Chapter 1 – Report of the Policy, Law and Complaints Group The Deputy Rector (Student Affairs) of IIUM, Professor Datuk Dr. Mizan Hitam accompanying the Commission’s monitoring team during the IIUM Campus Election 2015. On 17 September, the Commission monitored the electoral process of the International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM) for the second time, following a request from students. The monitoring could not be done without the approval of the IIUM Deputy Rector of Student Affairs and cooperation from the IIUM Election Commission. The Commission lauds the IIUM administration for being transparent and willing to cooperate with an independent body to ensure that the IIUM campus election was clean and fair. Following the monitoring, the Commission recommended the following improvements: (i) To make polling stations accessible to everyone including persons with disabilities. (ii) To update and finalise the electoral roll prior to the elections to ensure no students who are eligible to vote are left out. The Commission received similar requests from students of Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) and Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UNIMAP) to monitor their campus elections; however, due to prior commitments, the Commission was unable to fulfil the requests. The Commission further recommends university administration bodies to build trust among students by, inter alia, empowering students to make decisions on issues involving students’ affairs and discarding the practice of stereotypically categorising student groups along ‘Pro-Mahasiswa’ and ‘Pro-Aspirasi’ lines. Although such categorisation are not recognised by the universities, they are widely used in media reports, and undeniably also used by the Government as a yardstick to measure the support of youth for the Government.43 43 “Apa Guna Kita Bermusuh?”, Utusan Malaysia, viewed at http://www.utusan.com.my/rencana/apa-guna-kitabermusuh-1.168381 on 30 December. 89 BOOK-ANR2016-01-latest.indb 89 08/04/2016 3:32 PM