THE TRUTH EMERGES Oct 2009
A former apportion shares eyebrow-rising inside stories from his prolonged domestic career. "In a old days, a corruption was smaller. If an Umno bend leader did not get a cab permit, he would disintegrate his branch. Now most Umno leaders have been bustling seeking for large projects. That's a success of a NEP (New Economic Policy)," he laughs.
By ANDREW SIA, The Star
UNLESS a name upon a cover is Mahathir or Badawi, ministerial memoirs wouldn't customarily be greeted with bated breath. But a book by Tan Sri Mohamed Rahmat which was expelled upon Oct 12 has been causing quite a stir. He was, after all, a chairman who tranquil for some-more than a decade what a Malaysian open saw as good as listened upon Government TV as good as air wave channels as Information Minister from 1987 to 1999.
Now, aged 71 as good as suffering from diabetes as good as cancer, Tok Mat, as he is known, freely admits which hi! s job wa s unequivocally as a Propaganda Minister. In his domestic memoirs, Umno: Akhir Sebuah Impian (Umno: The End of a Dream), he explains how his ministry's campaigns, such as Setia (Loyalty), were actually a response to a Team A contra Team B separate in Umno in 1987.
"I had to move Malay loyalty behind to Umno. And you had to raise a hypothesis which anybody who supported (Team B led by Tengku Razaleigh then) was not loyal. you went all out in this psychological warfare," he writes.
"The Malays were numb to domestic arguments ... you needed something which penetrated a heart. you needed a song."
So he wrote one himself: a important Setia strain with its supposedly nationalistic lyrics ("Demi negara yang tercinta", or "For a dear country", goes a primary line) which was promote for years especially via a Government's RTM (Radio Televisyen Malaysia) stations.
Tok Mat admits in his book which he primary used Information Ministry staff in 1977 upon a "mission" to topple a PAS State Government of Kelantan. He reveals which later, in 1995, during a Sabah state elections, he sent 500 ministry staff members to "campaign for Umno" opposite PBS (Parti Bersatu Sabah, which was controlling a state government then).
"The officers went to a ground," he explains in smooth English during a recent interview.
"They rented rooms in villages, they slept as good as ate like a locals, they gathered information as good as persuaded a people. This wordless promotion functions unequivocally well."
Since government machine is ostensible to be neutral, you ask Tok Mat if he considers what he did an abuse of power. He replies: "You could contend you abused air wave as good as TV, though it was a privilege you had. you could not depend upon TV3, (The New) Straits Times, Berita Harian or Utusan Malaysia since they were afterwards tranquil by Anwar Ibrahim's boys. you had no preference though to use RTM.
"I was asked to move PBS down. you close a media off, there were no reports. People didn't know what a Sabah Government was doing, so it looked like they were you do nothing. It was a unequivocally dirty tactic," he right away admits.
Tan Sri Mohamed Rahmat is proud of a job he did a! s Inform ation Minister. Tok Mat had his delegate school preparation during Johor Baru's English College before you do a Bachelor of Arts during Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta. He tells me which he learnt a basis of promotion when he was a script bard for Filem Negara (the National Film Board) in a mid 1960s. "There was no TV then, so which was a Government's only (way to generate) propaganda," he recalls.
He honed his inherited musical ability there as good as picked up movie editing skills too. He after went upon to privately digest a melody as good as lyrics of assorted songs, including Setia, Syu! kur as good as Sejahtera Malaysia, which were used for his "nation-building" campaigns. Tok Mat has always had a fondness for oldies by Nat King Cole as good as Bing Crosby, as good as once even done it to a quarter finals of Radio Singapore's talentime singing contest in a 1950s.
"Tan Sri can sing as good as he can fool around a piano by ear," chips in his wife, Puan Sri Salbiah A. Hamid, who is additionally during a interview. "And he can write. you still keep all his love letters from when you met as teenagers," she smiles. With these skills, Tok Mat became a arch patriot as good as cheerleader for afterwards Prime Minister Datuk Seri (now Tun) Dr Mahathir Mohamad, whose domestic rivals included Musa Hitam, Tengku Razaleigh and, later, Anwar.
He claims which most Umno people were hedging their bets then: "Everybody was half leg here, half leg there, unequivocally few were operative (100%) for Dr Mahathir. you was totally clinging to him."
