The Relevance of Reserved Officer Training Unit in College Students Committee on the Perspective of Civilian Students

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200921.013How to use a DOI?

Keywords

reserved officer training unit, civilian, volunteerism, relevance, identity

Abstract

Reserved Officer Training Unit (ROTU) is an entity exclusive only to certain public universities including Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). This entity is a standalone organisation supported by the respective universities through Ministry of Defence Malaysia and supported by Ministry of Education Malaysia. Consisted of undergraduate students, these students undergone a series of training to enable them to be commissioned as officers in the national armed force. Since the training of ROTU is compulsory and considering its timeframe, ROTU students are believed to face time constraints and packed schedules which limit their commitment in any other organisations despite their volunteerism. Therefore, this study was driven on the perspective of non-ROTU students on the relevance of ROTU students in students’ representative committee or Jawatankuasa Kolej Mahasiswa (JKM) of Tun Dr. Ismail College (KTDI) specifically. The method used is through questionnaires by integrating answers from students’ session 2018/2019 and below who committed in JKM previously. A total of 39 students who actively joined JKM and recognized as civilians was chosen as the respondents. A set of questionnaires was handed out to the respective respondents on the theme of relevancy of ROTU as well as its necessity to appoint them as one of the JKM. The study found out that ROTU is such a necessary presence in JKM since it is considered as one of the college’s identity. KTDI is the only college that houses ROTU students. Hence, it is important to preserve such symbol. Other than that, majority is in the opinion that everyone should be given equal privilege and no compulsion is placed for the appointment of JKM from ROTU. The study concluded that ROTU still maintains its relevancy in JKM of KTDI.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Muhammad Hariz Asraf
AU  - Mohd Noor Azli Ali Khan
AU  - Mohd Syahlan Mohd Syukri
AU  - Siti Nur Hayati Hamsan
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/09/22
TI  - The Relevance of Reserved Officer Training Unit in College Students Committee on the Perspective of Civilian Students
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Student and Disable Student Development 2019 (ICoSD 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 68
EP  - 73
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200921.013
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200921.013
ID  - Asraf2020
ER  -