Salt Exhibition at Church of Divine Mercy

The purpose of the exhibition is to share our experiences in joining SALT III in hope that we can create awareness on the realities faced by the Indigenous Peoples particularly the Kayan and Kenyah community in Sarawak, thus creating a platform for people to help the marginalized and getting involve in Human Rights works.

We also hope that through this exhibition, we are able to generate some funds for the Mini Library Project at Long Lawen, Ulu Bakun, Sarawak that we are working on.

The Mini Library Project is initiated and jointly-organized by the participants from SALT III of various coordinating councils, namely Penang Coordinating Council (PCC), Melaka-Johor Coordinating Council (MJCC), Kuala Lumpur Coordinating Council (KLCC) and Kuching Campus Ministry (KCM). It is inspired during SALT III and is recognized by the Malaysian Catholic Students’ Council (MCSC). We, also the members of CSS+SA are the participants of SALT III are representing KLCC.

SALT is an acronym for School of Acting Justly, Loving Tenderly and Treading Humbly with God, organized by Campus Ministry, Roman Catholic, Diocese of Melaka-Johor. It is a school with a space and time for effective bonding amongst the participants, fostering a sense of teamship, partnership and communion among themselves.


The programme is aimed at:
1. Cultivating a growing sense of solidarity with the marginalized in our society.
2. Equipping each participant with the spiral pedagogy of experience and reflection in the light of faith.
3. Enabling participants to understand God’s perennial calling humankind to promote human rights, justice, gender sensitivity in relation to refugees, Indigenous People, women and environment.
4. Empowering them to become committed agents of social transformation.

SALT is held once a year in hope to reach out to the marginalized and the oppressed. SALT I was held at Malacca with an objective to extend their compassions as well as discovering the realities faced by the marginalized immigrants in Malaysia. While, SALT II was held at Ulu Belaga, Sarawak aimed to take participants to explore and discover the social economic impact Bakun Dam construction inflicts on the indigenous community it displaced. Taking the programme to the next level, SALT III was once again held in response to the realities faced by the indigenous people in Bakun. Only this time we discovered the issue was more serious as we got to experience living with the indigenous community at Long Lawen. The people of Long Lawen chose not to be moved to Sg. Asap-Koyan resettlement area. We saw the spirit in them fighting to keep what is left from their real identity, which is the forest.

Calling all interested university student in Kuala Lumpur area to join SALT 4, place are limited.

Next SALT will be held in Sabah on Kaiduan Dam. Please contact Amanda at amandaleonie@gmail.com for more info.