I'm not sure I would call what happened "raiding the rich" or even nationalization in the normally understood sense. They bought them out fair and square. And a good investment it was for the new owners, while the workers got the shaft under both of them...
@Chuck85412 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it was just a loophole in the system they exploited. Nothing really groundbreaking. It was all legit fair. It just went from rich people to rich people. The peasants are always the pawns.
@mukeshsharma-iq8dp2 жыл бұрын
Normal expectations from a Bumi Govt that did not empathise with the Malaysian workers in plantations because they were ethnic indians.🙏🏻
@sh7de5532 жыл бұрын
Sadly, profits come first, national pride notwithstanding. Plantation workers getting shafted is a recurring theme to this day in the palm oil industry, only difference is Bangladeshi and Indonesians replaced Indian workers of the old colonial days.
@MrAizatazmi2 жыл бұрын
@@mukeshsharma-iq8dp why should they? they were bring into malaya by their colonial masters
@halahmilksheikh2 жыл бұрын
He's trying to clickbait this because his other videos like this did well
@mfaizsyahmi2 жыл бұрын
One thing not mentioned in this video is how these plantations influenced, and continues to influence, urban development in Malaysia. Holding massive amounts of land, they're poised to become direct beneficiaries of an expanding economy and a growing population as all towns and cities are literally hemmed in on all sides by estate land. Many estate owners have now transitioned into property development, turning hectares of estate land into "planned" townships. One notable example is USJ, which stands for UEP Subang Jaya; UEP stands for United Estates Plantations. In the early days states and municipalities had had a lot of involvement in the development of brand new cities such as Petaling Jaya and Selangor's new capital Shah Alam, but as time progresses planning had largely been handed off to the estates' property development subsidiaries. The net result of this is generally poor planning of transportation networks, as all these developments directly dump their motor traffic onto the existing federal or state roads, clogging them. There's hardly any interconnectivity between the estates, so even if they're adjacent, you have to take long circuitous route on the congested arterial roads. If that's the case for roads, then the case for walkability, cyclability and public transport network is virtually nonexistent between developments. You can for example take a look at a satellite view and see how the townships of Klang Valley have subtle invisible borders where a double-carriageway road just end or turn sharply to a 2-lane road, or invisible lines where roads dare not cross. Those are most likely former properly lines of the estates that were once there.
@sustainablerenewableintegr83112 жыл бұрын
I thought I'm the only one who realise that
@wanrazul2 жыл бұрын
Yup. A number of them ventured into real estate development
@jonathantan24692 жыл бұрын
I've noticed this since the early 2000s when I lived abroad in America & issues of urban planning were and still are frequently discussed there. I couldn't help but see parallels between suburban sprawl in America & the growth of sprawling suburban housing estates in the KL/Klang Valley, Penang, Johor Baharu, and my hometown. The Malaysian Dream of the 1980s to today... is your cookie/'kuih'-cutter terrace house in another "-Jaya", "Alam", or "Bandar Baru-", payable by a 30 year homeloan, plus two cars on loans for you and your wife. In fact, I would say it's American style sprawl with Malaysian characteristics. At least in America, you could cycle on the sidewalk or use the grid-style layout to avoid busy roads. And where I stayed, you could bring your bicycle on board their equivalent of the LRT.
@ishouldhidemynamelmao3452 жыл бұрын
I would want to see a walkable city in Malaysia, would be nice.. I hate seeing how car dependent Malaysia is
@markvietti2 жыл бұрын
British never get credit for modernizing 3rd world countries...
@crypticTV2 жыл бұрын
1:20 Malaysia formation 2:32 Indian colonial government lobbying for workers rights 4:00 Chinese takeover 5:40 nationality 6:00 Anglophiles 7:35 sectarian violence 8:10 nep Bumiputra - Sri Lankans 10:50 company takeover 12:05 mahathir Mohamed 13:00 dawn raid UPC danish 16:00 shut Apple down Michael Dell 16:30 investment in Malaysia terms 17:00 Indian workers no gain
@pjacobsen10002 жыл бұрын
As a Danish national, I had no idea Danish entrepreneurs had started plantations in Malaysia. But this video caused me to look into the history of United Plantations. Apparently a very innovative and even progressive company, it still thrives today and there are still Danish people working in management.
@syafiqkamarulzaman3572 жыл бұрын
As a Malaysian, I too was surprised by this fact. Here in this country we often hear about Denmark when it comes to badminton (congrats to Viktor Axelsen), biscuits, football, and winter sporting. Little do we know about the plantation business activity. Good to know something new everyday.
@pjacobsen10002 жыл бұрын
@@syafiqkamarulzaman357 Ha ha, yes, I thought about what the Danish and Malaysian colleagues talk about during lunch break: Badminton!
@CatnamedMittens2 жыл бұрын
Where do you learn anything about them?
@Sondergarden2 жыл бұрын
Wherever the Dutch and British were colonizing, the Danes were not far behind. It actually works well for Denmark, because they got to profit very handsomely off of colonialism while skirting the vast majority of the negative press aimed at the larger counterpart nations. It really pays to be the junior partner
@pjacobsen10002 жыл бұрын
@@Sondergarden Thanks for the compliment.
