2,443 Youths In Sabah To Undergo National Service
Sunday, 12 December 2004 (Source: Bernama)

KOTA KINABALU: A total 2,443 18- year-olds from Sabah have been called up for the National Service (NS) Training Programme starting Monday.

Sabah NS Training Council member Henrynus Amin said 2,000 of them would be placed in six camps in Sabah while the rest would go to camps in the peninsula and Sarawak.

Three of the six camps in Sabah are new, he said when contacted here Sunday.

The new camps are Sinar Jaya Camp in Kota Belud, Di Bawah Bayu KK Camp in Tuaran and Bagai Budi Resort Camp in Sandakan. The other three are Tanaki Camp in Tambunan, Ovai Camp in Papar and Sansui Camp in Tawau.

This time all modules spanning over three months will be carried out at the training camps unlike the previous training session when trainees spent only one month in the camps followed by a two-month stint at the campuses of higher learning institutes.

The old camps have been upgraded and trainees will stay in barracks and not tents as previously.

To ensure that all those selected to undergo the training were contacted, Henrynus said the NS Training Council had requested the cooperation of the Education Department to get their latest addresses.

Radio Television Malaysia also broadcast the names of those living in remote areas, he said.

With the new approach, the number of those selected but did not know that they were required to come for training would be minimised, he said.