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Pulse@FASS, Issue 3, 2020

University of Malaya, Academy of Islamic Studies

Journal of Al-Tamaddun, Vol. 15 (2), 2020, 207-209 
https://doi.org/10.22452/JAT.vol15no2.15	  
	  
Book Review 
 
CHARLES PEMBERTON (ED.) (2017), THEOLOGY AND CIVIL SOCIETY, LONDON, UK: 
TAYLOR & FRANCIS. 206 PAGES. [ISBN: 978-1138630369] 
 
Makmor bin Tumin* 
 
There is growing suspicion on the emancipatory potential that civil society could offer, held not only 
among politicians and businesspeople, but also the state and market-centric social scientists, both left 
and right. Claims that the current debate on civil society originated in the West as a direct product of 
the Enlightenment Project in the 17th and 18th centuries of western civilization is at best only half true. 
The rise of ethnonationalism and populism in many advanced democracies, particularly in the United 
States of America was seen as a result of civil society organisations’ failure to take off in the country it 
first developed. Some issues, as observed by Pemberton, such as the Big Society project in Britain was 
seen as a failure and Theresa May’s decision to dissolve the Office for Civil Society, and setting up the 
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport was seen as a testimony to reject the emancipatory 
potential that civil society could offer. 
 
The attack on the United States of America on 11 September 2001 and the London bombings on 7 July 
2005 were used as a diversion to regulate and co-opt NGOs and social movements under the idea of 
waging a war against terror. The rising suspicion mentioned has diminished both the actual and potential 
social capital for strong and civilized societies, together with the actual and potential religious capital 
produced by religious associations and movements. The relationship between religion and civil society 
had always been debated by theologians of the past, long before the western Enlightenment Project. As 
argued by Charles Pemberton in his edited book, Theology and Civil Society, it remains a widely 
debated topic, citing many works (Stamatov, 2013; Storrar, Casarella and Metzger, 2011; Beaumont 
and Cloke, 2012; Juergensmeyer, Griego and Soboslai, 2015; Fergusson, 2004). 
 
A three-day conference was held in March 2015 at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, 
with the theme ‘Between Theology and the Political’. It was sponsored by the Lincoln Theological 
Institute, setting dialogues on the proliferating field and conceptual resources of political theology and 
current trends in religious and political activism. The book, Theology and Civil Society was a product 
of the conference, where thoughtful ideas from theorists, philosophers, social activists and 
parliamentarians were gathered. Contributors of the book, as asserted or rather assumed by Pemberton, 
guided by the teaching of the church, modeled what John Milbank said, which is that Christian theology 
is concerned with ‘three ontologies of the impossible’: God creating the world, sin and The Fall, and 
the Redemption. Hence, it is the duty of political rulers to promote the common good (or the common 
will) under the law of God. 
 
Benefiting from the works of Arato and Cohen, and Michael Edwards with three models of civil society, 
the main question Pemberton tried to answer in the book is; how do we build politically educated 
communities - communities that are interested and engaged in shaping and managing changes within 
their own localities and transmitting lessons learned in the process? At the outset, he explained that the 
book is about an exchange of ideas over civil society on recurring themes: social inequality and 
exclusion, solidarity and individuality, the church’s public life, the relationship of civil society to the 
state, and the skills to discern criteria that can be used for judging these arrangements in the discipline 
of theology. Theology in this perspective is mostly postliberal Christian. 
 
The book is divided into three parts and all three parts of the book, to my judgment, require three 
separate reviews to effectively understand the richness of the contributors’ insights. In this book review, 
only salient points are selectively chosen in the chapters and will be discussed. Chapter 1 begins with a 
work on the history of broad-based community organising by Jane Wills, who observed that although 
memberships of associations relating to conservation and environment have shown an increase, data on 
political participation at the national scale in British history shows a decline in almost all forms of 
	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  
* Makmor bin Tumin, Associate Professor, Department of Administrative Studies and Politics, Faculty of Economics and Administration, 
University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Email: makmor@um.edu.my. 
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political and civic activities. Although market forces are consistently challenging their charity and 
religious works, for Wills, community organising provides a model and opportunity for religious 
groups, as well as creating a door for direct participation of the less advantaged people to engage in 
self-organisation. In such community organising groups, people can develop leadership and 
organisational skills which are crucial for human development, thus the need of preparation for 
participation in political life. 
 