@alfredmujahjimmy65002 жыл бұрын
It's our National Day very soon on Wednesday and I would like to thank you for uploading this special video about Malaysia's takeover of a British company called Guthrie and all of these related to plantations in my native Malaysia.
@nobitanobi88882 жыл бұрын
15:39 "These British companies walked away with a pile of money for their Malaysia assets. But after the sale, hardly any of them spent or invested that money well. For decades, they were plantation landlords tending to a passed-down legacy. What did they know about starting something new?" Ouch. Burnnnn.
@dareka94252 жыл бұрын
It's not surprising and I don't see any reason to laugh at them. The earlier generations will always be the innovators while the later ones are tasked to maintain them. Two different skills sets that changed over the century. I mean theses companies are returning home to compete with their own fellow countrymen who are entrenched more deeply locally. My grandparents were farmers and own some lands. Don't expect me to carry on their legacy since I was raised in the city and have no interest in toiling the land. I recently moved back to the village as a teacher but I couldn't care less about the farms. A decade ago there was bloodbath, figuratively, when everyone started to claim long forgotten pieces of land from one another to make palm oil estates for a new government agricultural. The legacy passed down from the elders through verbal promises and tree stumps/rocks/streams as land borders is no match from a village chief and his sons with a lawyer.
@JohnsonChiw2 жыл бұрын
Agree as a Malaysian, Gutherie Raid was a milstone to Malaysia and a good message been sent to former colonial power. Yet the aftermath, elites who took over didn't go thru much change on management, just continue what left in colonial legacy to exploit estate workers.
@Sickboyfriend2 жыл бұрын
So.. "meet the new boss, *something something* the old boss"
@AJ-zv9tn2 жыл бұрын
@@Sickboyfriend ah yes
@hughmungusbungusfungus46182 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the proper way to go through something like this would be to break the company's assets up into smaller chunks and setup a number of smaller companies that would then compete. Also, repatriating all those migrant workers was probably also necessary.
@danielch66622 жыл бұрын
@@hughmungusbungusfungus4618 too late to repatriate anybody. Most have been here a hundred years. That's like repatriating Trump today because his grandparents came from Germany.
@hughmungusbungusfungus46182 жыл бұрын
@@danielch6662 I wasn't aware they kept the Indians there that long. Still, that sort of thing has been done before, like when the Japanese were expelled from Taiwan for instance.
@blablabla654052 жыл бұрын
One of the main architects for the dawn raid was the late tan sri khalid ibrahim, really savvy businessman and a great chief minister for selangor but got stab in the back by his own party leader in 2014. I have huge respect for the late khalid ibrahim but not nothing for the other guy.
@jonathantan24692 жыл бұрын
He was the Chief Minister of my state, and I say he would be the best one up to date. Especially when you compare him to the CM before him... who was quite corrupt...
@danielch66622 жыл бұрын
14:12 pic, named in caption, but not named in the narration. He was a good guy, and DSAI deserves to never be PM for betraying him. Serves him right that Azmin Ali would later stab him in the back as well. He saved up all that enormous pile of cash in the state gov's coffers, and just as it was nearly enough, they just couldn't help themselves. Anybody know what happened to all they money?
@smaug.the.stupendous2 жыл бұрын
It was Tun M leadership
@deltahunter23022 жыл бұрын
National interest and politics is two different things. 🤦🏻♂️
@pokuda-man2 жыл бұрын
Jemin is the mastermind who got all fooled, he ask Nuar to dismiss Khalid for Wan Azizah but later promote himself to sultan. And then after win General Ellection , he stab both Madey n Anwar with disgraceful Sheraton Move , now Mahiaddin choose Sabri as successor he went missing, (Missing to plan next stabbing move) now left with no support n Trust from any malays. Jemin is the real Musuh dalam selimut in Malaysia, if he still win any seat in next GE , confirm there will backdoor goverment again. The Snake Master Jemin is the worst political figure in Malaysia, no vision and legacy, just Hungry for Power.
@hitension72 жыл бұрын
Correction: Sime is pronounced as “sai-m” as in “time”, not “si-me”
@CatnamedMittens2 жыл бұрын
It really doesn't matter how it's pronounced as you understood the message.
@danielch66622 жыл бұрын
@@CatnamedMittens we pedants just can't help ourselves. And corrections improves everybody.
@abhitron2 жыл бұрын
@@CatnamedMittens Going by that logic, you would continuously mispronounce someone's name as long as everyone else knew which person you were referring to.
@hailyrizzo54282 жыл бұрын
@@CatnamedMittens It matters, Muttons
@Forrest_dev2 жыл бұрын
Truly appreciate the work you put into this channel. Thank you.
@MrWphilips2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this illuminating history lesson. As a result I now have a positive understanding of Malaysian history, and respect for the successful results!
@guppy7192 жыл бұрын
Well lets see for starters the Malay were close to the British mainly for security reasons. Both Communist forces and Indonesia threatened their sovereignty. Also you are describing a hostile take over which is probably why people still invested money in Malaysia afterword's its not like they just nationalized everything they bought it. also contributing the growth in GDP to buying an industry is a big stretch.
