[ppi] [ppiindia] Re: Mengagumi Malaysia

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Malaysia itu bagus, Malaysia itu begini, Malaysia itu begitu...dan=20
seterusnya akan terus begini, begitu, begini begitu...entah=20
urusan 'dalamnya' itu apa yang pasti kalau diundang ya yang=20
diberitakan pasti yang bagus-bagus dong....

bisa jadi Malaysia sekarang sama dengan Indonesia rezim=20
Soeharto...coba kalau Indonesia masih seperti dulu......sekali,=20
mungkin yang diberitakan wartawan luar sama adalah Indonesia itu=20
bagus, alamnya indah, orangnya ramah, harga barangnya murah-murah=20
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--- In ppiindia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Mario Gagho <gagho@xxxx> wrote:
> dear all,
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> setiap saya membaca artikel/berita di media india, yg
> wartawannya diundang ke malaysia, pasti isinya selalu
> kekaguman dan kekaguman. dari glamornya, indah
> alamnya, bersih birokrasinya, metropolisnya, dll. saya
> tidak tau bagaimana kesan wartawan2 yg diundang
> berkunjung ke indonesia, apakah begitu juga? Well,
> kita pasti tahu jawabnya.
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> salam,
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> Fairways, other ways
> - By S. Shankar Menon=20
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> Here in Kuala Lumpur for golf as part of an Indian
> media team, it is not the fairways but the other ways
> that will interest you. More so since Mahathir's
> Wawasan 2020, gathering momentum when I was last here
> three years ago, is in full flow with his successor
> Abdullah Badawi. The vision of this country getting a
> Newly Industrialised Country status by then, includes
> creating a common unified Malaysian identity, to
> replace the various communal identities of Chinese,
> Malay, Indian and so on, an educated society based on
> spiritual values.
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> In the run-in from the state of the art airport, my
> colleagues in the team, as expectedly, go to town over
> the broad roads, how we are =97 guess, guess =97 held back
> only by corruption. They do not know of my misspent
> past, perpetually fighting these notions. Traffic jams
> of horrendous dimensions lie in wait the next day, the
> system here of adding percentages for the elected and
> selected in huge infrastructure contracts works very
> well with the delivered, spanking product.=20
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> Badawi actually bothers about the bureaucracy. He
> constantly harangues the civil service to deliver at
> the cutting edge. Has any of our Prime Ministers done
> that over the last half century? Examinations and
> in-service screening of a deeply analytical nature are
> evolved lately for promotions, the unions are
> predictably miffed. Awards are given by the chief
> secretary Tan Sri Samsuddin Osman for performances by
> regional civil servants, honoured at the national
> level. When will this ever happen at home? The new PM,
> after the benevolent dictatorship of the old one, that
> found consistent electoral support by a country who
> knew they were on to a good thing, now pleads for
> religious moderation. Overwhelmed at the thought and
> breaking down in tears at a world conference on faith.
> The Petronas and Kuala Lumpur Towers, are only the
> symbols of this huge new thrust to modernity; Bukit
> Nanas, the equatorial forest with its swaying cable
> cars above in the middle of town when I first came
> here in 1978, is now preserved as a jungle trek
> without the accents of tourists from the Mid-West
> shrieking down from below.
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> There is no time on this trip to breathe in the orchid
> or hibiscus gardens. Stumble across a clump in the
> Cameron Highlands from where the black lapwing Rajah
> Brooke butterflies rise like shreds of an umbrella.
> While doing the Kinabalu climb on an earlier visit,
> there was the largest flower in the world next to the
> path as you panted upwards. In the forests of Sabah,
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> rafflesia is a metre in diameter in full bloom, taking
> many months to develop; the open bloom lasts a few
> days, is a parasite, has seven species altogether. I
> am more obsessed with not missing putts smaller than
> that on the unbelievably zippety greens of Impian. Our
> scratch teaching pro in the team is partying till four
> every morning, while I hit balls at a driving range as
> thunder and lightning and rain sweep outside. Ajay
> Gujral and I have the same net score on the first day,
> he is asked to look for babes later, crackles in the
> second round at Saujana, while I sag miserably in the
> heat.=20
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> It is all good fun. My playing partner, a lady
> photographer from Delhi, has completely different
> playing rhythms and I grit available teeth, generally
> silently. Our Golfline magazine business head, Anil
> Dev produces a great effort on the second of three
> days, but unless I deliver in the final round over
> three courses, chances of making it to the finals in
> October in Terengannu are bleak. An inter-team amateur
> world championship is being played a lot more
> seriously while the rest of us hack. Malaysian Tourism
> has splurged on hospitality. To be accompanied by a
> police escort for the media bus as we make our way to
> the venue of the day, reminds me of getting the
> President of Seychelles from Santa Cruz airport to Taj
> Hotel in Mumbai in 25 minutes flat.=20
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> This country has a population less than twice that of
> Mumbai. The capital is at 1.6 million people, only
> twice that of a town where I was chief cook and bottle
> washer 20 years ago. Time being a function of
> interest, I still try to find the bookshop where under
> an atrium, there are waterfalls and ferns in the
> garden section, children sit around on park benches
> reading about the botanical and natural wonders of
> this amazing country. In the process, I find again the
> elaborate Kournikaya, where a small lift only for one
> wheel-chair, takes you straight to the poetry section
> in the fourth floor of a shopping mall. Unfortunately,
> Toni Morrison and her contemporaries are cellophaned
> from the itching hands of the seeking public.
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> The MPH book-store in the Mid-Valley shopping mall,
> has no flowing water any more, but the garden chairs
> and the children are still there. There is also a
> competition to describe their outlets in three words.
> Comprehensive, delightful, romantic, I say and wait
> for the first prize of a car to be shipped to
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> Malaysia gets 6 1/2 million tourists in six months, we
> get 2 1/2 a year. Their infrastructure is spectacular,
> from mountain biking to endurance events in Sabah
> around tea estates, the executive sportsmen in our
> stressed cities, have an ideal venue for combing back
> their disappearing hair. The charm of the people in
> the service industries is a magnificent plus. Though
> their wages are good, prices are reasonable, the
> bio-diversity, carefully preserved, takes the visitor
> through the enthralling countryside of Sabah and
> Sarawak in a fragile environment.=20
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> Last time here, on the trail of Jim Thompson the
> maverick bringer of silk to this country and possibly
> a CIA agent straight out of Somerset Maugham, I saw a
> few of the Orang Aslis come down from the tea gardens.
> The original inhabitants will be dazed at modern
> Malaysia. The government looks after them as well
> without condescension. The press here may not welter
> in our great freedoms, which include rotten golf
> scores for our media team, but Mahathir has created a
> genuine nation. It is not about too many countries,
> including China or us, that we can say that.=20
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> Hope to play better golf in Bangkok this morning,
> hopes sshankarmenon@xxxx
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> Mario Gagho
> Political Science,
> Agra University, India
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