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This blog is purposely to keep the ICT class's works such as assignments, projects, and others relevant ICT issues. This blog is one of the assignment and need to created to get the marks.

Additionally, this blog contain some of the ICT issues and news. Thus, it can act as a communication tool to interact with other users or bloggers for sharing the latest ICT issues and news that occurred around the world. As a consequences, people can get awareness to some ICT issues and can take some relevant and immediately actions to prevent or solve the problem.

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ETIKA DAN UNDANG-UNDANG ICT:GROUP ASSIGNMENT

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KT30603 ETIKA DAN UNDANG-UNDANG ICT
GROUP ASSIGNMENT

Question:
Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission Act 1998

Introduction to Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission Act 1998

The Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 is based on the basic principles of transparency and clarity; flexibility; more to competition and generic rules and less regulation; emphasis on the process; administrative and sector transparency, and industry self-regulation.
The Communications and Multimedia Act (MCMC) 1998 is to provide a generic set of regulatory provisions based on the generic definitions of market and service activities and services. However, this Act is restricted to networked services and activities only.
The MCMC took over regulation of the Postal Services on 1 November 2002. Additionally, it was appointed the Certifying Agency under the Digital Signature Act (1997) on the same day.
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (SKMM) was established persuade to the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission Act 1998 as a new regulatory for the communications and multimedia industry in Malaysia. SKMM was taking the role of promoting and regulating the communications and multimedia industry. Also, SKMM is responsible to enforce the communications and multimedia laws in Malaysia.

Case 1: Malaysia Commited to Net Neutrality : Salang

Malaysia is committed to the general principles of net neutrality and no internet censorship, as told by the Dewan Rakyat. The Deputy Information Communication and Culture Minister Datuk Joseph Salang Gandum said that Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission(MCMC) had been practicing open access for holders of telecommunication license under the Communication and Multimedia Act 1998.
Also mention is that who those who violate the country’s law via the internet, did not contravene the Net Neutrality principle. This in principle was also a principle which was proposed for internet service providers and users, advocating no restriction on content, site or platform, on the types of equipment that might be attached, and on the mode of communication allowed. Also state was equal services and communications would be allowed to the users at subscribed level of access. Lastly, the deputy minister also said that the government would continue monitoring to ensure that internet services would not be monopolized by certain ISP only.
In my opinion, it’s good to practice the principles of net neutrality as user would have to be independent and be responsible for their own act and also its great that this might also be restricted according to the subscribed level of the access controls most probably by the ISP.
Link : http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/articles/20091214155050/Article/index_html

Case 2: Several Blogs Under Police Watch

Khairul Nizam Abd Ghani, or Aduka Taruna is among the blogger which has been hauled up for his Internet posting. Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said the authorities would take action against individuals operating those blogs if they went overboard. Also mention was the Federal Commercial Crime Investigation Department was monitoring websites and keeping track of postings that touched on sensitive issues, such as the institution of the Malay sultans, religion and race.
Khairul Nizam Abd Ghani , a part-time computer technician was put to face court where he plead not guilty under the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 of insulting the Johor royalty on his blog, aduka-taruna.blogspot.com
Khairul Nizam wasn’t the only one who was under the monitoring of the government, there are also several other blogs which was put under investigations. As the bottom line, action may be taken against more bloggers for making uncalled-for remarks on particularly sensitive matters.
In my opinion, monitoring of blogs might be a little strict towards the bloggers as we all lived in a democratic which also means that we should have the freedom to voice out any concern. Having action taken under the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 also shows that the bloggers to have been silent by the government. Although it might be best for the country to prevent riots and protest, still it shows that a voice has been silent and proves that we as Malaysian couldn’t be open to listen to opinions or the voices of the people.
Link : http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/articles/4joh/Article/index_html