@geneballay95902 жыл бұрын
Great video. Having lived in both Indonesia and Malaysia, and elsewhere in SE Asia, I have always wondered about how the differences in prosperity arose. Your documentary is very informative. Thank you for the work, and sharing.
@readmeat4vegans8292 жыл бұрын
Despite the click-bait title (I admit there is an assumption I made, but I believe that assumption would be widespread) - this was a very fair and balanced, and in-dept treatment of the way Malaysia recovered their countries assets from their former colonial masters. Well done!
@Natan03932 жыл бұрын
As a Brazilian I would say we have sooo much to learn. We are doing the exact opposite from what Malaysia has done over these decades. We simply let the foreigners to take control over our natural resources, either directly by letting them explore throughout their enterprises, or indirectly by exchanging those natural resources for manufactured and technological goods, which we are not able to produce either, due to our lack of industry and technology investments over the centuries. When are we going to learn?
@Coz1312 жыл бұрын
Malaysia isn't a shining example this day and age either.
@gingerteddy6182 жыл бұрын
@@Coz131 look at the positive sides
@Sarah-yg8kt2 жыл бұрын
@@Coz131 another self hating malaysian.
@answerman9933 Жыл бұрын
No one solution works for every country.
@mikolowiskamikolowiska499311 ай бұрын
Or you could use your resources instead of stealing I other ppl hard work and sactifice
@chengmunwai2 жыл бұрын
14:08 - The man on the right (Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim) is usually credited as leading the "Dawn Raid" in 1981. He passed away on 31st July 2022, 29 days before this video was uploaded.
@zulimanismail19662 жыл бұрын
The best MB of Selangor..no wonder terengganu now have excellent management as he is a model and take part in advice for terengganu administration..
@adamesd36992 жыл бұрын
I just watched a KZbin video on the 1956 Suez Crisis and I think there is some similarity between Malaysia’s Guthrie raid and Egypt’s nationalization of the Suez Canal. (With the obvious difference that Malaysia didn’t get invaded by an angry Britain). Both were surprise actions by developing countries trying to regain control over their resources. In both situations the British owners got paid for their shares. And the result was similar in both situations. The Malaysians managed to run the plantation companies well and got the profits to the benefit of Malaysia. And the Egyptians (with Greek help) managed to run the Canal well and got the profits to the benefit of Egypt.
@irone70502 жыл бұрын
The Brits failed to defend Malaya from the Japanese during ww2 so it would be the malays who should be angry if the Brits still have the audacity to keep sucking money and resources from the colony
@NotLikeWhatYouThink2 жыл бұрын
Yea british run away..when japanese colonized..
@mab7727 Жыл бұрын
This channel is grow by 1k every one to two days! Well deserved!
@jasC19332 жыл бұрын
Really appreciate what you did for yr channel. Profound n updated.👍
@ngjiherhn40342 жыл бұрын
As a Malaysian interested in my country's history, the Guthrie Raid was a real turning point for the nation as we basically played the British's system and won at it too. Having all the plantations ceding ownership one after the other as a result, it was probably the most Malaysian thing for our government to pseudo-nationalise our industries while still keeping MNC confidence in the country, its honestly a bit understated how brilliant the Guthrie raid was. Also thanks for covering the Indian plantation workers as its true there's still systemic inequality for these Indians in rural areas to this day.
@annoloki2 жыл бұрын
The "coolies", yeah you find them scattered all around the Pacific. We get to tell ourselves that we "ended slavery" because we eventually fought to stop the African slave trade, but very few here in Britain know how we simply replaced the trade of Africans with the trafficking of Indians. We're very familiar with the plight of African Americans due to the anti-American sentiment that began when they won independence from England (Empire's forget, but they never forgive) but trafficking Indians across the Pacific continued til 1913, their plight is unheard of. Unlike Africans, who had to be bought, Indians were part of the empire, so they could just be tricked into signing away their "freedom". Far more profitable. Very sad stories.
@Banom7a2 жыл бұрын
@@annoloki and renamed them "indentured labour" but at the end of the day its almost the same thing
@RichardLaurence2 жыл бұрын
As a Brit, I say “well done!”
@DwAboutItManFr2 жыл бұрын
At least it wasn't immoral.
@junaideej.k76342 жыл бұрын
where can i go to learn more of malaysian history such as this?
@mariusj85422 жыл бұрын
I mean, Respect to the Malaysians….Not just nationalization and taking over foreign assets by the military, but actually playing the game, well done!
@syafsmith50852 жыл бұрын
Never underestimate the determination of the Malays.
@TheMan-xp4cb2 жыл бұрын
No nationalisation We bought the co. from them
@FauziahAbdullah7152 жыл бұрын
But we still are shy and polite people yaaa..
@alanywalany64607 күн бұрын
@@TheMan-xp4cb That is nationalisation. The majority of nationalisations occur that way. The rotting lies put into people by the rulers are heinous
@iginheo2 жыл бұрын
The most underappreciated KZbin channel put out another good one. Thanks
@Mkoivuka2 жыл бұрын
I hope the success of your channel with 329k subs, is a sign that Europeans and Americans are more interested in Asia - and feel its development to be more important than in the past.
