Again: Anti-Malaysia Protest
Here we go again. (I’m getting bored of this)
Anti Malaysia Protesters in front of the State Palace.
(picture from Metro TV News)
Another anti-Malaysia protest broke out in Indonesia. This time, right in front of the Indonesia’s State Palace. (Indonesian version of the White House)
Migrant Care Indonesia, and communities from the Arts and Heritage, held a peaceful demonstration demanding RI President, Yudhoyono, to act decisively regarding the series of maltreatment, and abuse of Indonesian workers in Malaysia.
The demonstrators were dressed in uniforms, such as: nurses, labor workers, and the Reog Ponorogo, to symbolize their message.
They also demand that the President to act firmly against the cases of Creative Arts, and Heritages, that has greatly strained the relationship between the two states.
RI President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is to meet Prime Minister of Malaysia, Abdullah Badawi, later this week during a three-day visit to discuss bilateral relations between Indonesia, and Malaysia.
Quoted from The Jakarta Post, Theo. L. Sambuaga, a deputy of Indonesia’s largest political part, Golkar, expressed his hope that:
“Yudhoyono should tell Badawi the sort of results Indonesians want to see, and find practical ways to end the ongoing rows.”
Fueled by media frenzy, a series of anti-Malaysia demonstrations have been organized in Indonesia.
RI President will receive the highest award from the Malaysian government during the bilateral meeting.
Yudhoyono is just an antic of the capitalist as well as Abdullah Badawi.
Does this kind of protest will end someday?
Yes of course it will end.
When? When a Doom’ s Day arrives…..
Indonesian government must do something about their people
They should not rely on us, Malaysia to provide them with jobs.
We should be able to practice our own rights, our own laws, in our own country.
If their workers are wrong, they should be punished, don’t make it as a big issue…
I wonder why Indonesians hate everything, they hate their presidents, they hate their government, they hate their neighbor and these things keep going on and on and on…
Is that the temperature or the climate in Indonesia that affect the attitude of their people???
or maybe frequent earthquakes or volcano eruptions responsible for this….
Nobody ever said it’s going to end.
To be honest, you are rambling out of context.
This specific post is about the RI-MS cultural row.
And if you are saying about the Indonesian labor workers in Malaysia, you should read more reports about it before jumping into conclusions.
Indonesians (in general) are not annoyed because Malaysia offers them jobs, the problem is, the domestic workers are on constant abuse. The abusers did not even have solid excuses to why they abuse them. Besides, any sort of bad behavior is not excusable to allow act such as physical abuse.
You guys ARE practicing your rights, in silence that is.
If you are talking on behalf of your government, then yes, you guys are indeed practicing your rights.
Indonesians seem to hate everything because news report them.
As I said, press freedom is practiced in Indonesia, and in business context, bad news make good news. That is why bad things are constantly reported. It’s money-making.
Malaysians hate their government too, and many of their policies (like the Ketuanan Melayu) but none of them are publicly advertised, because your government shuns them out of the public spotlight. The end results, are ignorant people like you.
And to say that Natural disasters are responsible for Indonesians’ anger, that truly justifies the line “Ignorance is bliss”.
Good day.
Disclaimer: I didn’t represent nor talk on behalf of Adi Firansyah.Com and Its Network. This is a personal comment from one of its members. I don’t have a personal blog yet but I will consider one after this.
Sorry if I was “rambling” at your website about something that you said not related to what was being talked about. I just try to acknowledge and thanks to you for leaving “unbias” comment at my blog. Although as an Indonesian, you will feel angry with what I’ve said. Congratulations for being professional!
By the way, about my comment before. You don’t have to ask me to read more news and reports about these workers issues because I had enough of it.
Malaysia newspapers almost every single day talk about this issue and I think this situation will never change forever as along as Indonesian government and as well as other neighbouring countries government don’t make any drastic changes to their economy.
You said “The abusers did not even have solid excuses to why they abuse them”, How do you know that? Are you one of the lawyers or the judges that judging these abuses cases in Malaysia court? Have you ever been in any Malaysian court’s sessions? How come you make such conclusion “did not even have solid excuses”. Oh god…. Please! That was very “fragile” conclusion.
Workers abuses happen all the time in every part of the world even amongst developed countries. I personally think that the problem that these Indonesian workers have is they don’t really understand the values and the systems being practiced here.
I mean, if they really understand our law and really understand what it takes to be here, in Malaysia. These abuses will hardly happen. Most workers that claimed themselves as being abused were amongst those that uneducated. This is translated as lack of competency in doing jobs. Because of this reason, the expectations that their employers have were left unfulfilled.
You maybe do not know about the real facts behind those issues and problems because you live in Indonesia. Where the concept of FREE MEDIA / FREE PRESS is widely promoted and be proud of.
It is your “FREE MEDIA” that causes a lot of troubles in our country relationships. All media in any coutries have biases, this is including Indonesian media. Have you ever been in the United States?. You know what, most news media there like to put all the blame for the instability of the world to Muslim people but is that the truth? American people’s brains had been brainwashed with their media which the same thing applied to your country.
