According to Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HLDA), homeschooling is legal in Malaysia. An excerpt from HLDA, "Although the Education Act of 1996 (Act 550) made primary education compulsory, several homeschool parents met with the Minister of Education to clarify the effect on homeschoolers. The Minister stated that fines for not sending children to school only apply to parents or guardians who neither send their children to school nor educate them in any way at home. "