@RN14412 жыл бұрын
It's nice to see examples of these stories where the taken over assets are competently run rather than run into the ground. I am still of the impression that this is the exception rather than the rule, but it's the exceptions that are interesting.
@NoneStar2 жыл бұрын
When you said raiding I assumed a coercive attack through force, they effectively just used market strategies to acquire assets. If anything this was an extremely gentlemanly way of going about acquiring resources back from people who literally used military force to acquire them from you to begin with. Glad they were able to get it back in this manner.
@davidholder3207 Жыл бұрын
The British replaced the Portuguese and the Dutch from Malaysia by trade and knowing how to use the countries nobility. Just as they had done with India.
@thedoer2 жыл бұрын
Like how the report is unbiased, telling things as it is.
@a11u452 жыл бұрын
As someone who has a relative who used to work for Sime Darby, it's not pronounced as 'see-mer' instead, Sime rhymes with dime.
@JinFX2 жыл бұрын
South and South East Asia have a shared culture. The upper caste welcomes the colonizers as long as the lower caste does all the work.
@zenith89722 жыл бұрын
Product of Indianization .
@seanwieland97632 жыл бұрын
Because human networks are necessarily Pareto distributions, aka scale-free networks. Stable and scalable networks have to be power law distributed like that. Equalized / Gaussian bell-curve networks breed instability and collapse. It’s literally the complete opposite of what people who teach the Gini coefficient preach. Inequality is a feature not a bug. Equality leads to further unrest and then collapse.
@rollinghippo29402 жыл бұрын
@@seanwieland9763 agree, literally the same as animals food chain pyramid
@jonahansen2 жыл бұрын
@@seanwieland9763 Well said. Political systems would do well to understand that there is an inherent distribution of peoples abilities and desires. Lack of outcome equality does not necessarily imply unfairness or exploitation.
@gabbar51ngh2 жыл бұрын
@@zenith8972 Pareto principle is common everywhere.
@alistairmcelwee74672 жыл бұрын
Fascinating. So interesting that the Malay path to Independence was so mild & yet even still the Brits tried to deceive and to extract fortunes from what became Malaysia. Think how large the British Empire was, and then imagine Brits doing this in every country they colonized. Then, next time you walk around England and marvel at the lovely architecture etc., ask yourself, who suffered in a horrible position in a far off land so that Britain could like like this? As a colonial, and an Anglophile to a certain extent, I have to admit that my first degree was in the decolonization of the Brit & French Empires in the 40s thru 70s. I learnt how dreadfully my fellow Commonwealth subjects were treated. Pity we did not look at Malaysia.
@thehumancanary1312 жыл бұрын
What!! Absolute B.S. The British fought a war in Malaysia to give them their independence - and built most of their infrastructure!! If it wasn't for the British - Malaya would have been a satellite communist state in S. E. Asia!!
@niessin14832 жыл бұрын
Well the Malay did take a look of the British Property at first , but the leader at that time father of independence Tunku Abdul Rahman would do anything necessary get independence from British even tho they know most of economic infrastructure still owned by them. Until Dr Mahathir launch a dawn raid to secure Malaysia economy . Edit : for 200 year under British Colonials the malay spesifically cannot admit themself undertaking other economy beside fishing and agriculture doesnt receive any pay and eat their daily caught.While other races such as Indian and Chinesse are able to create their own business and partaking most of British industry.
@hassankhuzmawi28342 жыл бұрын
@@niessin1483 447 Years of Colonial including Holland, UK, Portugese and Japanese
@asmrlova2 жыл бұрын
@@niessin1483 Segregation by the colonizers (plural) left us with no choice. We can argue about this all day long but it'll only end up in circles.
@marquis90742 жыл бұрын
Brits MO has always been soft subjugation coupled with divide and conquer and economic exclusion of native works wonder in keeping native impoverished and rebellion at bay
@MoonLiteNite2 жыл бұрын
The ending of this video nailed it. People always cry that someone is getting paid "sooo little" or "below min wage" but, after time, those people work themselves up, and a new group of people are the "cheapest labor". And then the cycle repeats...
@raylopez992 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: around 25 million tonnes of rubber are produced each year, of which 30 percent is natural. So natural rubber still rules, as it's more sticky and superior to synthetic rubber.
@sshko1012 жыл бұрын
the real secret is in ideal mixture of both and some extra additives. Synthetic rubber is transparent and the natural one is brownish yellow. I even have one pair of shoes with high content of natural rubber, but thay are quite slippery on rubberised surfaces on children playgrounds. I even encountered at one point a book on all the characteristics of the different materials for shoe soles - it's actually quite complicated.
