{"id":87020,"date":"2015-08-05T11:10:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T03:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=87020"},"modified":"2015-08-05T20:15:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T12:15:52","slug":"13th-idc-offers-stage-for-future-leaders-to-sharpen-their-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=87020","title":{"rendered":"13th IDC offers stage for future leaders to sharpen their skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Izzud deen Redzuan<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GOMBAK, 4 August 2015: The long-awaited debate tournament in Malaysia, the 13th\u00c2\u00a0IIUM Inter-school Debating Championship (13th\u00c2\u00a0IDC) will be held here from 7 until 11 August to enhance public speaking skills among its participants.<\/p>\n<p>This event\u00c2\u00a0aims\u00c2\u00a0at creating awareness among youths on the socio-economic issues affecting Malaysia and the world in general through various motions while promoting values\u00c2\u00a0of the Garden of Knowledge and Virtue to the participants.<\/p>\n<p>Organised by the IIUM World Debate and Oratory Centre (IWON) in collaboration with the Ministry of Education Malaysia (MOE), this year&#8217;s championship features 570 debaters from 190 teams; 69 teams in Malay language category, 66 teams for English and 55 for Arabic.<\/p>\n<p>The champion from each category will take home MYR3,000, followed by the runner-up with MYR500, and MYR500 for the semi finalist.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from that, another MYR500\u00c2\u00a0prize money will also be given to the overall best speaker and final&#8217;s best speaker, each.<\/p>\n<p>The 13th IDC\u00c2\u00a0is expected to display prominence\u00c2\u00a0that was showcased\u00c2\u00a0in the event&#8217;s previous series.<\/p>\n<p>Through this competition it can\u00c2\u00a0strengthen the bonds between debaters and share experiences among them while introducing the distinct features of Asian\u00c2\u00a0Parliamentary Format.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Sekolah Menengah Agama Al-Islah emerged as the champion for the Malay language category, while Sekolah Sultan Alam Shah won the English language category and Sekolah Menengah Islam Hidayah won the Arabic language category.***<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: For more details you may follow the official accounts of 13th IDC on <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/iiumidc\/timeline\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/span>, Twitter <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IIUM_IDC\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">@IIUM_IDC<\/span><\/a><\/span> and Instagram <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/D9jIl2w23E\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">@iium_idc\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Izzud deen Redzuan GOMBAK, 4 August 2015: The long-awaited debate tournament in Malaysia, the 13th\u00c2\u00a0IIUM Inter-school Debating Championship (13th\u00c2\u00a0IDC) will be held here from&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":87021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/q.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87020"}],"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=87020"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87361,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87020\/revisions\/87361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}