FNF Malaysia

Overview of MALAYSIA Projects

FNF Malaysia invests a lot of our resources in providing civic education to the interested university students, academics, youth leaders, NGO activists and government officials.  We work with both the ruling and opposition parties in providing liberalism training workshops for their members and tools for strengthening their political organisations. For example, we organised workshops on political communication on the Internet, political strategies, economic freedom, and human rights issues. We also conduct civic education programmes in cooperation with think tanks and NGOs such as the Integrity Institute of Malaysia, the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research and the Federation of Malaysian Consumers Association.

Workshops for politicians

Political parties are a key component of liberal democracy. The policies they espouse ‐ if they are in power, the legislations they introduce – have direct effects on the lives of Malaysian. That is why Malaysia’s Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (www.IDEAS.org.my) decided to make engagements with political parties a key part of their work in 2010.

Realising that many organisations are already working with political parties at national level, IDEAS took a slightly different approach. They chose instead to focus on politicians at state level, aiming to train them on issues around state-federal relationships according to the Malaysian Constitution.

Southeast Asian IAF alumni meet in Thailand

Alumni of the International Academy for Leadership (IAF) and staff of Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNS) from six countries gathered in the Thai western province of Ratchaburi for a network building workshop between August 18-20, 2010.