Case 3 :Students charged over Facebook posting following church attacks
The Star was published a news of a student charged for church attack hoax on Facebook. Mohamad Tasyrif Tajudin, 25 years old student at the National Arts, Culture and Heritage Academy (Aswara) was charged in the Sessions Court in which he made a post that relation to the church’s attacked on the social media network of Facebook. This post was threatening the public safety.
He was using the Internet application to make a comment on facebook with the intention of disturbing public by using the consumer’s account of Shahrul Maizam. He has written the offending words, which were posted in Malay, translate to read: “Should I throw the petrol bomb there now…price is negotiable” on his Facebook profile over the recent spate of church attacks in the country.
The offence comes under Section 233(1)(a) of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 (Act 586) which can be charged under Section 233(3) of the same Act for making a threat that dedicated to cause and raise the public unrest. The Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 covers the “improper” use of network facilities or services. In this case,
He is faces one year’s jail or a RM50000 fine or both if convicted. The court fixed March 4 for case mention.
Malaysia has seen a spate of firebomb attacks against churches following a December 31, 2009, High Court ruling allowing Christians to use the term “Allah” to refer to “God”. The word of “Allah” is the word for “God” in Malay. However, some in the country’s Muslim community that believe the word is exclusive to their religion and its use by others could confuse Muslims into converting. Local Muslims were upset and angered to the controversy ruling. Some buildings were being attacked including ten churches, a mosque, a Sikh temple, and a convent school.
The government says Allah is exclusive to Islam and its use by Christians would mislead Muslims. In contrast, the Christians said that they have used the word for decades, and it is the only word they have for God in their language. The government has condemned the attacks on the churches and has vowed to uphold the freedom of religion guaranteed to minorities by the constitution.
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) investigate and take action against online users under the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998. Thus, online users should be responsible and tactful while comments or posts online. This case was raised the public’s awareness and becoming a hot issue. Some online users may afraid of expressing their thoughts and feelings within reason. They scared to be offended and insulted of allegedly comments or posting.
Regarding to his post, he was not the person who prepared the firebombs or committed the crime. But he misused Facebook with the intention to cause disturbance. But that posting is sensitive and dangerous.
In conclusion, users who are using the social media network should think and act logically while giving out the thought, ideas, opinions, comments, posting, and respond to any issues that may cause the public unrest and breach the laws. Besides that, government should take an immediately and possible action to stop acts of disrespect and provocation that inflame religious and racial feelings in the nation.

Link: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/1/15/nation/20100115162358&sec=nation

Case 4: Housewife Charged with Offending Sultan

A housewife was faced to a Sessions Court with charges of creating and initially distributing allegedly offensive comments against the Sultan of Perak on the Internet. The housewife, Khoo Hui Shuang, 27, was charged with posting of comments at dreambook.com which has a link to the Sultan’s official website at sultan.perak.gov.my with the intention of upsetting others.
Hence, the charge was put under Subsection 233(1)(a) of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 is punishable under Subsection 233(3) of the same Act and read with Section 32 of the Penal Code. If convicted, she could be fined a maximum of RM50000 or jailed a maximum of one year or both.
In my opinion, the housewife was punished according to the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 as everything was circulated through the internet. As readers to the article, we are not inform of the kind of comments which was launch against the Sultan of Perak. It might be something which could be true or it could be something which is fake. However, if it were true then I would be such a shame that the housewife was silent to protect the royalty of the Sultan and if it were to be fake, then the housewife should accept the punishment as to that she was wrong as well as for her and the rest of the people to learn a lesson as to respect the Sultans in our country.
Link:
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/4/15/nation/20090415155707&sec=nation

Case 5:Legal action against errant private groups and blogger
The ministry would prefer to deal with those private groups and blogger that have violated the laws in a more peaceful way. Although, the ministry has made such statement, they still wouldn’t tolerate with those serious offender and with use legal action against them. Thus, they will organize seminar for journalist and blogger on the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 and Malaysia Communications and Multimedia Commission Act 1998. In this seminar, journalist and blogger will get the information of what they can do and what that they shouldn’t do. This is to let those journalist and blogger know that the administrative will have to take action upon them if the rules are violated.
The steps taken by the ministry is quite good, in the sense that they do not want to cause any chaos if something big happens regarding to the violations of ICT laws, but just organizing seminar for journalist and blogger is not sufficient. In order to spread the awareness of the two laws, the ministry should consider making seminar to public citizen too, so that the citizen knows what they should and shouldn’t do on the internet. Plus the influence from the broadcasting media can also be used as an medium to spread the awareness around the country.
Link: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/4/15/nation/3694117&sec=nation