The issue of anthropogenic climate change requires global attention and intention. Relating to this, in 
Chapter 2, Anna Huxley discusses global religious civil societies and their environmental campaigns. 
Responding to claims on the inconsistency of civil societies, particularly the ones involving liberation, 
theology, and charity, Huxley suggests a renewal of liberation theology, which includes the subject of 
the poor, with inclusivity as a strategy to combat the anthropogenic environmental problem. To be 
successful, a change in praxis at all levels; individually, locally, nationally and internationally must 
always be the top agenda. 
 
Taking the church as a form of an association, Al Barrett, in Chapter 3, drawing from Graham Ward’s 
work on Christology of postliberal projects, suggests danger in reinforcing the expulsions of 
contemporary capitalism. Who would benefit if not the church itself? Al Barret brings forth questions 
such as, “When political theology takes an ecclesial turn, who is left out in the cold?” and, “How do 
civil societies mediate the state and market?” In the following three chapters, Pemberton compiles and 
highlights how the contributors explore this mediation as a theological, political and ecclesiological 
task. 
 
Benefiting from the work of Gillian Rose and Graham Ward, in Chapter 4, Raubach contended that 
despite their claims of political neutrality, new social media forms of communication creates hierarchies 
of power and are thus highly political. Raubach’s argument on new social media critics are increasingly 
available and found in many works recently. In short, new social media fails to offer emancipatory 
potential, which is expected for community development and in challenging postliberalism. Instead of 
serving as a mediator for civil societies, new social media has been used to benefit capitalists and 
nihilists, hence benefiting the state and market whilst destroying social power in the process. 
 
Through her reading on Hegel’s comments in Elements of the Philosophy of Right, in Chapter 5, 
Friedrike Schick showed her concern on the relationship between religion and modern society. She is 
pessimistic of this relationship as she believes that despite religion providing an important avenue for 
the development and further understanding of a society, incidentally, it would result in a freedom that 
would nonetheless produce servitude. This might also imply that Hegel’s understanding of civil society 
informs us that propensity of individualistic and property owning from the civil society process would 
produce both wealth and poverty simultaneously.  
 
With ‘deep solidarity’ of the God of the Israelites, with Moses and Jesus Christ being at the heart of his 
work, Joerg Rieger’s approach to contemporary exploitation in Chapter 6 invites experts to understand 
the importance of the state and market in developing the spirit of solidarity through the civil society 
process. The teaching of the deep solidarity of God – according to Rieger – brings together middle and 
working classes’ share economically, more so than dividing them. The lesson learned from Rieger’s 
work is that the merging of class analysis together with the logic tripartite analysis of the state, market 
and civil society, with the class analysis at its center, is still more than relevant. Moreover, its dynamic 
will benefit all if the church critically interrogates both its own practices as well as others. 
 
The last part of Pemberton’s book questions on how religious capital is as important as social capital, 
as well as how, indirectly, the counter-hegemony approach can promote civil society’s development 
from the richness of theological sources. Responding to postliberal critiques of modern politics and 
economics, Ben Wood, in Chapter 7, believes on a type of liberalism that blends freedom and reform 
with conservation and renewal, asking whether it is possible to find historical examples of liberalism 
with a propensity for tradition, which he sees in Jo Grimond (British politician, leader of the Liberal 
Party for eleven years from 1956 to 1967). 
 
Andrew Shanks, in Chapter 8, puts side by side Hegel and Fr. Daniel Berrigan (an American civil 
society activist and Roman Catholic priest), hoping that he would be able to understand their debate 
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and dialogue on confessional religion, progressive state-led reform, and third sector public 
consciousness movements. Shanks tried to show the two figures’ creative exchange from resources on 
the Christian tradition regarding the possibility of utilizing the human will to control, divide or exclude 
(materialize through propaganda or other means) in order to have a better society. 
 
Embracing the idea of a moral or civil economy, Adrien Pabst, in Chapter 9, anticipated what a 
postliberal economy and state would look like when not only the concept of social justice becomes 
important, but the strong hope for theology is no longer just an option. Focusing her thoughts on the 
intermediary structure of civil society, she believes that postliberalism would mean giving people 
agency in the search for a meaningful life through civil society. Hence, the state and market are 
embedded in the intermediate realm. Pabst believes that postliberalism orients a shift from unfettered 
market capitalism to economic justice and reciprocity.  
 
