Where to, Malaysia? A future with Anwar's Reformasi or back to Mahathirism?

• Main Author: Kim, Quek (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Petaling Jaya, Selangor SIRD 2005; ©2005
• Subjects: Anwar Ibrahim > Tun > 1947-; Mahathir bin Mohamad > Tun > 1925-; Malaysia > Politics and government
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 From Anwar Ibrahim's Letter to The Author "What you are narrating and investigating is a systemic struggle. It is a struggle of two Malaysias, Between the old and the emerging new. The old Malaysia is a nation ridden with corruption and abuses of power, its media emasculated, its freedom in deficit, its courts wobbly. Our country has grown old with these vices. We seem to have lost our youthful vigor and energy. Mediocrity and lethargy is pervasive. Insecurity has supplanted confidence. Instead of vision there is so much small mindedness." "If the reformasi is a historic movement, as we see it now, the seeds of the convulsion must already been there beneath the soil waiting the right moment to germinate. Individuals and specific events merely precipitate and provide the tipping point fot the outpouring of a massive social performance." "What your collection of articles provides to the reader is a narrative of events and processes that have become a part of our nation's collective memory. Not just a narritive, but a counter narrative, the much needed corrective rendition to the offical versiom that is full of distortion on a grand scale in a manner unprecedented in our country."