The faces of #Lawan

MALAYSIANSKINI | Just two days after the Election Commission (EC) announced that a decision to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 would be delayed to next year, a group of youth activists and their supporters ascended upon Parliament - the start of a series of actions that included calls for the resignation of former premier Muhyiddin Yassin.

Through mutual connections, the youth activists came together as Sekretariat Solidariti Rakyat (SSR) although the name itself, according to their spokesperson Mohd Asraf Sarafi, did not materialise until a week after the March 27 18-minute symbolic sit-down protest.

Unlike other similar movements, SSR comprises individual activists with...