@rashidahmad78302 жыл бұрын
I just watched this video. I learnt some interesting facts. I am quite aware of the history of the plantation industry, having worked in Harrisons. As much as I admire the British, I am cognizant of how they exploited the resources and labour in the colonies of their Empire. I make this observation in the context of the recent passing of Queen Elizabeth II. The world has made many compliments of her. No doubt as a person she was admirable. However, she was part of a system and monarchy that earlier on grabbed land and resources around the world, while subjugating the local people in these lands. The British monarchy has never owned up to this fact and made amends for their misdeeds. The video narrated how Guthrie and Sime Darby resisted ceding control of their estates for a long time, leading PNB to conduct the dawn raid. The rest is history. In the aftermath of the negotiated takeover I benefited personally by gaining employment in Harrisons. It would not have been the case if it was still British owned. For this I am grateful. I am sad to note that while we obtained control of the British plantations in the 1980s, since then we have not treated the workers equitably by granting them fair wages.
@user-cq2sx8hi2v2 жыл бұрын
India's Kohinoor "Diamond"
@deltahunter23022 жыл бұрын
We? We tu employer.. Estet la patut bayar gaji berpatutan.🤦🏻♂️
@deltahunter23022 жыл бұрын
@@user-cq2sx8hi2v Afrika said that it was theirs not India. 🤔
@user-cq2sx8hi2v2 жыл бұрын
@Delta Hunter we can share,half each no prob.
@donbrashsux2 жыл бұрын
Excellent presentation of this history in Malaysia
@khaleedairil19752 жыл бұрын
one of the unbiased foreigner review on Malaysias history.
@einstein99013 ай бұрын
There was something you left out. A large portion of plantations were also owned by the south Indians chettiar families as well, providing good facilities for the local working Indians over there. Seeing the nationalisation of other countries forcing foreignenrs to secede their property to locals or face forced takeover or death (such as in burma), they sold their properties to the Chinese for dimes on the dollar and most of them left. A memory of their vast hold of their business empire in British Malaya are old Chettiar managed temples built around Malaysia.
@ahmadhijaz16312 жыл бұрын
The man headed the raid recently passed away.
@chinkayeok61172 жыл бұрын
Well researched and the labor conditions remain true.
@Nedumgottil2 жыл бұрын
12:03 - Funny story, made a joke saying that he looks similar to the current CM of Kerala. Turns out Mahathir is part Malayali.
@zaar30802 жыл бұрын
Mahathir bin Mohamad bin Kutty
@syafsmith50852 жыл бұрын
Hence why Malay nationalists who felt betrayed by him called him “Mamak Kerala.” Which is hilarious.
@zaar30802 жыл бұрын
@@syafsmith5085 Malay+India=Mamak . But not sure till what generation as mamakness got dilute through generations lolz.
@toreditahrin37172 жыл бұрын
Mahathirs father was Kerala Indian and his mother was Malay.
@Sarah-yg8kt2 жыл бұрын
@@toreditahrin3717 I think it was mahathir's grandfather who was mamak. Mamak is indian muslim, not india+malay
@eggizgud2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this. Maybe for the next one focusing on particular countries, you can get locals to help with pronunciations of certain terms and names. You did well here except for Sime Darby.
@yuglesstube2 жыл бұрын
This channel is always interesting.
@poovaneswaransupramaniam67062 жыл бұрын
Wonderful video and am accurate depiction of the Malaysia historical past..and yes...the plight of Indian plantation workers are still not cared for till today
@MarkWongUSA2 жыл бұрын
As a Malaysian, I can relate
@crafty_prop2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the explanation. Lots of younger generation doesnt even understand why things were this way. They make a conclusion that this is because our predecessor are racist thats why theres inequality with the economic policy. Well, it was bias from the start and in order to make it equal, it had to be tipped the other way. Unfortunately, the balance still hardly achieved to this day. The Malays are still waaayy behind, only expect subsidies from the government and asking for bribery.
@000n62 жыл бұрын
That’s what you get when you’ve been colonised for 400+ years. Hard to blame them though. They lost everything. A kingdom, freedom, peace, prosperity. If you put yourself in their shoes and try to understand, it makes sense why they’re the way they are. Also why they’re very protective of their culture, religion and status because that’s all that remains from the past. For people who have everything taken away from them, it’s hard to view things in the same light. They need time to build themselves and find their way around again. It’s important they do because they are the majority after all. They prosper, the country prospers.
@deltahunter23022 жыл бұрын
@@k-force8325 racist!
@EldenLord11422 жыл бұрын
65 years still the same cock story when will the malay people become economically independent without special rights
@tanjoy02052 жыл бұрын
TLDR:Eating the Rich +Internal corruption/incompetence =Not a good time .
@doughboyjr94182 жыл бұрын
conflicting narrative from the japan video
@butterdubs22672 жыл бұрын
@@doughboyjr9418 it's a complex subject, what do you expect?
@nexusyang48322 жыл бұрын
Truth.
@Chuck85412 жыл бұрын
Yup. A tale as old as time…
@Chuck85412 жыл бұрын
@Lycanthrope It depends on your perspective. True from economic terms ‘at the time’ some of the peoples lives have been improved. But to what end? The vast majority of that financial resources just stayed in the hands of a few rich people. Who cares if it’s Brit’s, or Malay? Furthermore, by international standards, it’s still considered an impoverished and developing country, just as it was back then.