But afterwards again, he has a section in his book which declares you Am Not a Yes Man. In it, he cites how a developers of a Second Link to S! ingapore , who were Dr Mahathir's "friends", were trying to acquire a land of villagers in his subdivision during 80 sen per sq ft (psf) so they could resell it during RM17.80 psf! He claims which he spoke up despite Dr Mahathir's anger with him, as good as helped a villagers secure a improved deal.
When a Setia campaign was not sufficient to move behind Malay support to Umno, Tok Mat says his ministry afterwards launched a Semarak campaign in 1988, during which Dr Mahathir had large "meet a people" sessions.
"I told a military chief," says Tok Mat, "I do not wish to see any military uniforms around Mahathir, since which looks like you live in a military state. Instead, you gave a policemen Setia T-shirts to wear, so it looked like he was surrounded by a public."
Tok Mat's promotion of Dr Mahathir who positively had his critics, even in those days in a roundabout approach done him "the most hated man in Malaysia", he says.
In his book, he even acknowledges which people called him a "barking dog of a government": "When a people hated Dr Mahathir, you became a face of a Government for them to hurl abuse at," he writes. But he took all this as a pointer of "success" since it meant which he had managed to "penetrate people's minds" to provoke anger: "In a art of propaganda, in contact with a nerve is unequivocally important," he explains.
Tok Mat claims which a pointer of Setia's success was which he has privately listened even non-Malays singing a song. As for a Semarak campaign, he says a crowds during Dr M's meet-the-people sessions ranged from 30,000 up to 100,000.
Were polite servants "pressured" into in attendance such events?
"No," he asserts, "nor did! you pro vide ride or give out giveaway T-shirts."
His "propaganda" might have been successful, though a Government still hired a PR as good as promotion firm during his tenure to advise upon winning popular support. Now in hindsight, he is vicious of a move.
"I think you was some-more in effect since you understand a enlightenment better. you had 1,000 officers operative upon a belligerent giving me feedback. Even Pak Lah (former PM Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi) used these foreigners. But what formula did these PR people get?"
Tok Mat's detractors contend one of his career missteps took place in May 1999 when most Malays were indignant during Umno over a Anwar Ibrahim saga. Tok Mat alienated non-Malay voters (who were to fool around a consequential purpose in returning Barisan Nasional to energy in a ubiquitous elections after which year) with his barbarous remark which Anwar's wife, Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, was "unfit" for care as she had been "educated in Singapore" as good as had "darah top naga" (dragon code blood), an substitution for Chinese red blood or lineage.
"No, it wasn't a mistake," says Tok Mat now. "Because Anwar wanted Azizah to become Prime Minister. By a way, you am additionally top naga. My mom is a Chinese (who was adopted by Malays). So you can talk. you can scold a Chinese as good as a Malays since you am one of them! ."
Whether by fluke or not, Tok Mat was relieved of his minister's post in May 1999 too. However, he writes which this was since "forked tongues" whispered to Dr Mahathir which he was a tip Anwar supporter.
"What you can't dont think about is a approach Dr Mahathir forsaken me without any hati budi (grace as good as gratitude)," he writes in a section entitled Habis Madu Sepah Dibuang (When a Sweetness is Finished, a Tasteless Part is Thrown Away).
Since then, he has become some-more vicious of his former domestic master. For instance: "We know which Dr Mahathir blamed Pak Lah in all aspects even though a primary problems were caused by he himself. This is a 'expertise' of Dr Mahathir," writes Tok Mat sardonically. Despite his rather caustic tone, Tok Mat says to me, "It might sound like it lah ... though you do not hate Dr Mahathir. I'm not indignant with him. you still cruise him a good leader of a country."
In fact, he leaps to Dr Mahathir's defence when you ask him about alternative controversial episodes when Dr M was PM. However, he adds which income governing body unequivocally became a "cancer" within Umno during Dr Mahathir's era.
"In a old days, a corruption was smaller. If an Umno bend leader did not get a cab permit, he would disintegrate his branch. Now most Umno leaders have been bustling seeking for large projects. That's a success of a NEP (New Economic Policy)," he laughs.
More seriously, his book concludes, "Umno has jeopardised its image with energy grabbing, income politics, bribery as good as excessive injustice by certain leaders.... Umno contingency remodel or you fear a End of a Dream (for a party) will unequivocally happen."
