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Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil has urged for Socso contributions for all media practitioners, including stringers. – Bernama pic, January 6, 2024
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Fahmi pushes for Socso contributions for media practitioners, including stringers

Comms minister says these benefits, including for death and disability, are important for full-timers, part-timers, freelancers

Bernama
Updated
6:58 PM MYT

 

KUALA LUMPUR – Social Security Organisation (Socso) contributions for media practitioners, especially for stringers (part-time or freelance journalists) need to be expedited, Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil said today. 

He added that this would allow them to obtain benefits from Socso, including death and disability benefits, that would offer better protections. 

“We need to champion and ensure that media friends – both full-time and part-time – become contributors, as without them we will be without news,” he said, adding that he had asked several media practitioner associations, including the Journalists’ Association and the Malaysian Entertainment Writers Association, to discuss and seek a solution to the matter. 

He made these comments to reporters in the presence of KRU Entertainment president and chief executive officer Datuk Norman Abdul Halim and Lembah Jaya assemblyman Syed Ahmad Syed Abdul Rahman Alhadad, who is also known as the rapper Altimet. 

They were visiting the family of KRU Media-owned Boom Malaysia and Jurnal Malaysia entertainment journalist, Siti Nor Hafiza Kamarudin, who died in London on December 28, at her home in Ampang following her funeral today.  

Her mother, Siti Nooriah Hasan, 69, said that she has accepted the loss of her eldest child, who she described as a filial daughter, who did her to ensure her parents were well taken care of. 

“Every year during Eid, she would always come back to help with preparations and also tend to other related matters, so we will definitely miss her when Eid comes,” she said. 

Siti Nor Hafiza’s colleague during their time at Astro Gempak, Asraf Aided, who also paid a visit to the grieving family, said that Siti Nor Hafiza was a very cheerful friend who always made people around her happy. 

“She was a strong fighter and never gave up hope, she never showed she was in pain even though we could see she was weak and not as healthy,”  the Suria7 entertainment magazine journalist added. – January 6, 2024

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