@jameswatt72492 жыл бұрын
The Chinese should think about this when they buy massive amounts of farm land around the world.
@yohaneschristianp2 жыл бұрын
Not only for Chinese, others too.
@tommos12 жыл бұрын
The Chinese that held those Malay land holdings were KMT elites. They're living in Taiwan now.
@teoengchin2 жыл бұрын
Chinese businesses buy land based on willing-buyer-willing-seller. British colonized a country and gave themselves the land. Big difference
@AJ-zv9tn2 жыл бұрын
@@yohaneschristianp china is the major people doing this
@Kabodanki2 жыл бұрын
@@teoengchin Whataboutism at it finest, but the british is long gone, china is doing it nowadays. China have also illegal operations, having mines in countries without the authority consent, putting up debt trap (willing buyer and seller doesn't work here), fishing in other country waters, straight up slavery. This is happening today.
@Kod1ark2 жыл бұрын
Some said the British still own Malaysian assets. Which is why Malaysia growth is so slow n depends too much on foreign investors in order to grow
@mukminlah44392 жыл бұрын
Please do more about malaysia thanks 👍🏻🇲🇾
@ernestbao32872 жыл бұрын
very well done!!! Keep it up.
@bagatis12 жыл бұрын
We also have to highlight the fact that Malaysia didn't follow the path of Indonesia in nationalising our assets because the Brits effectively defanged the socialist faction in then pre-independence Malaya. Try finding out about Ibrahim Yaakob of Kesatuan Melayu Muda and V kanapathy Pillay. But i also agree it was good move because capitalism allowed Malaysia to pull ahead of other former colonised countries faster especially when compared to Indonesia or India.
@ronaldhee66082 жыл бұрын
A usual, great stuff! BTW it's Sime as in Lime.
@danielch66622 жыл бұрын
10:53 "Sime" in Sime Darby is a single syllable. It's named after William Sime and Henry Darby. The name is pronounced the normal way an English speaker would.
@johnwright93722 жыл бұрын
The Malaysians may have gained independence, only to exchange their colonial exploiters for domestic ones who set up a corrupt kleptocracy.
@plantedlife2 жыл бұрын
U talking about Najib and that yacht Chinese guy who went missing? I forgot his name
@IskandarRohadi2 жыл бұрын
We're throwing them one by one to jail currently.
@zouminlandau67532 жыл бұрын
@@IskandarRohadi Good riddance to all corrupt leaders.
@TheRahsoft Жыл бұрын
One of the aspects of the NEP was the bumi discount on housing ( paid for by the other non bumi homeowners). You were supposed to only apply it on your main property, but abuse of the system was rife. My wife( and her millionaire sister) were able to purchase multiple properties using this system... Corruption hasn't changed that much in Malaysia, unfortunately. They still have the term "coffee money"
@rnb2502 жыл бұрын
Fascinating, you have a very wide area of expertise.
@malithaw2 жыл бұрын
Bumiputra means sons of the land, rather than the soil(Boomi means land) but i guess the meaning is slightly deviated in malay. Still, it's pretty cool to see that Malaysians using still Sanskrit terms.
@chickensoup98692 жыл бұрын
Russians too.
@clarkkent97272 жыл бұрын
Indian influence back in the old day
@meowiguess9032 жыл бұрын
Correct. When I heard he translated them to sons of the soil, it sounds so wrong. Oh well, English...
@NotLikeWhatYouThink2 жыл бұрын
Its bumiputera..son of soil..putera/putra means prince..bumi actually not land..its actually refer to earth..land we called tanah in malay languanges..in english soil.Malay the only race refer land and sea as their country..previously we followed hinduism our dna show we not indian..austronesian and austroasiatik..malay was natives..while indian in malaysia consider non natives..british brought to malaya..indian population in malaysia only little..while in indonesia philiphines,brunei,vietnam where this natives live..also rare to find indian😁
@smaug.the.stupendous2 жыл бұрын
Malaysian here. This is a well researched article. I remember how livid the iron lady was when she got outplayed by Dr. M.
@cyzcyt2 жыл бұрын
I am thoroughly disappointed with how the Chinese business and political leaders handled the political situation in the 70s. It was their self serving actions and pride that led to the worsening of the class gap into a racial economic political struggle. They let our own people down They ineffectively managed the situation and let the second generation of politicians spread racially inflaming rhetoric . When in fact only the few rich families and business owners are the ones who are the real rich. Those guys have made their money and have left the country. The rest of us are no better than the average working class. Working in the cities for pittance. Barely even able to pay rent. Yet we let them have their affirmative action policies. Further polarizing the divide of the urban and rural, the wealthy property owners and the working class into a racial issue that isn't reflective of the real situation. Decades later, today. We are still as unintegrated as ever. Even though millions of the people have left their rural homes to gather wealth in urban centers. Millions of people are still stuck in their own enclaves, uninterested in integration August is the month of celebration for the country's independence. It's just disappointing that the real people who benefitted from all this are the real crooks
@fartingfury2 жыл бұрын
As a frequent Western visitor to Malaysia, I'm always struck by how poor most Malays I see are, despite half a century of some incredibly forceful affirmative action, to the point that I'd actually call it racism against other races. It seems that no matter who the ruling classes in Malaysia are, they somehow manage to keep most of the wealth to themselves ...