Politically, this would also mean that solidarity will give people agency, therefore majority politics 
based on the balance of interests and shared identity will triumph over the minority politics of vested 
interests. Readers who have no philosophical and religious training would certainly find it hard to 
internalize the idea in the book, and it is Pemberton’s role to unpack many theories, concepts and terms 
in future editions to make the book more reader-friendly. People of other faiths should take the same 
task of highlighting the importance of religious life as an alternative and compliment to democratic life; 
the way forward for a strong and civilized society. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Al-Tamaddun = Journal of al-Tamaddun, Volume 15, Number 2, 2020

University of Malaya, Faculty of Medicine

Pulse@UM, Issue 3, 2020

Kekal Abadi, Jilid 38, Bilangan 2, 2020

University of Malaya, Institute of Research Management & Monitoring

MILESTONE
@ UM
http://umresearch.um.edu.my
WELCOME HOME DATO’ PROF. IR.
DR. MOHD HAMDI ABD SHUKOR 
13TH VICE-CHANCELLOR OF UM
N E W S L E T T E R
V O L . 8
N O . 4
2 0 2 0
November 1, 2020 - Universiti Malaya (UM) is
pleased to extend our heartiest
congratulations to YBhg. Dato’ Prof. Ir. Dr.
Mohd Hamdi Abd Shukor on his appointment
as the 13th Vice-Chancellor of UM effective 1
November 2020 until 31 October 2023.
YBhg. Dato’ Prof. Ir. Dr. Mohd Hamdi Abd
Shukor is not new to UM. His academic
career begins in 1995 as a tutor and he later
became a lecturer in the Department of
Engineering Design and Manufacture in 1997.
He was appointed as the Head, Department
of Engineering Design and Manufacture in
2003-2006, promoted to Associate Professor
in 2006 and served as a full Professor in 2010.
He was the former Dean, Faculty of
Engineering, UM (2009-2011) and the former
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and
International), UM (2011-2014). During this
period, he displayed remarkable leadership
excellence and successfully held various key
administrative positions within and outside
the university leading to his appointment as
the Vice-Chancellor, Universiti Kebangsaan
Malaysia in 2019.
Congratulations once again and welcome
home YBhg. Dato’ Prof. Ir. Dr. Mohd Hamdi
Abd Shukor, the 13th Vice-Chancellor,
Universiti Malaya
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November 18, 2020 - Six (6) UM researchers
have been shortlisted as "Highly Cited
Researchers 2020" by Clarivate.
The highly anticipated annual list of "Highly
Cited Researchers 2020" identifies
researchers who have demonstrated
significant and broad influence in their field
of expertise through the publication of highly
cited papers during the last decade. 
These highly cited papers rank in the top 1%
by citations for their respected field and
publication year in the Web of Science
citation index. Of the world’s population of
scientists and social scientists, Highly Cited
Researchers are 1 in 1,000.
Researchers are selected for their
exceptional influence and performance in
one or more of 21 fields (those used in
Essential Science Indicators or ESI) or across
several fields.
6,389 researchers are shortlisted in the
"Highly Cited Researchers in 2020" list –
3,896 in specific fields and 2,493 for cross-
field performance. This is the third year
researchers are identified with cross-field
impacts. The number of researchers selected
in each field is based on the square root of
the population of authors listed on the field’s
highly cited papers. The number of those
with cross-field influence is determined by
finding those who have influence equivalent
to those identified in the 21 fields.
Amongst the 6 Highly Cited UM Researchers
2020 are:
Engineering Category
1. Prof. Dr. Wan Mohd Ashri Wan Daud
2. Prof. Dr. Md. Abul Kalam
