Letters - Major errors in Standard Six History textbook

I WOULD like to draw the attention of the Education Ministry to numerous factual and spelling errors (besides the now famous erroneous location of Malacca in the map on page 8) in the recently published Standard Six History textbook – a shortcoming which has, unfortunately, been consistently repeated since 1989.
Among the major factual errors are:
> Umno (United Malays National Organisation) is referred to as United Malays Nation Organisation;
> MIC (Malayan Indian Congress) is referred to as Malayan Indian Assosiation;
> Tunku Abdul Rahman proposed the formation of the Federation of Malaysia in 1963; and
> One of the roles of the Malaysian prime minister is to implement all national policies (actually done by the public servants; the prime minister is head of government).
Another major blunder (page 69) is the erroneous depiction of a Sikh couple. I consulted Sardar Autar Singh, secretary-general of the Coalition of Malaysian Sikh Organisations, who concurred with me on this terrible blunder. The man's turban is uncharacteristic of that typically worn by a Sikh. He is also dressed in a dhoti, which is not part of a Sikh man's attire. The woman's features seem to be more that of a Mongoloid. Worse still, her dupatta (scarf) is not one that is typically worn by Sikh women.
Among the spelling errors are "assosiation" (refer to the MIC error above), "Hussien Onn" and "Vasakhi".
The textbook wrongly refers to Taoism as "Tao" instead of the correct term, "Taoisme". Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka apparently has introduced (page 69) a new Malay word i.e. "turban" (instead of "serban" – what a horrendous blunder which reflects poor editing).
Finally, the poor editing is also reflected in wrongly using full stops for captions with incomplete sentences.
Dr Ranjit Singh Malhi
Kuala Lumpur