{"id":50632,"date":"2025-03-19T17:09:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T09:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/?p=50632"},"modified":"2025-03-19T17:09:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T09:09:47","slug":"dap-strengthens-the-role-of-women-and-education-through-the-announcement-of-new-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/dap-strengthens-the-role-of-women-and-education-through-the-announcement-of-new-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"DAP Strengthens the Role of Women and Education Through the Announcement of New Initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the 18th DAP Congress held at the Ideal Convention Centre (IDCC) in Shah Alam last weekend, DAP Secretary-General, Sdr Anthony Loke, announced several important initiatives reflecting the party&#8217;s commitment to its reform agenda.<\/p>\n<p>As a step to strengthen the representation of women within the party, Loke proposed that the DAP Wanita&#8217;s Chief be given a permanent role as a member of the Candidate Selection Committee. He emphasized that this step is part of the effort to bring about change and reform within the party.<\/p>\n<p>Loke also reaffirmed DAP&#8217;s commitment to ensuring that at least 30 percent of candidates in the 16th General Election are women.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is no longer a promise, this is no longer a commitment, this must be implemented in the 16th General Election,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Loke also announced the establishment of the P. Patto Education Fund as a tribute to the late P. Patto, a respected DAP political figure.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50637\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50637\" style=\"width: 284px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/p-patto-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/p-patto-1-284x300.jpg\" alt=\"p patto 1\" width=\"284\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/p-patto-1-284x300.jpg 284w, https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/p-patto-1.jpg 303w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">P. Patto embracing his family through the dark times of OPS Lalang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50636\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50636\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dap_8309-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dap_8309-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dap 8309\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dap_8309-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dap_8309-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dap_8309-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dap_8309-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dap_8309-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kasthuri Patto, daughter of P. Patto sheds a tear after learning of the Education Fund established in her father&#8217;s name<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The fund aims to assist underprivileged students, particularly those from estate families and in the B40 group, in gaining access to quality education. The establishment of this fund reflects DAP&#8217;s commitment to fighting for social justice and education for all segments of society.<\/p>\n<p>This announcement also reinforces DAP&#8217;s ongoing efforts to empower women&#8217;s roles and improve access to education, in line with the party&#8217;s reform agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the 18th DAP Congress held at the Ideal Convention Centre (IDCC) in Shah Alam last weekend, DAP Secretary-General, Sdr Anthony Loke, announced several important initiatives reflecting the party&#8217;s commitment to its reform agenda. As a step to strengthen the representation of women within the party, Loke proposed that the DAP Wanita&#8217;s Chief be given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":50635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[458,475],"tags":[899,3192,537],"class_list":{"0":"post-50632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-affairs","8":"category-national","9":"tag-anthony-loke","10":"tag-dap-18th-congress","11":"tag-dap-wanita"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50638,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50632\/revisions\/50638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}