Looks like our elected leaders are bending over backwards to please the rest of the world. They want to appear cordial to the immigrant and refugee populations, to negate the impression our enforcement official and RELA volunteers harass them to grease their forever dry hands. At last count, the number of illegal Indonesian immigrants in the country reached 2 million, surpassing the Indians as the third largest ethnic group in the country. The leaders seem quite relaxed about it and have rekindled their respective Indonesian origins - like the PM with his Sulawesian heritage and the former CM of Selangor with his Javanese origin. The way Indonesians weave in and out of the country is like walking around a revolving door with so many of them holding multiple passports, each with different names and age. They themselves have forgotten their original names and ages. They have mastered the art of masquerade to put Charles Sobhraj (the Bikini Killer) feel like a bumbling novice.
This makes our Immigration enforcement a joke, bringing it back to before the time of Teuku Zakaria Teuku Nyak Puteh (a.k.a. P, Ramlee) when Indonesia and Federation of Malay States were part of the Nusantara archipelago where people move to and fro with no boundaries. That is how you got the likes of Sarong Kebaya Queen of the Malay movie Golden Era, Maria Menado from Menado in Celebes (Sulawesi),, Aziz Satar from Java and P Ramlee's parents from Sumatra.
Hawkers stores all over KL are operated by moon-shining immigrants (?illegal) from Myanmar and Thailand single-handedly. Many thanks to the legitimate Malaysian licence owners who find it more lucrative and less tiring to sublet the business. Anyway, the enforcement is lax, and if you take care of them, they will take good care of you. Isn't that Mafia's tagline?
If having a large pool of Rohingya asylum seekers her for the past 20 years is not enough (under the auspices of UNHCR), now we have volunteered to Australia to hold their asylum seekers from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan while they (the Australians) take their own sweet time to process their applications. Why? That is what baffling everybody, but it seems like a face-saving exercise. We can see that some of the Rohingya refugees have blended so well in the society that they speak better Malay than three-quarters of the certified citizens of Malaysia!
Just like our southern neighbours, we are in the same boat, In Singapore, the educated and qualified found greener pastures in apparently economically healthier and freer societies. In their places happy to replace are super-rich from mainland China and Indonesia who only have with the money. (That is all that everybody wants!) And there are the unskilled workers from Southern India and China to do the lowly menial chores.
In Malaysia, the efflux of talented individuals from all ethnic groups has reached dizzying heights. Before long, the large pool of illegal immigrant population will somehow become citizens through corrupt practices of specific individuals with vested interests to garner votes to stay in power. These new citizens would now fight for their space in the sun in their newfound land amongst the already marginalized group of the society who have to jump-start the economy in the 20th century - children of the plantation workers.
This makes our Immigration enforcement a joke, bringing it back to before the time of Teuku Zakaria Teuku Nyak Puteh (a.k.a. P, Ramlee) when Indonesia and Federation of Malay States were part of the Nusantara archipelago where people move to and fro with no boundaries. That is how you got the likes of Sarong Kebaya Queen of the Malay movie Golden Era, Maria Menado from Menado in Celebes (Sulawesi),, Aziz Satar from Java and P Ramlee's parents from Sumatra.
Hawkers stores all over KL are operated by moon-shining immigrants (?illegal) from Myanmar and Thailand single-handedly. Many thanks to the legitimate Malaysian licence owners who find it more lucrative and less tiring to sublet the business. Anyway, the enforcement is lax, and if you take care of them, they will take good care of you. Isn't that Mafia's tagline?
If having a large pool of Rohingya asylum seekers her for the past 20 years is not enough (under the auspices of UNHCR), now we have volunteered to Australia to hold their asylum seekers from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan while they (the Australians) take their own sweet time to process their applications. Why? That is what baffling everybody, but it seems like a face-saving exercise. We can see that some of the Rohingya refugees have blended so well in the society that they speak better Malay than three-quarters of the certified citizens of Malaysia!
Just like our southern neighbours, we are in the same boat, In Singapore, the educated and qualified found greener pastures in apparently economically healthier and freer societies. In their places happy to replace are super-rich from mainland China and Indonesia who only have with the money. (That is all that everybody wants!) And there are the unskilled workers from Southern India and China to do the lowly menial chores.In Malaysia, the efflux of talented individuals from all ethnic groups has reached dizzying heights. Before long, the large pool of illegal immigrant population will somehow become citizens through corrupt practices of specific individuals with vested interests to garner votes to stay in power. These new citizens would now fight for their space in the sun in their newfound land amongst the already marginalized group of the society who have to jump-start the economy in the 20th century - children of the plantation workers.
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