Sinar Project

05/08/2026

The Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) report on Lembaga Tabung Haji (TH) covers the operational and financial period from 2014 to 2020. Copies of the annual reports and financial statements for this period are available on our Malaysian Government Document Archives website.

The Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) report on Lembaga Tabung Haji (TH) covers the operational and financial period from 2014 to 2020. Copies of the annual reports and financial statements for this period are available on Sinar Project's Malaysian Government Document Archives.

22/05/2026

Our first Tech Tarik update, comes with a serving of limau ais (lemonade), covering our open stack local AI setup and usage.

Tech Tarik will be regular tech updates from the Sinar Project team, sharing various tech tips and guides from our day to day behind the scenes civic tech work. Open source applications, server setups, scripts and more.

Our first update, covers our local AI setup experience, from hardware procurement to our open source stack choice.

Our first Tech Tarik update, comes with a serving of limau ais (lemonade), covering our open stack local AI setup and usage

20/05/2026

Our intern Heeho Ryu from Alternatives shares a thoughtful reflection on how civil society organizations can break out of organizational silos and amplify their impact through carefully categorised shared repository of knowledge resources.

He highlights how the Enabling Tech project utilizes a shared online knowledge repository and detailed metadata tagging to make digital rights and development resources more visible, searchable, and interconnected. This approach also helps smaller grassroots organizations stay discoverable and relevant to funders and audiences in today's digital spaces.

Making Development and Digital Rights Work More Visible

06/05/2026

6 month Fellowship opportunities for those with a tech or legal background to work on a multidisciplinary civic tech and digital rights projects.

The Civic Tech fellowship is aimed to bridge the gap between professionals with legal, tech and human rights background through working on a multi-disciplinary civic tech project with Sinar Project. Ideally in the long run, it is hoped that the selected Fellows will contribute and even lead communities to address the issues that formed their fellowship work.

The Fellow will work for a duration of up to six (6) months and be paid up to MYR3,000 per month according to a payment and deliverables schedule to be agreed by both Sinar Project and the Fellow.

The Fellow has a flexible schedule (i.e. full-time or part-time) is able to work remotely, as long as:-

a) they are able to attend online weekly stand-up meetings,
b) be reasonably responsive on our Mattermost platform throughout the fellowship,
c) fulfil project deliverables which includes organizing a roundtable/stakeholder consultation.

Full details and link to application for on our website.

Fellowship opportunities for those with a tech or legal background to work on a multidisciplinary civic tech and digital rights projects

21/04/2026