schoolers and primary school pupils.

Now it’s your turn to say something. So, what say you? ;-)

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