Malaysia's 'Sensitive Issues'

After the May 13 1969 race riots between the Chinese and Malays, the Federal Constitution was revised to allow the designation of sensitive issues, on which "public criticism of government policy is prohibited" (Brown, Ali & Muda 2004). The issues included:

• The power and status of the Malays Rulers (i.e. the constitutional State monachs);
• Citizenship rights of non-Malays;
• Malay 'special rights' and privileges;
• The status of Islam as the official religion; and
  
• The status of bahasa Melayu (Malay) as the sole national language

The powers of Sedition Act and Internal Security act were mandated by these amendments.

Reference

Brown, G.K., Ali, S.H. & Muda, W.M.W (2004) Policy Levers in Malaysia, Centre for Resarch on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, CRISE Policy Context Paper 4

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Analysis:

With the open information policy of the Internet, it contradicts with Malaysia's 'sensitive issues' which violates human rights movements once the Internal Security Act (ISA) gets involved and has the right to detain without trial.

Is it safe to say the while the Internet's no censorship policy helps achieve our goal of Vision 2020 but it doesn't coincide with the policy levers developed and revised for Malaysia?