{"id":456,"date":"2007-07-28T19:00:18","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/07\/28\/dr-koh-rationalise-roles-of-civil-syariah-courts\/"},"modified":"2007-07-28T19:00:18","modified_gmt":"2007-07-28T11:00:18","slug":"dr-koh-rationalise-roles-of-civil-syariah-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/07\/28\/dr-koh-rationalise-roles-of-civil-syariah-courts\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Koh-Rationalise roles of civil, syariah courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Dr Koh: Rationalise roles of civil, syariah courts<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/metro\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/7\/28\/north\/18436507&amp;sec=North\">source<\/a><\/div>\n<p>ALOR STAR: Gerakan feels that it is high time provisions in existing laws and regu-lations were reviewed to rationalise roles of civil and syariah courts to avoid socio-political problem.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>Its acting president Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon said ambiguities in the laws could lead to unnecessary religious conflict if left un-checked.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although the percentage of people affected (in inter-religious marriages and religious conversions) is not that high, the impact is far-reaching.&#8221;&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>He said when the cases were sensationalised, it could lead to fear, confusion and misunderstanding.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to avoid this to maintain inter-religious harmony. Confusion and anxiety can lead to conflict,&#8221; he said after opening the Gerakan delegates conference here yesterday.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>Gerakan&#8217;s legal bureau had set up a task force to look into the ambiguities, he said, adding the call by three federal judges to review ambiguous laws should be heeded.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not calling for amendments to the constitution. We are calling for the review of the existing provisions, regulations and guidelines,&#8221; he said, adding Barisan Nasional could call a forum to discuss the matter in the spirit of consultation.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Perhaps we can also include NGOs (non-government organisations). But we would prefer to discuss in the Barisan first.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Koh: Rationalise roles of civil, syariah courts source ALOR STAR: Gerakan feels that it is high time provisions in existing laws and regu-lations were reviewed to rationalise roles of civil and syariah courts to avoid socio-political problem.&nbsp; Its acting president Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon said ambiguities in the laws could lead to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[92,70,108,133,278],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-conversion","tag-gerakan","tag-harmony","tag-isa","tag-ngo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}