{"id":36942,"date":"2013-09-05T06:49:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T22:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/?p=36942"},"modified":"2013-09-05T06:49:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T22:49:11","slug":"quit-duping-the-people-through-historical-revisionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/quit-duping-the-people-through-historical-revisionism\/","title":{"rendered":"Quit duping the people through historical revisionism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Steven Sim Chee Keong<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/steven-sim.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5938\" style=\"padding-right: 10px;\" title=\"steven sim\" src=\"http:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/steven-sim-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>I am disappointed by the arrest of Sasterawan Negara (National Laurate) A Samad Said or more fondly known as Pak Samad on 3 September following the arrest of two other activists, Hishammudin Rais and Adam Adli a day before him.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the arrests was that the trio raised the \u201cBendera Sang Saka Malaya\u201d on the eve of National Day at Dataran Merdeka.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time police acted upon such excuse. Last year, a blogger was also investigated for raising the \u201cBendera Sang Saka Malaya&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Bendera Sang Saka Malaya, is the flag of Malaya (Tanah Melayu) proposed by the independence movement AMCJA-PUTERA which consisted of prominent figures who struggled for our country\u2019s freedom from colonial rule, some even way before any leaders from UMNO or Parti Perikatan.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, to intimidate a well-respected Malay figure such as Pak Samad and the other activists just because they were commemorating a part of our country\u2019s history of independence struggle is a despicable act of historical revisionism by the ruling regime, Barisan Nasional.<\/p>\n<p>Historical revisionism refers to the distortion of historical facts to give a false account of what actually happened. Such act is usually done by regimes trying to pervert history for the sake of their own political interests.<\/p>\n<p>One other example of recent historical revisionism is the film Tanda Putera, which received funding from the government to show a distorted version of history from the narrow political perspective of UMNO-Barisan Nasional.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, I urge the Barisan Nasional government to quit spreading its political propaganda through historical revisionism, including in the subject of Sejarah (History) in schools. The government should not manipulate history as a political tool to ensure the survival of the ruling party. And finally, I also urge that all the above charges on Pak Samad, Hishammudin Rais and Adam Adli be dropped immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Steven Sim Chee Keong I am disappointed by the arrest of Sasterawan Negara (National Laurate) A Samad Said or more fondly known as Pak Samad on 3 September following the arrest of two other activists, Hishammudin Rais and Adam Adli a day before him. The reason for the arrests was that the trio raised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[482],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-opinion"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}