@calvyncraven11412 жыл бұрын
@@fartingfury in reality, the affirmative actions mostly only benefit the Malays connected to power. The rest get some handouts (placement quota for higher education and government jobs) and false pride knowing that their leaders got rich and powerful
@jonathantan24692 жыл бұрын
@@fartingfury The problem was the NEP focused on race rather than class & economic standing. The benefits flowed mostly to the political & economic elite (Malay royals, Malay ruling-coalition politicians, Chinese business elite & ruling-coalition aligned politicians, and a few Indian upper caste elites). For the majority of the poor, they got some small slices of the pie. The Indian working class got even less & to this day are disproportionately affected by poverty. As for the aboriginal indigenous Orang Asli, they probably got the least... and in fact, much of their forested ancestral lands were taken away by the plantation companies... including by some of those mentioned in this video... Had the NEP prioritized class & economic standing, the poor Malays and Indians would have still benefitted.... with a larger share.
@fartingfury2 жыл бұрын
@@jonathantan2469 Sounds about right. And with less stark inequality, we might see less racial tension... Edit: Spelling of "racial"
@llcx73192 жыл бұрын
What exactly have the Chinese business and political leaders done in the 70s?
@captainmee34692 жыл бұрын
for me as bumiputra people... it like victory to us... imaging that u become slave at your land , when economy in that land bumiputra / malay just own 2.4 / 3 % .... imaging how poor we are before
@albertwong19192 жыл бұрын
U need to give credit to Mahathir for he was the driving force behind the NEP, he ruled Malaysia for 24+ years. Maybe u can shed some light on whether it was good for Malaysia or not but after he left Malaysia leaders look lost and clueless at times.
@zedono13912 жыл бұрын
The first prime minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, needed the British to help combat the communist and Malaya was not only a young country but a very poor one too. He wouldn't dare to anger the British and knew very well, without British help, the Indonesians under Soekarno would have invaded Malaya easily. Soekarno took over Sumateran kingdoms by murdering all the Sultans or threatening them to give up their thrones and kingdoms. Indonesians went on to conquer West Papua and Timor Leste.
@wizlee-dev2 жыл бұрын
The Malaysian history curriculum should include more of these content. Btw do you share any references that you used to make videos? That would be very helpful in making a source more credible especially if it cited good sources
@dougreid23512 жыл бұрын
Grammar & pronunciation problems aside, I am subscribing. Well done. DOUGout
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@casparcoaster19362 жыл бұрын
Really interesting story, my thanks!
@ozzo8702 жыл бұрын
This channel would be better, more reliable, and intellectually honest if youd put the sources you used in the video description.
@calvyncraven11412 жыл бұрын
Watch Dawn Raid. Its a movie produced by Malaysians
@ucx-s90402 жыл бұрын
@@calvyncraven1141 Why would I watch something made by low IQ people, in an industry which is funded by the low IQ people in the government who get voted in by the low IQ population
@mrsith14022 жыл бұрын
Like the way the Malaysians handled this
@hafizizawawi88332 жыл бұрын
Unlike surrounding ASEAN countries who nationalize (read:forcefully take over) assets, lands etc belong to previous colonist, Malaya thru Alliance Party(Parti Perikatan) preferred to work with the Brits and other foreign people. The Malay even granted the Chinese & Indian full citizenship and not asking the Brits to send them back to their original country!. 13 May 1963 really is the turning point in Malaya history when the Government decided that the origin people of the land (aka Bumiputera/Malay) should have bigger economic participation and hold more economic percentages. New Economic Policy(1971) targeted 30% Bumiputera equity holding by 1990s. Just imagine the original people of the land only target 30% of the total equity and not 100%!. Back to the topics, the Dawn Raid showed that Malay led administration always tried to negotiate with the Brits but they don't want to collaborate thus Tun Dr Mahathir was forced to execute the Dawn Raid plan. If the plan did not materialized, Malaysia will not become economically prosperous like now.
@000n62 жыл бұрын
Wasn’t accepting immigrants one of the conditions when they did the discussion to achieve independence? The Brits proposed the idea bcs they were broke at that time, don’t have the money to send them back and wasn’t even thinking of cleaning up the issue they will bring. ‘Deal with them yourself’. So technically we were literally forced to accept them. Being the nice tolerating person the locals are and longing independence for 400+ years.. we accept them anyway.. with conditions. Well I think everyone knows what those conditions are just whether you want to acknowledge it or not. The result of that… well I wouldn’t say it’s all bad.. but it wasn’t good either. A lot of social, political and economical issues stemming from this haven’t been resolved.
@hafizizawawi88332 жыл бұрын
@@000n6 immigration issue is one of the issue press upon the Malaya's leader due to the Brits being broke. IF, the Malay insist on the Brits taking care of it and wait out like Brunei did, Malaya might still gained independence. Brunei did gained independence in 1984. Due to China Closed Door(communism) policy and India-Pakistan partition issue, i believe what already happen in Malaya at that time, might be for the best.
