Hi everyone! My name is Khairul and I'm from Curtin Sarawak Campus. So I've been reading some of the posts here and I see that most of you had a really good time interning at your organisation. Good stuff.
Let me tell you my experience so far. It took me almost half of the semester to finally get an intern. Somehow, it was really hard for me to locate an organisation that I could intern for. Well, I found an organisation (well, more like a ministry) and its been almost 3 weeks now since i started.
I'm currently interning at the Ministry of Information in my country (Malaysia) and I have to say, it is a little different from working under a private corporation. Everything they do seems to be 'confidential' and some of the tasks that I think would be a good experience for me, I am not allowed to do. To give you a general idea of what the Department of Information is, basically this department act as a public relation department for the government, which also mean that its a public relations department for the WHOLE COUNTRY! Scary..
My first week was almost hell. I didn't know what I should do. One thing that is different working for the Department of Information (which is under the Ministry of Information), we have no authority to plan out our own strategies and tactics to carry out our own PR tasks. Most of the tasks given to us are orders from other government Ministries so certain days, we won't have much work to do.
What we do alot here though is monitoring public opinions regarding government policies, vision and ideologies and also any issues that the public is currently facing. My line of job requires me to interact with the public alot and find out any issues that they have. These issues then will be sent to the headquarters in the form of written report and filed so that appropriate action can be taken.
The one thing that they did not utilise for monitoring is the Internet! Which surprises me. I feel that there are lots of issues being discussed in our local forums that could be useful as inputs for the government.
Well I think that's all I'm going to write for now. Will update more next time. Good luck guys!
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