Case 6:Student Charged Over Facebook Comment
A student has been charged for posting comment in an attempt to create public unrest. The student was charged for causing a threat with the intention of creating public unrest under section 233(1)(a) of the Communications and multimedia Act 1998 (Act 586). He will face a year’s jail or a RM50, 000 or both if he is found guilty.
The student definitely has made a very big mistake by posting aggressive comment on the internet; this is another example that we can see where people have misused the internet to create chaos in the country. The punishment that the student will receive if he is convicted is quite sufficient and as a warning to the others internet user not to misused the internet to disrupt the country.
The government should make more public awareness about the ICT laws in Malaysia, so that such incident would not happen. For the citizen, they should have understand that there are always laws to obey, and they need to carefully choose the message that they wants to spread to the public through internet.
Link: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/1/16/nation/5487268&sec=nation

Case 7:Man Posted Doctored Photos of Nik Aziz

“Man Posted Doctored Photos of Nik Aziz” wrote by Farik Zolkepli is one of news in the The Star online. The Star is the first Malaysian newspaper to launch it World Wide Web edition and at the same time it was the third in Asia. From the news, it reported that a man had been arrested because he had posted doctored picture of Menteri Besar Kelantan, Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat. Doctored picture is a falsity or change of picture in such a way to make favorable to one.

The man 44 years old had post the doctored picture on a blog in internet. The doctored picture contained a picture where Menteri Besar Kelantan, Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat being sodomized by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. The man that lives in Johor had been handed over to Kelantan commercial crime unit for investigations. The case had been investigated under the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998. The impact from his action caused a stir among the PAS leaders and supporters in Kelantan.

Blog is a personal online journal or diary that can be found on Web. It can be used by anybody to express their opinion and shared it with other people. The misused of blog become serious in Malaysia. The case above is a second case that happened this year. Usually, the cases that related to blog is involving famous people especially people from the politics arena.

From this article, the most important thing that had been learned is we cannot publish story of other people that might hurt them mentally. This is because they can bring it to the court. The involved person has the right to fine us for what we had done. The awareness of ethics among the bloggers still lack. This can be proved because we always heard the news of blogger being caught for posted something sensitive that hurt someone else.

One solution that can be practice in order to prevent this situation from happened is by exposed bloggers to the ethics education. Since internet became an essential daily nowadays, the government can apply the ethics education inside the Pendidikan Moral subject in schools. Student that did not take the subject in school, they can be exposed through other alternative such as co-curriculum.

Link : http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/5/20/nation/20090520120053&sec=nation

Case 8:Obscene comment against Sultan: June 19 mention date

“Obscene comment against Sultan: June 19 mention date” had been published by The Star online on Wednesday May 20 2009. It is other article that related to the misused of internet. A couple had been alleged to have committed the obscene comment against Sultan Perak.

The couple is charged under Section 292(a) of Penal Code and also an alternative charge under Section 233(3) of the Communication and Multimedia Act 1998. This couple is said to have an intentionally to hurt other’s feelings. They had been given a chance to submit preliminary objections. According to the Act, if convicted they can be jail sentence up to five years or fine of up to RM50 000.

From the article it reminded us to use words carefully so that it will not hurt other person’s feeling. Sometimes we did not realize when we say something that can make other feel bad. But in internet, we can filter our comments first before published it through the internet. Sensitive issues such as religion and belief should not being discuss in the internet because it can lead to misunderstood. And worst thing might be happen.

The used of internet to express unsatisfied feeling should be used wisely. This is to prevent ourselves being charged according to the law. The Communication and Multimedia Act 1998 of Malaysia plays very important roles in order to protect individual right in term of ICT usage.

Link: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/2/10/nation/5647082&sec=nation

Case 9:Suhakam: Ratify protocol against child porn

Two optional protocols are ready to push by The Human Rights Commission (Suhakam). The first protocol is about children pornography, trafficking of children and children prostitution and the second protocol is relating to children caught in armed conflict. Commissioner Dr. Raj Abdul Karim said that the government should have no problem against second protocol because the situation is not popular in Malaysia. However, the first protocol must be acknowledged and define by government to ensure children away from pornography. Children pornography should be acknowledged since it have not specified mentioned in the Penal Code and the Communication and Multimedia Act 1998. In this case, Malaysia should follow other countries to creates own laws to protect children. Nine years old children are investigated to view pornography materials while their parents are at work. The invention of today’s technology also make easy to communicate and exchange pornography material through mobile phone. She said that discussions with government agencies should be hold to resolve these problems.
Children pornography problem should be emphasized and specified laws should be created by government to protect children. Punishment should be given to underage child who viewing pornography. This is very important to restrict children from viewing pornography. Policemen are empowered to check and catch underage children for those having pornography materials in their mobile phone. Besides that, parents should be sensitive towards these issues to control their children from being involved in pornography.
Link : http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/92100

