The reform of education policy in Malaysia has brought a lot of changes in many ways.
One of important result from the education reform can be seen in term of “
Islamization of
knowledge” within the framework of Malaysia.
The Islamization of education can be measured as the strongest impact of reformation process of education since it totally offer new paradigm of learning process. Here, we are not only talking about producing the
“
As
”
students but rather viewing the learning process and academic institution as the mechanism of human capital development. The nation building is the main essence of it, in order to produce the eligible apprentices for this country it lead to the tremendous process of reforming the bases of it which is the education. Thus, it can be concluded by saying that the decision made by the Malaysian government to reform the education system would be rationally understood as one of the political
and economical strategy for the country’s future. By having a strong foundation of Islamic based
education, it directly helps to ensure that the country always will be lead under a Muslim leadership. It is a strong statement that makes some people feels uncomfortable and it is no doubt a sensitive issue. However, if we read between the lines of the reformation of education process in Malaysia, you may agree with me. In other perspective, the reformation of education is a must
action to be done in order to build the “Malaysia” identity among the Malaysians.
As the Malay
proverb says “
melentur buluh biarlah dari rebungnya
”.