3. Prof. Dr. Saad Mekhilef
4. Prof. Ir. Dr. Nasrudin Abd Rahim
Cross-Field Category
5. Prof. Ir. Dr . Abdul Aziz Abdul Raman
6. Prof. Dr. Abdullah Gani
CLARIVATE HIGHLY CITED
RESEARCHERS 2020
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The topics covered are:
1. Malaysia Laboratory Biosafety and
Biosecurity Policy and Guideline
2. University Malaya Policy and Procedure on
Laboratory Biosafety and Biosecurity
3. UM IBBC and regulatory compliance
4. Introduction of Biosafety and Biosecurity
5. Fundamental of Biorisk Management
The Biorisk Management Workshop has 2
sessions where the 2nd physical workshop is
to train participants on basic biosafety and
on how to conduct risk assessment.
Currently, only users with basic biosafety
training could apply to access and conduct
microbiology procedure in the Infra
Microbiology lab. Thus, the Biorisk
Management Workshop serves as one of the
training channels before the users can
access microbiology lab.
Prominent professor, Prof. Dr. Ng Kwan
Hoong from Faculty of Medicine UM has
been awarded the 2020 Merdeka Award
(Outstanding Scholastic Achievement) in
recognition of his outstanding contribution in
education and pioneering work advancing
the fields of medical physics and radiation
medicine in Malaysia.
And in the same year, Prof. Ng is also being
awarded the Inaugural Fellow of
International Union for Physical and
Engineering Sciences in Medicine (IUPESM).
The Fellowship of IUPESM is an award to the
most prominent leaders of the Union for
Physical and Engineering Sciences in
Medicine.
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2020 MERDEKA AWARD & 
IUPESM INAUGURAL FELLOWS
INFRA MICROBIOLOGY LAB
BIORISK MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP
October 27, 2020 - INFRA Microbiology Lab in
collaboration with Institutional Biosafety and
Biosecurity Committee (IBBC), Universiti
Malaya has organised a virtual Biorisk
Management Workshop on 27 October 2020
via Google Meet.
The workshop aims to expose research
students (particularly biology lab users) and
researchers to the principles of biosafety and
biorisk management. 
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Stanford University has recently released a
list of scientists that represents the world's
top 2% scientist in various disciplines, in
which 80 UM researchers were featured in
the list and another 30 researchers were
listed as world the top 2% world's career-
long citation impact scientists.
The analysis was conducted using citations
from   Scopus    along   with   data    assessing
scientists for career-long citation impact till
the year 2019 and for citation impact during a
single calendar year. 
The complete list of a total of 159,684
researchers (World Ranking of top 2% in each
field) along with their affiliation, country, c-
score, field-wise rank and total researchers
in a specific subject field has been published
in the PLOS Biology
WORLD'S TOP 2% SCIENTISTS 
BY STANDFORD UNIVERSITY
1. Dato' Prof. Dr. Goh Khean Lee
2. Prof. Dr. Saad Mekhilef
3. Dato' Prof. Dr. Ng Seik Weng
4. Prof. Dr. Altis Lee Ellis
5. Prof. Dr. Abdul Kariem bin Hj Mohd Arof
6. Prof. Ir. Dr. Masjuki Haji Hassan
7. Prof. Ir. Dr. Nasrudin Abd Rahim
8. Dato' Emeritus Prof. Dr. Lam Sai Kit
9. Prof. Dr. Kam Toh Seok
10. Prof. Dr. Mohd Ali Hashim
11. Prof. Ir. Dr. Mohd Azlan Hussain
12. Prof. Dr. Md. Abul Kalam
13. Prof. Dr. Ramesh a/l T. Subramaniam
14. Prof. Dr. Wan Mohd Ashri Wan Daud
15. Prof. Dr. A.S. MD. Abdul Haseeb
16. Prof. Dr. Chung Lip Yong
17. Datuk Prof. Dr. Harith bin Ahmad
18. Prof. Dr. Tan Nget Hong
19. Prof. Ir. Dr. Yau Yat Huang
20. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yarub Kahtan Abdul-Rahman Al-Douri
21. Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Moghavvemi
22. Prof. Dr. Mohammad Niyaz Khan
