Ganyang Malingsia?

Kemaskini:
'Wayang Wong Utan'
Setelah Harimau Muda mengalahkan Garuda 4-3 dan berjaya merangkul pingat emas sekaligus muncul sebagai juara perlawanan bola sepak Sukan SEA ke36, aktivis-aktivis Indonesia pula menuduh pengusaha ladang minyak sawit Malaysia sebagai pembunuh orang utan di Kalimantan, di sini:  
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/11/22/orangutan-defenders.html


------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Salam alaikum, rasa teruja saya semasa menghadiri Festival Filem Malaysia ke24 (FFM24) di PICC, Putrajaya, malam tadi bertukar hambar bila saya membaca kiriman blog tentang kejengkelan saudara 'serumpun' kita di sini:

http://justread-whatever.blogspot.com/2011/11/indonesia-plans-another-konfrontasi.html.

Dalam kirimannya, Jailani Harun membicarakan tentang tulisan Wong Chun Wai dalam pojok mingguannya yang memperkatakan betapa layanan Indonesia yang buruk terhadap pasukan dan media Malaysia di acara Sukan SEA 2011 sesungguhnya memalukan negara tersebut, di sini:

http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?col=onthebeat&file=/2011/11/20/columnists/onthebeat/9941359&sec=On%20The%20Beat

Jailani atau Bujai juga memuatkan klip video dari blog Mazidul Akmal yang menunjukkan para pelajar Indonesia di Pulau Jawa membakar patung PM DS Najib Razak, di sini:

http://www.mazidulakmal.com/2011/11/boneka-perdana-menteri-malaysia-dibakar.html

Bersama klip video YouTUbe yang terbaru itu, terdapat beberapa klip video yang membakar semangat Ganyang Malaysia dan me'rap'kan rasa meluat terhadap 'Malingsia'. Begitu juga dengan 'situs-situs benci', seperti di sini:

http://www.ayamdanbabi.com/2011/01/ganyang-malaysia-afif-sani.html

Apakah para pejuang kemerdekaan dan penyokong konsep Melayu Raya yang telah meninggal dunia, seperti Dr Burhanuddin al-Helmi dan ayah saya, 'berguling-guling di dalam pusara mereka' jika mereka tahu betapa bencinya pemuda, mahasiswa dan rakyat Indonesia kini terhadap Malaysia?

Jika diambil metafora hubungan kekeluargaan, perasaan jengkel rakyat RRI ini persis perasaan tidak redhanya seorang Abang atau Kakak terhadap kejayaan Adik kecilnya yang berusaha sedaya upaya untuk menjalin siratulrahim, membalas budi dan membantu saudara yang kurang bernasib baik.

Namun, walau apa pun yang Malaysia lakukan - membuka pintu seluas-luasnya kepada 3 juta rakyat Indonesia mencari rezeki, menyokong hasil seni karyawan Indonesia - buku, lagu, filem, drama sinetron Indonesia, dst dst - mereka tetap tidak menyimpan rasa kasih dan sayang, walau sekelumit pun, terhadap kita. Malah, seperti mana serang-serangan yang dihadapi dalam sempadan Malaysia, mereka menganggap kita sebagai 'bodoh' dan 'lemah'. Sungguh menyedihkan!

Remembering the Malay Radical Left

Update:
Salute to the forerunners of Malay nationalism and independence movement - Mohd Eunos Abdullah, Yusoff Ishak, Ishak Haji Muhammad (Pak Sako), Burhanudin Helmi, Mustapha Hussein, KAUM MUDA, KMM and KRIS stalwarts and supporters. They are the real home-grown freedom fighters and liberators of their homeland - Semenanjung Tanah Melayu, Tanah Air Tercinta. May Allah bless their souls, pardon their sins and welcome them into His Eternal Garden (Jannatulnaim).
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In light of the recent controversial statement by PAS Vice President, Mat Sabu, that a certain 'Mat Indera', Chin Peng and the CPM were the real heroes instead of the men in khaki uniforms (AND their families - innocent women and children who were burnt alive) who defended the Bukit Kepong Police Station in 1950, I feel compelled to wake up from my 'long slumber' over the holy month of Ramadan and first half of Syawal.

I, too, had subscribed to critical theories and political economic analyses of the media system which were founded on Marx's and Engel's theories on capitalism and used them in studying media ownership and content rather than the so-called 'pro-status quo' positivist theories. 
However, as a Muslim, I would stop short of embracing Marx's supposition that religion is the 'opium of the masses' except for moments when it is actually used to pull the wool over our eyes. And I'll definitely refuse to condone mindless atrocities committed under the guise of a social revolution and an international movement to 'liberate' the proletariats from the bourgeoisie's exploitation, with connections to an external Politburo in Beijing.

(Lately, however, I've grown closer to Allah's Laws on how social, political and economic systems should operate, but that's a topic for another day).

This so-called polemic on the eve of the nation's twin Merdeka-Malaysia celebrations brought back memories of my father and his contemporaries who aligned themselves to the so-called Malay Radical Left movement for Malayan Independence in the '40s and '50s.

Having been exposed to the spirit of Pan Arabism right after the Fall of the Ottoman Empire, my late father bought the notion of 'Melayu Raya' and Maphilindo lock, stock and barrel. He was willing to strain relations with his father (an Old School Ulama') and grow old in destitution by selling his share of the family property to finance an anti-colonial press in Perak, a paddy field in Kahang and a fish/coconut venture for unemployed Chinese converts and Indonesian youths (ex-jailbirds whom he met while spending time in Outram for smuggling fire arms from Indonesia).

He also bought Soekarno's contention about Malaysia as a 'neo-colonial construct' without suspecting that Big Brother could have had expansionist ambitions too. Well, wasn't it the tussle between Majapahit and Sriwijaya which led to the founding of Melaka, more than 600 years ago? Even Manila with her dream of a Greater Malay Nation (Some Day, Malaysia) had her sight set on Sabah.

Just like the elusive concept of Pan Arab unity, Malay solidarity in the Nusantara is often thwarted by conflicting interests and intense power struggles. Forget about regional cooperation with 'saudara serumpun' (regional brethren), even internally the cracks and cleavages are widening with each passing day. 
I wonder if Mat Sabu ever stopped to reflect on the high costs of political notoriety at the expense of Muslim-Malay harmony? 
Still, I'm hopeful that a truly post-colonial Malaysia will emerge, with Brunei and the four provinces of Southern Thailand cleaving into its fold. 

Merdeka, Merdeka, Merdeka!