{"id":36426,"date":"2014-11-04T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T04:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=36426"},"modified":"2014-11-04T12:25:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T04:25:16","slug":"iium-wins-debat-alam-sekitar-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=36426","title":{"rendered":"IIUM wins &#8220;Debat Alam Sekitar 2014&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">By Izzud deen Redzuan<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>GOMBAK, 02 November 2014: \u00c2\u00a0The IIUM\u00c2\u00a0Malay Debate team brought yet another honour to the university when they were crowned champion for the 24th <em>Debat Alam Sekitar Antara IPT 2014<\/em> held at\u00c2\u00a0<span style=\"color: #141823;\">Darul Aman Golf &amp; Country Club, Jitra, Kedah.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>IIUM, as the opposition, defeated\u00c2\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM)\u00c2\u00a0in the final which debated on the topic, &#8220;Undang-undang Alam Sekitar Sedia Ada Belum Mencukupi Untuk Menjamin Kelestarian Alam Sekitar.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The championship, held from 29 October until 1 November 2014 and hosted by Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), was jointly organised by the Majlis Debat Malaysia (MADUM), the Department of Environment,\u00c2\u00a0Ministry of Natural Resources &amp; Environment, and\u00c2\u00a0<span style=\"color: #141823;\">Dewan Bahasa &amp;\u00c2\u00a0Pustaka (DBP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A total of 30 higher learning institutions consists of IPTA, IPTS and IPG took part in this\u00c2\u00a0championship.<\/p>\n<p>IIUM, represented by Asyraf Ibrahim, Luqman Long, Ani Najihah and Ainur Rabiatuadawiyah, took home RM8,000 in cash,\u00c2\u00a0the finals trophy\u00c2\u00a0and certificate of participation which were handed over by the\u00c2\u00a0Menteri Besar of Kedah,\u00c2\u00a0Dato&#8217;\u00c2\u00a0Seri Haji Mukhriz Tun Mahathir.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Of the opposition desks also saw Asyraf Ibrahim from the IIUM\u00c2\u00a0emerging as the Best Speaker\u00c2\u00a0to walk away with RM1,500\u00c2\u00a0in cash and an individual trophy.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To add, this is the 7th times the IIUM Malay Debate wins this championship.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Debat Alam Sekitar Antara IPT<\/em> which had been recognised as the oldest debate championship in Malaysia was first held in 1986. However, it became an annual event when in 1991 the government declared October 21 of each year as <em>Minggu Alam Sekitar Malaysia (MASM)<\/em>.***<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_1096.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-36456\" src=\"http:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_1096.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1096\" width=\"366\" height=\"596\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Photo courtesy of Khairul Akhtar<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Izzud deen Redzuan GOMBAK, 02 November 2014: \u00c2\u00a0The IIUM\u00c2\u00a0Malay Debate team brought yet another honour to the university when they were crowned champion for&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36426"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36946,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36426\/revisions\/36946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}