23. Prof. Dr. Sulaiman Wadi Harun
24. Dr. Ong Hwai Chyuan
25. Prof. Ir. Dr. Mohd Zamin Jumaat
26. Emeritus Prof. Dr. Yong Hoi Sen
27. Prof. Dr. Abdullah Gani
28. Dr. Nader Ghaffari Khaligh
29. Dr. Kazi Md. Salim Newaz
30. Prof. Dr. Mahmood Ameen Abdulla Hassan
WORLD'S TOP 2% CAREER-LONG CITATION IMPACT SCIENTISTS
WORLD'S TOP 2% MOST-CITED SCIENTISTS
1. Mekhilef, Saad
2. Rahim, N.A.
3. Goh, Khean Lee
4. Masjuki, H.H.
5. Arof, A.K.
6. Hashim, Mohd Ali
7. Ong, H.C.
8. Ramesh, S.
9. Sagadevan, Suresh
10. Kalam, M.A.
11. Wong, Li Ping
12. Daud, Wan Ashri Wan
13. Ahmed, Ejaz
14. Chan, Kok Gan
15. Kazi, S.N.
16. Gani, Abdullah
17. Hayyan, Maan
18. Zailani, Suhaiza
19. Ahmad, Harith
20. Hutchison, Charles S.
41. Shafigh, Payam
42. Dahari, M.
43. Ramesh, S.
44. Mokhlis, Hazlie
45. Metselaar, H.S.C.
46. Selvaraj, Jeyraj
47. Kam, Toh Seok
48. Illias, Hazlee Azil
49. Harun, Sulaiman Wadi
50. Lee, Hwei Voon
51. Hayyan, Adeeb
52. Choudhury, I.A.
53. Bakar, A.H.A.
54. Ng, K.H.
55. Wan Daud, Wan Mohd Ashri
56. Ambati, Ranga Rao
57. Zulkifli, Nurin Wahidah Binti Mohd
58. Abdulla, Mahmood A.
59. Khaligh, Nader Ghaffari
60. Tan, Nget Hong
21. Jumaat, Mohd Zamin
22. El-Shafie, Ahmed
23. Chong, Wen Tong
24. Juan, Joon Ching
25. Al-Douri, Y.
26. Lai, Chin Wei
27. Agamuthu, P.
28. Hussain, M.A.
29. Chung, Lip Yong
30. Phang, Siew Moi
31. Yau, Y.H.
32. Haseeb, A.S.M.A.
33. Hasanuzzaman, M.
34. Balakrishnan, Vimala
35. Mo, Kim Hung
36. Shamshirband, Shahaboddin
37. Kamarulzaman, Adeeba
38. Basirun, Wan Jefrey
39. Yip, C. H.
40. Abd Hamid, S.B.
61. Moy, Foong Ming
62. Jalab, Hamid A.
63. Tay, Sun Tee
64. Ling, Tau Chuan
65. Awang, Khalijah
66. Abrizah, Abdullah
67. Lim, Y.A.L.
68. Ahmed, H.M.A.
69. Kiah, Miss Laiha Mat
70. Kadir, M.F.Z.
71. Ali, Ihsan
72. Yong, Hoi Sen
73. Che, Hang Seng
74. Chia, Y.C.
75. Elias, Mohamad Fathi Mohamad
76. Malek, Sri Nurestri Abd
77. Adikan, F.R.M.
78. Lim, Kok Sing
79. Phan, Chia Wei
80. Takaoka, Hiroyuki
SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES
Prof. Dr. Hany binti Mohd Ariffin
Department of Paediatrics
Faculty of Medicine
Prof. Dr. Misni bin Misran
Department of Chemistry
Faculty of Science
Datuk Emeritus Prof. Dr. Norma binti Mansor
Social Wellbeing Research Centre (SWRC)
Faculty of Economics and Administration
ASM COUNCIL MEMBERS 2020/2021
2020 ASM FELLOW
CHEMICAL SCIENCES MEDICAL & HEALTH SCIENCES
Emeritus Prof. Dr. 
Phang Siew Moi FASc
Dr. Helen Nair FASc Datuk Prof. Dr. 
Awg Bulgiba Awg Mahmud FASc
Secretary General
Prof. Dr. 
Shamala Devi K.C. Sekaran
FASc
Prof. Dr. 
Yvonne Lim Ai Lian FASc
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UM EXPERTS APPOINTED AS
FELLOWS OF ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
MALAYSIA (ASM)
Heartiest congratulations to three (3) UM
experts for the recent appointment as
Academy of Sciences Malaysia Fellow (FASc)
in Chemical Sciences, Medical & Health
Sciences and Social Sciences & Humanities
category.
The 3 UM experts are: i) Prof. Dr. Misni bin
Misran from Department of Chemistry,
Faculty of Science, ii) Prof. Dr. Hany binti
Mohd Ariffin from Department of Paediatrics,
Faculty of Medicine and iii) Datuk Emeritus
Prof. Dr. Norma binti Mansor from Social
Wellbeing Research Centre (SWRC), Faculty
of Economics and Administration. They have
been playing important roles and
contributed significantly in their respective
field. 
The appointment was announced at the 25th
Annual General Meeting of the Academy,
held on 24 October 2020. The AGM also
witnessed the appointment of five (5) more
UM experts as the ASM Council Members
2020/2021.
Datuk Prof. Dr. Awg Bulgiba Awg Mahmud
FASc from Faculty of Medicine was
appointed as the Secretary-General of the
council and the other 4 ASM Council
members from UM are: i) Emeritus Prof. Dr.
Phang Siew Moi (Institute of Ocean and Earth
