The Edge Malaysia Was Hacked On Merdeka Eve
The Edge Malaysia website was hacked by Indonesian Hacker on Merdaka Eve!
I was informed by a friend that he was not able to access to the website of Malaysia famous News portal at round 9.45 pm. When I tried to google "The Edge" and only realized that the site was hacked and down. This is really sad and I wonder if the timing was intentional, considering that it is the eve of Merdeka Day. I Twittered about it and got a reply which said that there has been a lot of anti-Malaysian Tweets from Indonesia lately. I haven’t noticed any myself, but then again, I am not following too many Indonesians.
It could be the reason of few incidents as reported by Nes Strait Times Singapore:-
Indonesians were up in arms after seeing the commercial on Malaysia that featured the pendet dance.
Kuala Lumpur had apologised for the use of the Balinese dance but said the mistake was made by a third party who was paid by Malaysia's Tourism Ministry to produce the commercial.
The Malaysian embassy in Jakarta said in a statement earlier this week: 'Nobody in Malaysia claimed that the pendet dance originated in Malaysia.'
But that is not the end of the story.
A report in yesterday's Jakarta Globe newspaper quoted an executive from a state-owned recording company as asking why Malaysia's national anthem 'Negaraku' (My Country) sounded like the Indonesian song 'Terang Bulan' (Moon Shine).
Mr Ruktiningsih, the head of recording company Lokananta, urged the Indonesian government to act on the 'violation of intellectual property rights'.
'We have to unite against Malaysia, as they keep stealing Indonesia's assets,' he added.
An Internet search found that both songs do indeed share the same roots. Malaysia acknowledges as much on a government website detailing its monarchy system.
The song Terang Bulan comes from a popular French melody in the Seychelles, that spread to the Malay archipelago in the early 20th century.
It was adopted as Perak's state anthem in 1901. And in 1957, it became the national anthem for Malaysia with the lyrics changed.
The hacker’s text (from the image above). It mentions that Malaysia is a poor country, and that we are taking everything from Indonesia, and worse of all, that the most wanted terrorist in Indonesia is a Malaysian - Nordin Top who is still at large!
The damage is done, and that the biggest problem is how we are going to change outsiders perception of us. I don’t think we have a great reputation globally already, and we definitely cannot afford to have our neighbours, one that many Malaysians have roots in especially, despising us.
With this happening to us, as Malaysian; can you still say aloud "Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!" on 31st August 2009?
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