Case 10:MCMC tells Malaysiakini: Take down videos

The “Temple-demo: Residents march with cow’s head” and “Hisham: Don’t blame cow-head protesters” videos uploaded by news portal Malaysiakini in their website were requested to be removed due to the provocative and offensive contents in the video. These videos contain offensive contents with the intent to annoy any person, especially Indians and it is prohibited under Section 211/233 of the Communication and Multimedia Act 1998. These videos believed have truly provokes Indians where villagers had stir their racial emotion by parade a severed cow’s head, which considered sacred by Hindus, on the city streets. They oppose the relocation of the Sri Mahamariamman Temple to Section 23 from Section 19, claiming the area is mainly occupied by Malay-Muslims.
MCMC has received numerous complaints about these videos being posted by Malaysiakini and Youtube and it has a power to regulate matters relating to the communication and multimedia activities. The case arises when residents of Section 23 in Shah Alam made paraded a severed cow’s head on the city streets to protest the proposal to relocate a Hindu temple to their neightbourhood. In worse, some of the protesters were also seen splitting and stepping on the cow’s head, while at the same time threatening to “shed blood”. These issues must be resolved as fast as possible because it against concept 1 Malaysia. However, these issues believed can be resolved quickly if it can be done with both sides understanding each others.
Link : http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/112111
Conclusion
Based on the article which was review, we could see that many of those cases happened due to sensitive issues which was spread through the online media. As all of the actions are normally taken by the authorities after proper and detailed monitoring of the online media such as through blogs, online social community and websites. Besides that, it also shown that these comments, news or whatever kind of opinion which violates the Communication and Multimedia Act 1998 would have the person with seriously chargers.
Lastly, it was also learnt that even though the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 is a localize law, it has it’s pros and cons to it as well. As an example the pros to it is that any kind of riot, protests, fake information and etc could be stopped at once and the person behind it could be punish. However the cons to it is that enforcement of such rule could lead to dissatisfaction of the people where some might feel that their voice has been robbed by the government and hence they lose their freedom of speech.

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This is a system for school of SKTM to keep all the lecturers details R&D in ICT sector into a profile system. This well-organized system can help and bring convenience to the lecturers to keep, search for the particular lecturer report of R&D, and can known well on which research are already be done. It is more reliable and efficient compared to the older method of file system.

Moreover, lecturers can search for the topics of journals, proceedings, and publication of chapters of books each others. Thus, lecturers can share their knowledge and can improve their understanding on related research topics.

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My Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Personal details

Name : Loh Meng Fun
Date of birth : 19/12/1987
Place of birth : Perak
Age : 21 years old
Gender : female
Nationality : Malaysian
Religion : Buddhist
Home address : 217, kampung Sira, 33400, Lenggong, Perak
Phone number : 016-5452012
Email address : mengfun1219@hotmail.com

Education

SMJK(C) Yeong Hwa Kindergarden, Standard 1 – Standard 6
SMK Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Form 1 – Form 3
SMK Dato Ahmad Form 4-Form 5
SMK Tsung Wah Form 6
University Malaysia Sabah Undergraduate of network and system management

Work experience

Part-time tuition teacher
Justin Shoes Store sales promoter
Timberland sales promoter
waitress
Interests
Travel, listen music, watch movies, surf internet…

Skills

Computing knowledge
C programming
Java
Visual C++

Language Spoken

English, Chinese (Mandarin, Kantonis), Malay, Japanese language

Talents

Spoke some simple Japanese language…

Having some knowledge on computing…

Having some skills on cooking…

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Personal details

Name : Loh Meng Fun
Date of birth : 19/12/1987
Place of birth : Perak
Age : 21 years old
Gender : female
Nationality : Malaysian
Religion : Buddhist
Home address : 217, kampung Sira, 33400, Lenggong, Perak
Phone number : 016-5452012
Email address : mengfun1219@hotmail.com

Education
Undergraduate of network and system management in UMS

Work experience
Part-time tuition teacher, sales promoter, waitress

Interests
Travel, listen music, watch movies, surf Internet…

Skills
Computing knowledge, Japanese knowledge …