not a hate message

I find it foolish for someone who would dedicate their time and energy for building up hate and promoting it.

The hot discussion these days is the new Malingsia nickname given to Malaysia. So Malaysia claims a couple of songs from Indonesia's traditional song collection as theirs (Jali-jali and Rasa Sayange), it's not like we never copy other countries' hardwork, we even steal from our fellow citizens (I have a painter friend who's painting was copied by God who knows who and with lacking of copyright law he's not sure how to sue, even not sure if he can sue).

If you check out a blog that's dedicated to this Malingsia issue you will see articles about what Malaysia has done, from modifying their flag from US' (and I keep wondering how we got the same flag color with Monaco. And didn't we modify from Dutch's flag, where the patriots took down the flag, ripped off the blue part and raised it again in proud, there, "sangsaka merah putih" waves majestically above the air). And of course there are hundreds of comments from both sides. The Indonesians think it's patriotic to say nasty things about the Malays, the Malays fought back and pointed out that without them those TKIs would be sorry tales in their home country.

Anyway, I'm not really interested in this debate. Nobody's perfect, no country is perfect either. Even I have to admit, at times, I'm just too ashamed to be born as Indonesian. It will never be "right or wrong is my country", my country doesn't really do much, what matters more is the individual.

So fellow Indons (oops), raise up your mirrors, and look at your own specks.

Merdeka!