CHRISTIAN FEDERATION OF MALAYSIA

(PERSEKUTUAN KRISTIAN MALAYSIA)

Address: 10, Jalan 11/9, Section 11, 46200 Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
Telephone: (03) 7957 1278, (03) 7957 1463, Fax: (03) 7957 1457
Email: cfm.exesec08@gmail.com

22 February 2011

Below is a chronology of events of the 5000 copies of the Alkitab (in Bahasa Malaysia) that
has been held by the Ministry of Home Affairs since 23 March 2009.

BM ALKITAB - CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS

23/03/2009 A letter from KDN Port Kelang to The Bible Society of Malaysia (BSM)
informing that 5100 copies of the BM Alkitab had been confiscated for
investigation.

15/04/2009 An appeal letter from BSM was sent to KDN Putrajaya.

25/05/2009 KDN Putrajaya replied BSM’s appeal letter stating the Ministry has
executed its duty to confiscate this publication because it has been found
that the BM Alkitab is prohibited due to its use of the “ALLAH” word
which has been prohibited in Christian publications. The decision on the
use of the word “Allah” by Christian publications is not decided yet by the
court. Thus, the use is prohibited until the decision of the court is obtained.

07/10/2009 A similar appeal letter was sent to KDN Putrajaya.

03/03/2010 A letter from Encik Suniranto of KDN Port Kelang to BSM with reference
to his first letter dated 23/03/2009, is asking BSM to contact him within
30 days from the date of this letter.

A call was made to Suniranto for an appointment but he told us not to see him
as he has no power to make any decision. He has to get instructions from KDN
Putrajaya.

16/03/2010 A similar appeal letter was sent to Encik Suniranto of KDN Port Kelang

05/04/2010 A similar appeal letter was sent to KDN Putrajaya.

06/04/2010 A reply from KDN Putrajaya stating that the matter has been forwarded to
the Division Secretary, Publication and Al-Quran Texts Division, KDN
for their attention and further action.

10/06/2010 A reply from Encik Suniranto to our appeal letter of 16/03/2010 informing
that after due consideration given to our request, the KDN Putrajaya has
made the decision to release the said publications.

BSM was requested to contact KDN Port Kelang’s office to take the said
Publications before 25th June 2010. All the confiscated publications will
be stripped of their rights/ownership after 25 June 2010. If BSM failed to do
so, our publications would be written off according to whatever ways

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 decided by the Ministry under the same Act.

17/06/2010 Upon receipt of the above letter on 17/6/2010, BSM staff contacted KDN
Port Kelang that we would arrange our forwarding agent, Mercury Freight
Logistics Sdn. Bhd. to collect the publications on 21st June 2010 on our
behalf. One staff from KDN Port Kelang told Yus of Mercury Freight
Logistics, that the letter was wrongly written. You can collect the goods
but BSM has to send them back to the exporter.

24/06/2010 Representatives from the BSM, CFM and NECF went to meet Suniranto
of KDN Port Kelang. He explained that the publications cannot be
released as the KDN Putrajaya has verbally informed him that the decision
is to “tolak pengimportan” on the publications.

The representatives then requested a formal letter from Suniranto stating

the reasons for not releasing the publications.

The letter was given which states that the deadline for appealing was 30
June 2010 on the confiscated goods.

28/06/2010 The appeal letter from BSM was sent on 28/06/2010.

Since then there has been no reply from KDN Putrajaya.

This chronology was prepared by The Bible Society of Malaysia – 22 February 2011.