Minor tremors felt here at Cendikiawan apartment block at Uniten Putrajaya campus around 6:20pm. I was reading the Indonesian claim over gamelan and ketupat when it happened.
Sigh.. Tak habis-habis.
It seems like the heritages (and also food) claim has become a hot trend here. Singapore-Malaysia over chilli crabs, nasi lemak & hainanese rice and Indonesia-Malaysia over pendet, gamelan, ketupat, & batik.
Enough la, we came from the same roots anyway, why must we fight over small things like that? We Malaysians have our version and they (Indonesia) have theirs. Scared that tourists will flock to the opposite side? I don’t really listen to this kind of thing normally but the hatred has gone too far. Tahap menyampah.
Over calling names like Malingsia (Maling = thief) and Indon. The truth is we Malaysians are not insulted at all. Like I said earlier, no point to fight over little things like this. I’ve heard that our students at Indonesia were bullied during their orientations i.e they were forced to say “Malingsia pencuri etc” I was like WTF? We allow them to come, get shelter and jobs, and this is what we get in return? Read what I found while surfing:
| It's really immature to claim arts that our ancestors shared as solely theirs. I mean, look at Malaysia and Singapore. Singapore basically inherit every single traditional culture from Malaysia and yet they claimed that it's originally comes from Singapore - the best proof is a travelling program at Asian Food channel. It's clearly written at the signboard "Ampang something2" (dont remember la, somekind of food), yet they dare to say ‘only in Singapore'. This is only one of the many things Singapore claim to own when it's actually known to come from Malaysia. And did Malaysia call bad names to Singapore? NO! It's such a waste of time. Arts and cultures are universal, just because it comes from your land, that doesn’t give us the least of right to enjoy it as well. If you want to say that we stole your batik, then why not claim that to Hawaii too? And about addressing your country Indon, Indon doesn’t even mean anything, so why would you get offended by that? And what makes you all mightier than thou to demand us adding 'n' to that? |
| by it'sNina_witch quoted from Yahoo! Answers. |
I watched video about Norman being interviewed by Indonesian TV regarding Pendet dance. They were very rude while asking, as if Norman is the big culprit behind the video making. Later on, Discovery Channel apologized to both countries for the mistake. Well, free promotion for Discovery.
What we can do now regarding this is to sit together and discuss what we have in common that need to be labelled as ours. Like for example the gamelan; just brand a new name to it like gamelan Indonesia and gamelan Malaysia or something like that. It’s hard to please both hearts but we can always tolerate right? I’m not speaking on behalf of the Malaysians but that’s what I can think of. A peace way of settling thing.
Or just don’t put copyright at all. Easy peasy. We share the same tremors anyway.
Sources: The Star, Tourism Indonesia, Associated Press.
