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Simple_Peasant_124 karma

Selamat malam tuan! I'm a Malaysian but Malaysian culture is closely related to Indonesian anyway. I find how you describe your work pretty intriguing because gamelan is really wonderful (in fact my school has a gamelan unit) yet foreigners almost never listen to it in the first place.

Anyway, my question or questions are:

1) Why were you interested in Indonesian music in the first place?

2)Would you ever consider crossing over to Malaysia documenting Malaysian music?

Terima Kasih. Lebih lagi, tuan agak fasih berbahasa, ya?

Simple_Peasant_121 karma

Beaten me to the punch. Well, as an addition, would u/R_AGE like the newspaper to cut ties with MCA to make the paper less of a mouthpiece? The association has made people distrustful of most newspapers in the country. What do you think?

Simple_Peasant_17 karma

Not OP but right now, even discussing Article 153 is illegal, under the Sedition Act. Good news is that the new government is reforming that act.

Simple_Peasant_13 karma

I didn't quite get a chance to welcome you guys to Reddit (had to reset my account) so i would like to do so now. Pleasure having you here. Now, allow me to ask some somewhat personal questions:

  1. What was your guy's reaction concerning the fall of the previous BN government. I don't want any corporatised statement. I want the personal view of all of you. As pointed out by others, your paper was partly owned by the government, and I somewhat suspect received funding from it a la Utusan Malaysia. However, R_AGE seems to be quite liberal-leaning. It would be interesting to know.
  2. Just looking at the people on your team, it seems there is a bit of a racial representation problem. Most people working on R_AGE seem to be Chinese with only minimal Malay and Indian representation. It seems to be the same for a lot of English newspapers. Is there a reason why this is so? Is it because Malays are not interested in journalism? If you think that this is a problem, what should we do to stop it?

Simple_Peasant_10 karma

Oh, I forgot to ask as well, what are your opinions on PSM? It is a bit of a pet issue of mine. Also, allow me to press on your second answer. According to your website the representation of Chinese in what seems to be your top guys is even way off from less than half; 2/3rds are Chinese with only 1 Malay among them. Because you hire according to people who are best suited, does this mean that Malays who are on your team are less competent? If so, why?

Sorry for the question, you did say to not ask softball questions, so here you go.