A former apportion shares eyebrow-rising inside stories from his prolonged domestic career. "In a old days, a corruption was smaller. If an Umno bend leader did not get a cab permit, he would disintegrate his branch. Now most Umno leaders have been bustling seeking for large projects. That's a success of a NEP (New Economic Policy)," he laughs.
By ANDREW SIA, The Star
UNLESS a name upon a cover is Mahathir or Badawi, ministerial memoirs wouldn't customarily be greeted with bated breath. But a book by Tan Sri Mohamed Rahmat which was expelled upon Oct 12 has been causing quite a stir. He was, after all, a chairman who tranquil for some-more than a decade what a Malaysian open saw as good as listened upon Government TV as good as air wave channels as Information Minister from 1987 to 1999.
Now, aged 71 as good as suffering from diabetes as good as cancer, Tok Mat, as he is known, freely admits which hi! s job wa s unequivocally as a Propaganda Minister. In his domestic memoirs, Umno: Akhir Sebuah Impian (Umno: The End of a Dream), he explains how his ministry's campaigns, such as Setia (Loyalty), were actually a response to a Team A contra Team B separate in Umno in 1987.
"I had to move Malay loyalty behind to Umno. And you had to raise a hypothesis which anybody who supported (Team B led by Tengku Razaleigh then) was not loyal. you went all out in this psychological warfare," he writes.
"The Malays were numb to domestic arguments ... you needed something which penetrated a heart. you needed a song."
So he wrote one himself: a important Setia strain with its supposedly nationalistic lyrics ("Demi negara yang tercinta", or "For a dear country", goes a primary line) which was promote for years especially via a Government's RTM (Radio Televisyen Malaysia) stations.
Tok Mat admits in his book which he primary used Information Ministry staff in 1977 upon a "mission" to topple a PAS State Government of Kelantan. He reveals which later, in 1995, during a Sabah state elections, he sent 500 ministry staff members to "campaign for Umno" opposite PBS (Parti Bersatu Sabah, which was controlling a state government then).
"The officers went to a ground," he explains in smooth English during a recent interview.
"They rented rooms in villages, they slept as good as ate like a locals, they gathered information as good as persuaded a people. This wordless promotion functions unequivocally well."
Since government machine is ostensible to be neutral, you ask Tok Mat if he considers what he did an abuse of power. He replies: "You could contend you abused air wave as good as TV, though it was a privilege you had. you could not depend upon TV3, (The New) Straits Times, Berita Harian or Utusan Malaysia since they were afterwards tranquil by Anwar Ibrahim's boys. you had no preference though to use RTM.
"I was asked to move PBS down. you close a media off, there were no reports. People didn't know what a Sabah Government was doing, so it looked like they were you do nothing. It was a unequivocally dirty tactic," he right away admits.
Tan Sri Mohamed Rahmat is proud of a job he did a! s Inform ation Minister. Tok Mat had his delegate school preparation during Johor Baru's English College before you do a Bachelor of Arts during Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta. He tells me which he learnt a basis of promotion when he was a script bard for Filem Negara (the National Film Board) in a mid 1960s. "There was no TV then, so which was a Government's only (way to generate) propaganda," he recalls.
He honed his inherited musical ability there as good as picked up movie editing skills too. He after went upon to privately digest a melody as good as lyrics of assorted songs, including Setia, Syu! kur as good as Sejahtera Malaysia, which were used for his "nation-building" campaigns. Tok Mat has always had a fondness for oldies by Nat King Cole as good as Bing Crosby, as good as once even done it to a quarter finals of Radio Singapore's talentime singing contest in a 1950s.
"Tan Sri can sing as good as he can fool around a piano by ear," chips in his wife, Puan Sri Salbiah A. Hamid, who is additionally during a interview. "And he can write. you still keep all his love letters from when you met as teenagers," she smiles. With these skills, Tok Mat became a arch patriot as good as cheerleader for afterwards Prime Minister Datuk Seri (now Tun) Dr Mahathir Mohamad, whose domestic rivals included Musa Hitam, Tengku Razaleigh and, later, Anwar.
He claims which most Umno people were hedging their bets then: "Everybody was half leg here, half leg there, unequivocally few were operative (100%) for Dr Mahathir. you was totally clinging to him."
