Students who took PTPTN loans and have yet to repay their loans could be under tremendous pressure when they could not gain employment with a decent salary. Their frustration could be further expounded when they learned that many BN’s cronies or even ministers owed the government hundreds of million in loan or grant. Some cronies even had their loans and grants written off!
Students’ demand for free tertiary education is a legitimate demand and should be viewed positively by tax payers since the UMNO controlled BN government has squandered and plundered hundreds of billion over the past 30 years. A competent, efficient and corrupt free government would have an effective mechanism and an education foundation to ensure our students especially the poor receive free tertiary education.
The authority and agent to certain political party should not resort to intimidation and violence to stop these disgruntled students and protesters from expressing and showing their disapproval and unhappiness on regressive government policies .