KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 23 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim told Dewan Rakyat today that he personally supports caning as a method of disciplining students amid rising concerns over school violence and bullying.
But Anwar also acknowledged the opposition to it, saying he understood why some quarters protested caning.
The prime minister said he personally believes caning could be effective in dealing with mischievous students, but stressed that the method should be “highly regulated”.
“I’ve voiced this before, for me personally I support the idea of reinstating caning (as a disciplining method) but with strict conditions, like not allowing public caning,” the Tambun MP replied to a question by Jelutong MP RSN Rayer.
“Maybe you can cane the student’s hand, for example. This is not to say (teachers) can do whatever they want. I myself was a teacher and I think I have caned dozens of students, but on the palm of their hands,” he added.
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