But afterwards again, he has a section in his book which declares you Am Not a Yes Man. In it, he cites how a developers of a Second Link to S! ingapore , who were Dr Mahathir's "friends", were trying to acquire a land of villagers in his subdivision during 80 sen per sq ft (psf) so they could resell it during RM17.80 psf! He claims which he spoke up despite Dr Mahathir's anger with him, as good as helped a villagers secure a improved deal.
When a Setia campaign was not sufficient to move behind Malay support to Umno, Tok Mat says his ministry afterwards launched a Semarak campaign in 1988, during which Dr Mahathir had large "meet a people" sessions.
"I told a military chief," says Tok Mat, "I do not wish to see any military uniforms around Mahathir, since which looks like you live in a military state. Instead, you gave a policemen Setia T-shirts to wear, so it looked like he was surrounded by a public."
Tok Mat's promotion of Dr Mahathir who positively had his critics, even in those days in a roundabout approach done him "the most hated man in Malaysia", he says.
In his book, he even acknowledges which people called him a "barking dog of a government": "When a people hated Dr Mahathir, you became a face of a Government for them to hurl abuse at," he writes. But he took all this as a pointer of "success" since it meant which he had managed to "penetrate people's minds" to provoke anger: "In a art of propaganda, in contact with a nerve is unequivocally important," he explains.
Tok Mat claims which a pointer of Setia's success was which he has privately listened even non-Malays singing a song. As for a Semarak campaign, he says a crowds during Dr M's meet-the-people sessions ranged from 30,000 up to 100,000.
Were polite servants "pressured" into in attendance such events?
"No," he asserts, "nor did! you pro vide ride or give out giveaway T-shirts."
His "propaganda" might have been successful, though a Government still hired a PR as good as promotion firm during his tenure to advise upon winning popular support. Now in hindsight, he is vicious of a move.
"I think you was some-more in effect since you understand a enlightenment better. you had 1,000 officers operative upon a belligerent giving me feedback. Even Pak Lah (former PM Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi) used these foreigners. But what formula did these PR people get?"
Tok Mat's detractors contend one of his career missteps took place in May 1999 when most Malays were indignant during Umno over a Anwar Ibrahim saga. Tok Mat alienated non-Malay voters (who were to fool around a consequential purpose in returning Barisan Nasional to energy in a ubiquitous elections after which year) with his barbarous remark which Anwar's wife, Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, was "unfit" for care as she had been "educated in Singapore" as good as had "darah top naga" (dragon code blood), an substitution for Chinese red blood or lineage.
"No, it wasn't a mistake," says Tok Mat now. "Because Anwar wanted Azizah to become Prime Minister. By a way, you am additionally top naga. My mom is a Chinese (who was adopted by Malays). So you can talk. you can scold a Chinese as good as a Malays since you am one of them! ."
Whether by fluke or not, Tok Mat was relieved of his minister's post in May 1999 too. However, he writes which this was since "forked tongues" whispered to Dr Mahathir which he was a tip Anwar supporter.
"What you can't dont think about is a approach Dr Mahathir forsaken me without any hati budi (grace as good as gratitude)," he writes in a section entitled Habis Madu Sepah Dibuang (When a Sweetness is Finished, a Tasteless Part is Thrown Away).
Since then, he has become some-more vicious of his former domestic master. For instance: "We know which Dr Mahathir blamed Pak Lah in all aspects even though a primary problems were caused by he himself. This is a 'expertise' of Dr Mahathir," writes Tok Mat sardonically. Despite his rather caustic tone, Tok Mat says to me, "It might sound like it lah ... though you do not hate Dr Mahathir. I'm not indignant with him. you still cruise him a good leader of a country."
In fact, he leaps to Dr Mahathir's defence when you ask him about alternative controversial episodes when Dr M was PM. However, he adds which income governing body unequivocally became a "cancer" within Umno during Dr Mahathir's era.
"In a old days, a corruption was smaller. If an Umno bend leader did not get a cab permit, he would disintegrate his branch. Now most Umno leaders have been bustling seeking for large projects. That's a success of a NEP (New Economic Policy)," he laughs.
More seriously, his book concludes, "Umno has jeopardised its image with energy grabbing, income politics, bribery as good as excessive injustice by certain leaders.... Umno contingency remodel or you fear a End of a Dream (for a party) will unequivocally happen."
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