The media in your country, which of course bias, like to heat up the issues and I believe (since you said bad news was good for them) that your media had brainwashed your people’s minds; to put all blame to Malaysian people for committed abuses to Indonesian workers which is not necessarily true. Even though it really happened, THEY MUST BE A SOLID REASON WHY IT HAPPENED. If you don’t find the problem, the problem will not come to you.
The problem with Indonesian media is they don’t really tell the truth. Like you said, bad news was a good news for them. This is really a “trap statement” for your accuses.
For them, exaggerating the news means boosting the revenue. Like you said, bad news was a good news for them.
The truth of these issues, of these problems was actually not as bad as what your media had potrayed.
Do remember that I never represented any group of people in my comment. My comment is something personal that maybe even my fellow Malaysian will not agree with.
I know that your are bias when talking about the government of Malaysia because this is what your blog is all about. Your Malaysia links are full of anti-government websites that I personally try my best not to read that.
You even full your blog with all those scandals that for you it means doing “a royal duty”
Like any other opposition parties in the world, they will try their best to put down the government. Small things are being exagerrated, small issues are being hyped-up especially when the General Election is just at the corner. It’s just a matter of GIMMICKS.
I have neutral political views, which mean I will not be on any side of any group but as a Malaysian, I believe that our government had done their best to settle this problem.
I don’t blame my government for making me as an “IGNORANT” infact I thanks them for that. You can’t blame Malaysian government to act like this, You can’t blame Malaysian government to not practicing FREE MEDIA like your country because we are different. The majority race in Malaysia which is Malay made up only 50% of the population.
The May 13th Tragedy left a very big scar to all Malaysians. Of course you don’t really know about this, because YOU ARE INDONESIAN. Do you know that in this black tragedy, two races which are Malay and Chinese keep fighting each other?, killing each other? and even burn each other house?
Certain sensitive issues and things should not be openly discussed and that what makes Malaysia a peaceful country. Which is seem not to happen in your country.
Ignorance is bliss! This wise saying maybe good for Malaysian but not necessarily to Indonesian. As long as our economy is mantained, as long as our country is in peace and successful, Ignorance is bliss! No doubt.
Have a good day my new friend!
Sorry for a few spelling mistakes, I should check that first before posting.
Hope you don’t mind since you understand English better than me…..
Yes I do know the 13th May tragedy, I read the book about it.
I do agree with the fact that the Indonesian media play up the emotions of the Indonesians, but I don’t agree of being silenced either.
And for you to actually read Malaysian newspapers, is in fact laughable.
Have you gone to the alternative website for the anti-government?
Let’s see, Malaysia Today (there’s a link on it).
If you were to go to all the Malaysia’s alternative websites, or other bloggers, they talk more damage to the government than Indonesians do.
What does this say?
Look, let’s not make this an issue of national identity.
Rationally, there are ugly sides to the every government.
I am certainly not one of those Indonesian provocateurs, that generalize Malaysia as whole.
Though I am one of those that is against the BN (UMNO) government. And I think many Malaysians will agree with me.
And you said that the Indonesian media brainwash its people, er.. don’t you think the Malaysian Media is doing more of that?
And talk about solid reasons why these workers were abused, can you tell me why the Domestic House workers were abused?
Bad news make great news anywhere. Even in Malaysia. Other countries tragedy, is one country’s benefits because its people will compare this to their own condition.
I am in no way bad mouthing Malaysia, just the government.
And for the opposition parties to play down the government, of course I am aware about that. That is why they are the opposition in the first place, their ideology lies on the opposite side.
And what system does the Malaysian people practice? What don’t these workers know? Let’s not talk about the criminals, because in any country the system is the same.
When the Malaysian police beat up the Indonesian coach, was there a system that give them ultimate liberty for such act to foreign people?
You need more information on this, go to Malaysia Today, especially those Rela workers.
I totally agree with your opinion where the media is responsible for exaggerating this row, I was never against that idea, in fact I wrote a post about it.
So take a chill pill, and stop generalizing people like the provocateurs.
This Anti-Malaysia protest represents, not even 1 percent of the Indonesian population.
How strong of a representative can they be?
And to boast about your economy, bravo. I agree.
Money solves everything.
But to make it as an excuse to blame other nation for not doing that, is a totally different story.
Besides under Abdullah, there has been a recession in the economy.
Good day
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Did all of malaysia people use that excuses thing to abused TKI?U should realize ur mistake,not to blame TKI,coz no matter what that abused was the bad thing to do.
Agree with prince jake (oot: ur name reminds me of a character of animorphs, jk). I think that there’ll be not enough reason to abuse someone, dont we know about human right? Or at least.. Humanity? Ah, i’m outta topic uh? Well, RI goverment needs to do something. I’m tired of those traffic jams caused by the demonstration. =”=. But at least, watching those actions on tv also means good. That means our press fredom is better than other’s.