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What we stand for

G25 is committed to pursue a just, democratic, peaceful, tolerant, harmonious, moderate and progressive multi-racial, multi cultural, multi religious Malaysia through Islamic principles of Wassatiyah (moderation) and Maqasid Syariah (well-being of the people) that affirms justice, compassion, mercy, equity.

Malaysia is to be led by rule of law, good governance, respect for human rights and upholding the institution of the country.

We aim to ensure, raise awareness, promote that Syariah laws and civil laws should work in harmony and that the Syariah laws are used within its legal jurisdiction and limits as provided for by the federal and state division of powers.

There should be rational dialogues to inform people on how Islam is used for public law and policy that effects the multi ethnic and multi religious Malaysia and within the confines of the Federal Constitution, the supreme law of the nation.

We work in a consultative committee of experts to advise the government and facilitate amendments to the state Syariah laws, to align to the Federal Constitution and the spirit of Rukun Negara.

It is imperative to achieve a politically stable, economically progressive Malaysia and to be able to enjoy the harmony, tolerance, understanding and cooperation in this multi diverse country.

Meet Malaysia’s prolific HIV/AIDS campaigner

MALAYSIANS KINI | Final year medical students in white lab coats swarm the notice board outside the office of Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman, dean at the University of Malaya (UM) Faculty of Medicine.

“We’re releasing their final results today,” explains Adeeba, before going up to individual students to congratulate them.

Long before she was dean, Adeeba, 53, grew up in Kota Bharu, Kelantan and later spent 15 years in Melbourne, Australia studying medicine, practising it and researching infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS.

In 1997, she and her husband moved back to Malaysia. As a general physician at the UM Medical Centre (UMMC), she established the infectious diseases unit there before switching jobs to become dean in 2011.

At UM, her first mission was to completely revamp the undergraduate curriculum, which she has since completed. Now, she and her team are working on restructuring all 17 postgraduate specialist training courses.Adeeba’s penchant for “fixing systems”, as she calls it, has led her on a 25-year journey in HIV/AIDS work.

Researching, fundraising and speaking on the disease locally and abroad, she is also chairperson at the Malaysian AIDS Foundation and vice president at the Malaysian AIDS Council.

Her work has been instrumental in shifting Malaysia’s attitudes away from criminalising drug users infected with HIV/AIDS, and towards harm reduction.

Today, she is a key proponent of reforming existing drug policies altogether, advocating a public health approach that de-criminalises individual drug users, diverting them to community-run rehabilitation services instead.

In her own words, Adeeba tells Malaysiakini how she became one of Malaysia’s prolific HIV/AIDS campaigners.

IT WAS MARINA MAHATHIR, then the president of the Malaysian AIDS Council, who invited to come on board the council because of my clinical work with the disease. I remember Marina telling me how tough it was doing AIDS work in Malaysia because many patients were drug users, and I naively asked why we didn’t have needle-exchange and methadone programmes. She just laughed. I didn’t understand how controversial harm-reduction was in Malaysia at the time....

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