Sciences), ii) Dr. Helen Nair (Faculty of
Science), iii) Prof. Dr. Shamala Devi K.C.
Sekaran (Faculty of Medicine) and iv) Prof. Dr.
Yvonne Lim Ai Lian (Faculty of Medicine).
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October 26, 2020 - We are proud and happy
to announce that UM Zero Waste Campaign
(UM ZWC) – the longest running and pioneer
UM Living Labs project in UM through its
initiative on ‘Empowering Communities for
Food Waste Recycling and Sustainable
Urban Farming’ bagged the international
coveted Education for Sustainable
Development (ESD) Okayama Award 2020!
Our warmest congratulations on UM
dedication to ESD activities.
ESD Okayama Award is an annual prestigious
sustainability award hosted by Okayama City
and Education for Sustainable Development
(ESD) Okayama Award Steering Committee,
Japan initiated in 2005 aims to showcase
outstanding ESD practices in local
communities around the world and as well as
to support organizations carrying out
programmes related to ESD; a key enabler in
achieving Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) by the year 2030.
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EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT (ESD) OKAYAMA
AWARD 2020
With this award conferment that entitled the
winner a total of USD 3000 prize, UM Zero
Waste Campaign led by Prof. Dr. Sumiani
Yusoff and her dedicated team will be on the
highlight to share their award-winning
project at the Virtual ‘ESD Forum/ESD
Okayama Award 2020’ on 31st January 2021.
The award-winning video of ESD Okayama
Award 2020 by UM ZWC is now available on
Youtube via https://youtu.be/-yhYasavI8k
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ITEX'20
UM GOLD MEDAL WINNERS
November 21, 2020 - With the extended
Conditional Movement Control Order
(CMCO), the ITEX 2020 was restyle from
physical to online exhibition format via
https://itex.com.my.  
The International Invention, Innovation &
Technology Exhibition (ITEX) presents an
exciting opportunity for inventions to be
showcased to potential business and
investors both locally and internationally. 
The ITEX competition is open to all
participating inventors to gain recognition for
their inventions as well as to compete
amongst other international inventors for
local and international awards and medals.
the inventions in the exhibition.
In ITEX'20, UM was represented by two teams
(Prof. Dr. Suresh Kumar a/l Govin from
Faculty of Medicine and Dr. Adeeb Hayyan
from Faculty of Engineering. 
Out of the 15 exhibit categories, Prof. Dr.
Suresh Kumar a/l Govin has participated in
the Education category with the project on
"4th Wave Execution Integrity Software" and
Dr. Adeeb Hayyan's project on "Green
solvents for palm oil processing, extraction
technology, Halal authentication and
destruction of hazardous materials" was
registered under the Materials category.
The ITEX'20 competition result was
announce via online on 21 November 2020
and both teams from UM have won the gold
medals in ITEX'20.
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ADVISORS
Prof. Dr. Noorsaadah Abd Rahman
Deputy Vice-Chancellor
(Research & Innovation)
Prof. Dr. Shaliza Ibrahim
Associate Vice-Chancellor
(Research & Innovation)
EDITORIAL TEAM
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Choo Yeun Mun
Mr. Chang Lee Wei
CONTACT
Centre for Research Services
Institute of Research Management & Services
Research Management & Innovation Complex,
University of Malaya,
50603 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA.
Tel: +603-79674651 / 6289 / 6942
Fax: +603-79676390
Email: pengarah_ppp_ippp@um.edu.my
Website: https://umresearch.um.edu.my
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THANK YOU DATUK IR. (DR.) 
ABDUL RAHIM HJ. HASHIM
12TH VICE-CHANCELLOR OF UM


