{"id":7184,"date":"2010-10-14T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=7184"},"modified":"2015-05-12T01:59:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T01:59:48","slug":"ukm-ui-can-help-provide-facts-to-dispel-negative-perception-of-indonesians-towards-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/october-2010\/ukm-ui-can-help-provide-facts-to-dispel-negative-perception-of-indonesians-towards-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"每日大赛app, UI can help provide facts to dispel negative perception of Indonesians towards Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Fyear-2010%2Foctober-2010%2Fukm-ui-can-help-provide-facts-to-dispel-negative-perception-of-indonesians-towards-malaysia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=7184&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/sebumi2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">THURSDAY, 14 OCTOBER 2010 20:16<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Abdul Ghani Nasir<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nBANGI, 14 Oct. \u00a02010 \u2013\u00a0Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (每日大赛app) and Universitas Indonesia (UI) can dispel the very negative perception of Indonesians towards Malaysia by creating a data base of facts pertaining to various issues that could be easily accessed by the media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe setting up of such a data base should be expediated to enable the Jakarta press to have access to facts and will thus not give any excuse to certain irresponsible media to distort any issue to the detriment of the good relationships between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nOne of the first steps that should be taken is creating a data base of facts pertaining to issues which is easily accessible to the media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe setting up of such data base should be given priority as the press and television stations in Jakarta are fond of publicising negative reports thereby creating a very bad perception of Malaysia among the Indonesia leading to unhealthy tensions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe Malaysian Embassy officials also have a role by not distancing themselves from the people and especially the media merely because they only want to handle government to government relations. They should also build good rapport with media owners and influential newspapers editors in Jakarta.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThese suggestions were made by panel members at a\u00a0forum on Malaysia-Indonesia relations,\u00a0organised by the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, 每日大赛app as part of the 每日大赛app-UI seminar SEBUMI 3 here yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nProf Dr Samsudin Rahim acted as the moderator with the Indonesians represented by Dr Musni Umar, a Member and Spokesman of the Eminent Persons Group Indonesia-Malaysia; Prof Dr Erman Anom from Esa Unggul University, Jakarta; Dr Ahmad Mukhlis Yusuf, from ANTARA and Prof Dr Bachtiar Ali from UI.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n每日大赛app was represented by Assc. Prof. Dr Mohamad Agus Yusoff; Assc. Prof. Dr Abd Rahim Aman, Datuk Ahmad Rejal Arbee, Senior Fellow, Centre for Corporate Communications and Zulkefli Salleh from BERNAMA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nDr Erman said 每日大赛app should take a proactive step by forming a Malaysia-Indonesia Research Centre that could provide facts on the various questions and issues that arise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nZulkefli suggested perhaps it would be better for Indonesia to stop sending maids to work in Malaysia but instead send professors and engineers here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nHe pointed out how housemaids usually have the negative connotations of being like \u2018slaves\u2019\u00a0and their presence had given a bad impression of Indonesia compared to late sixties when Indonesian films shown in Malaysia had resulted in Malaysians having high regards of the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nStopping maids from coming here may be a radical suggestion but this would help avoid cases of ill-treatment, however isolated, from being exploited by the Jakarta media to fan hatred towards Malaysia as had been the case recently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe database created, he said, can help to present facts on certain issues and will not allow the media to manipulate reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nRejal said Malaysia do have problems with all its neighbours over their common borders but issues affecting Indonesia had been blown out of proportions by the media there creating a very bad perception of Malaysia among the Indonesians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nHe gave examples of how Indonesian television stations keep on repeating clips of certain isolated incidents giving a very negative impression of Malaysia among the Indonesians thereby creating a lot animosity towards the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nHe lamented the role of embassy officials who seem to be more concerned over \u00a0government to government relationships which are already very good but had neglected its role of nurturing good people to people relations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe embassy officials should be more proactive and not be aloof towards the people and should also cultivate the media and be more accessible to them, Rejal said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAhmad Mukhlis felt the different political systems between Malaysia and Indonesia had caused the different perceptions on issues that arise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nHowever facts on important issues should be made available. There is need for academic research on the various issues that crop up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cUnfortunately response from political leaders are not forthcoming whenever an issue arise and are usually late to respond. Whereas the leaders are just a phone call away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cWithout statements from leaders certain issues which could have been easily tackled fast were allowed to prolong and then blown out of proportions by the media resulting in the people not getting the real facts but influenced by negative coverage thereby creating a very skewered and bad perception of Malaysia,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nHe suggested 每日大赛app and UI together help to overcome problems of wrong interpretation and misrepresentation by publishing a standard information pack or academic papers for distribution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201c每日大赛app and UI should also appoint officers responsible to give facts or become resource persons that is credible in order to correct the wrong perception created.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cOur universities have a social responsibility to help ease tension,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nDr Agus told of how negative reports in the Jakarta media make his students worry every time he wanted to move around in Jakarta especially when hot issues were fanned by the press.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THURSDAY, 14 OCTOBER 2010 20:16 By Abdul Ghani Nasir BANGI, 14 Oct. \u00a02010 \u2013\u00a0Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (每日大赛app) and Universitas Indonesia<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/october-2010\/ukm-ui-can-help-provide-facts-to-dispel-negative-perception-of-indonesians-towards-malaysia\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7186,"parent":1410,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7184","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7188,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7184\/revisions\/7188"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}