Mohd Noor Merican, Ahmad Murad (2025) Asean media for civilisational consciousness. New Straits Times, September Issue (Sept). p. 1.
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I POSED the question for an Asean newspaper to a group of participants at the first Asean Civil Society Conference in 2005. Recently, I voiced a similar concern on the glue cementing popular connections and consciousness among peoples in the region. This was during the seminar titled "Asean Futures: Navigating Regionalism, Reconciliation, and Rapproachment", organised by International Islamic University Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur on Sept 2. It drove the point on the importance of popular and civilisational consciousness in Asean. The six decades of existence must go beyond community cohesiveness. The media has been overlooked. A common Asean media (not social media), operating through various platforms, including, television, apart from print — and not forgetting an Asean Radio — that can be accessed online is truly essential. In other words, the Asean media would be a communication instrument, based in any number of member nations, using the various platforms accessible to the Asean citizenry in a common language (or languages) chosen by the group, and understood by the majority of the Asean population. We have to put aside elitism and linguistic nationalism. At the same time, the Asean media can/should also be transmitted in the local languages.
| Item Type: | Article (Newspaper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ASEAN, Political Science, |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CB History of civilization |
| Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button): | International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) |
| Depositing User: | PROF. DR. AHMAD MURAD MOHD NOOR MERICAN |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Dec 2025 09:39 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Dec 2025 09:39 |
| Queue Number: | 2025-12-Q822 |
| URI: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/125653 |
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