Milestone@UM, Volume 8, Number 4, 2020

University of Malaya, Department of History

Buletin Jabatan Sejarah, No. 9, 2020

University of Malaya, Faculty of Engineering

 Jan-March 2020      Issue 45        Page 1 
 
 
 
Conducting world class research 
BULLETIN 
A quarterly bulletin of AMMP Centre and Zecttron Sdn Bhd  
Industrial Visit to 3D Gens Sdn. Bhd. 
13 Feb 2020 – AMMP Centre’s Head, Associate Professor Dr 
Farazila Yusof led a team from the centre on an industrial visit to 
3D Gens Sdn Bhd in Shah Alam, Selangor. The company is 
among the pioneering Malaysian company specializing in digital 
manufacturing and additive manufacturing technology.  Our visit 
was welcomed by the Company’s Founder and CEO, Dr. Izhar 
Aziz, who took the team on a personalized tour to the design 
studio and production floor. Among the facilities shown are vari-
ous FDM, SLS and DLP based 3D printers available for produc-
tion as well as training. The team was also introduced to the lat-
est product of the company, A Renishaw Metal 3D printer. There 
are not many companies in Malaysia which can provides metal-
based 3D printing services like 3D Gens. At the end of the dis-
cussion, both parties agreed to collaborate in areas related to 
high temperature 3D printing of polymers for medical applica-
tions.  
NEWS IN PICTURES 
8 Jan 2020 - Farewell celebration 
for Victor, our International Ex-
change Student from Liverpool 
John Moores University, United 
Kingdom. Mr. Victor spent about 2 
months in AMMP and UM starting 
from 12th Dec 2019 till 12 Feb 
2020. 
21 Feb 2020 - Seminar on SPM 
school leavers on the exposure of 
student’s life in UM and some tips 
on their future direction. About 25 
of students from secondary school 
in Klang Valley participated in this 
one day program.  
 Conducting world class research 
BULLETIN 
A quarterly bulletin of AMMP Centre and Zecttron Sdn Bhd  
The AMMP Centre was established in 2003 with the aim of strengthening research activities in advanced manufacturing and material pro-
cesses. The team has evolved from a small discussion platform of like-minded researchers to a fully operational research and consultation 
group in University of Malaya. Throughout the years, AMMP Centre has secured substantial research funding and commercialization 
grants from both local and international sources. In addition, the Centre has completed a number of consultation work with the  industry 
in developing customized apparatus and solutions for their needs.. The AMMP Bulletin is produced periodically. It is distributed among 
lecturers, students and staff of University Malaya. By following our quarterly bulletin, you will be kept up to date with the latest AMMP 
Centre news and activities. See our website for further details: http://ammpcentre.com/ or email ammp@um.edu.my. For research en-
quiries, please contact Mr. Amir Farhan / Mrs. Nuramalia at 03-7967 7633 or email amirfarhan17@gmail.com / ammp@um.edu.my 
Japanese Students Visit to UM 
28th-29th Jan 2020  - Students 
from Kumamoto Amakusa Pre-
fectural High School in Japan vis-
ited University Malaya to experi-
ence the University environment 
in Malaysia. Mr. Amir Farhan 
from AMMP led the students on 
the visits to UM Forest at Hulu 
Gombak, Surface Engineering Lab and Botanical Garden. They al-
so had a interesting tour around University and English presenta-
tions to improve their speaking skills. The students had enjoyed 
their experience in UM and will share it with their friends in Japan. 
Industrial Visit from Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Group  
3 Feb 2020 - AMMP Centre received a visit by fellow re-
searchers, led by Prof. Dr. Andanastuti Muchtar from 
Fuel Cell Institute, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 
(UKM). The purpose of this visit is to look for an oppor-
tunity for both parties on potential research collaboration 
in the future. The visit include a tour to laboratories un-
der AMMP Centre such as AMMP Lab, Zecttron Lab and 
Surface Engineering Lab, led by Assoc. Prof. Datin. Ir. 
Dr. Bushroa Abdul Razak, Deputy  Head of AMMP Cen-
tre. We hope that this visit will be a great kick-off for suc-
cessful research collaboration with UKM in the future.  
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