When we are speaking in context of Malaysia, preceding, when yellow colour being portrays, it resembles nothing but the communication company in Malaysia called Digi. But as human we are much influence, now the yellow colours, either positive or negatively will resembles to Bersih Rally 3.0.As youth, the front line of future generation, it is compulsory for every one of us here to know what happening in our country , the pattern of the politic and the sociology of it. So here we are today neither promoting nor manifesting , but speaking from the veil of honesty just to be informative and sharing with all of you today , the hot button issue in our country , the bersih 3.0 rally.
The Bersih 3.0 rally (also called the Sit In rally or Duduk Bantah in Malay) was a demonstration in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia held on 28 April 2012. This rally was organised as a follow-up to the 2011 Bersih rally and the 2007 Bersih rally. The rally, organised by the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih), was supported by Pakatan Rakyat, the coalition of the three largest opposition parties in Malaysia.
The goal for bersih is to have a clean and fair elections and goes against the insincere forms of elections where phantom voters are spotted and the insincerity of the duty from the electoral .What the bersih demands were :
• Clean the electoral roll
• Reform postal voting
• Use of indelible ink
• A minimum campaign period of 21 days
• Free and fair access to mainstream media
• Strengthen public institutions
• Stop corruption
• Stop dirty politics
Ladies and gentlemen,
Sadly, the harmony and peaceful demonstration have been wrongly interpreted. Instead having a harmony demonstration, what have been illustrated is more to riot and chaotic situation that brought fear to both local residence and international visitors. There are several controversial issues came out during the demonstration, which are, police brutality and bias media coverage.
Now what put us in concern are,The videos of police brutality and how ill-treated the participant of bersih have been widely spread and broadcast internationally online. The viewers from in and out of Malaysia now have different picture for Malaysia and less respect towards the police.Until now we don’t have clues who is wrong and who is right as the investigation is still going on, but speaking from the perspective of media practitioner, these issues have been dragged into the spiral of silence.
The media is being bias in coverage in reporting that is what claimed by the bersih rally participant.If we really look through it, what have been broadcast by the real situation and the participant compared to what reported, we can track an obvious contrast. This action of being secretive by media, have somehow brings the citizen into dissatisfaction and anger for them to not be true all this while and feed the citizen with all the lies and twisted truth.
No one is guilty until proven guilty.We all subscribe to that and we will just have to wait and see what the result and extend action for all the above issue. Here we just want to emphasize what is bersih, to inform and share the details that we know, Because we believe as the future generation,it is wise for us to know what the leader of the country doing and how is the politics , because they are what left for us in future.
Ladies and gentleman,We believe our duty is just to inform and sharing , the choice to believe, to subscribe or not is in your hand. As youth that one day will be the one voting for the election, we will play the big role and our decision matters to everyone.Use your wise judgement to take these as bad or wrong, but always bear in mind whatever decision you have made you have to face the consequences and choose wisely for the sake of your future, your family future and our future. The power of changing Malaysia into better place is in your hand. The choice is yours.Thank you.