@asmrlova2 жыл бұрын
Brits enforced segregation to control the multi ethnics/races in Malaya and then had the audacity to use 'unity' as a requirement to award independence.
@domiworks12 жыл бұрын
Correction please: Indonesia gained its independence in 1945 and not 1949. Interesting video by the way.
@mariaannainditahernawati71322 жыл бұрын
yah menurut kita thn 1945 tapi menurut org luar indonesia sah thn 1949 berdasarkan perundingan antara pbb, indonesia dan belanda yg merasa sdh bangun aset begitu byk dan hrs mengambil alih voc yg bangkrut pelabuhan, jalan raya, jalur kereta, dam, benteng dan bangunan yg bahkan ada di daerah yg jauh dari pelabuhan aka pedalaman cmiiw
@singolodoyo-bs3wb2 жыл бұрын
1945 independence day of Indonesia 1948 recognition by the Colonist Dutch
@hasfian79802 жыл бұрын
Secara de facto berbeda dgn de jure....
@danialhussin77472 жыл бұрын
They weren't anglophiles. They were the replacement of Malay rulers who defied the British, they were the friendly cousins of the king. Kedah sultans land was sold off to Siam and later half was absorbed back into malaya. Leaving Patani to Siam, and kedah sultan joined malaya. During the end of the perak Wars. The king of perak was dethroned and sent to the Seychelles. The selangor king was replaced when he didn't want to sign the Malayan Union. JohorRiau king was dethroned by his prime minister who then became the modern king of johore.
@ngjiherhn40342 жыл бұрын
Technically this isn't relevant, this history didn't necessarily shape the views of the following generations which were British educate either in the UK or Australia and would later form the government of Malaysia. Also wouldn't it be counterproductive to push for independence if you're just a British puppet doing their bidding?
@junaideej.k76342 жыл бұрын
Where can i go to learn all these things?
@MrGreghome2 жыл бұрын
The British came only because the Malay Sultans were squabbling among themselves and needed a bigger gun by their side. This was the case with Perak, Pahang, and Selangor. Kedah leased Penang off in hopes to defying the Siamese. Johor crown was definitely a Anglophile though as the Sultan did marry an Englishwoman.
@danialhussin77472 жыл бұрын
@@junaideej.k7634 you have to live in Malaysia, because alot of it only survived through word of mouth as publishings of anti British writings never survived propagation. The selangor king's story I heard from his surviving lineage. I asked why you had a tun in your name being so young. It is because his great great grandfather was the sultan of selangor and dethroned by the British when he did not agree to sign the Malayan union. Very dark skinned, unlike the current royals who came from mix breedings with their British overlords.
@aqilazaim52102 жыл бұрын
but tunku abdul rahman is an anglophile.He even had a british wife
@mreddysmarkhenzy62572 жыл бұрын
The lesson you can get from this story was 1) Don't being a THIEF as British that robbed and stealing other people asset. 2) If other country stealing or robbed any of your country asset, what do your feel? The Malaysian's Leaders did an absolutely perfect moved to take back what's was robbed. #KARMA
@alphaomega38362 жыл бұрын
Its just like giving the safe box key to the robbers to take care.
@雷-t3j11 ай бұрын
how did the British steal assets from Malaysia? They turned unproductive land into profitable plantations and extracted resources from the ground that would otherwise have been left sleeping. Not to mention that Malaysia has kept its monarch all the way till today, including under British rule, so Malaysia was not just invaded and oppressedd. But British bad, and Chinese bad, and America bad is far easier to understand for those who do not think, and only see the results and not the work that went into those results.
@Dineshkumar-jf2hz2 жыл бұрын
Very informative
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@syedadeelhussain26912 жыл бұрын
I have lived in Malaysia. Three dominant races on its landscape are not properly integrated. The Indians live in the rural plantation areas, the Malays in their kampongs, and the Chinese in the cities, making them the most cosmopolitan, well-educated and outward-looking western-minded race, which leads the Malaysian economy. After Mahathir came into power, the NEP became more aggressive and the redistribution of wealth began on a long-term footing. Malays aka Bumiputras got cars, bank loans, interest-free loans, lucrative business partnerships, and what not to improve their standard of living. That did improve equality on paper, but, in reality, the Bumiputras remained inefficient, lazy and lacked entrepreneurial talent like the Chinese. Even DR M himself admitted his failure to change Malay attitudes. I guess Malaysia is a classic case study for Behavioural Economists.
@marvin199662 жыл бұрын
Hey Jon, could you do a video on China's plans for moving manufacturing to Africa, like the Made in Africa Initiative? Great vids btw, this one included
@yohaneschristianp2 жыл бұрын
Which part of Africa? Rwanda perhaps?
@marvin199662 жыл бұрын
@@yohaneschristianp I would guess parts of Africa with good access to marine infrastructure, a large amount of natural resources, relatively stable society and young population. If you look at the Initiative's website, you'll see examples in Rwanda and Djibouti, so good thinking on that.
@AQuietNight2 жыл бұрын
The fine print should be included.
@danfairfw2 жыл бұрын
And then there was Joe Lo raiding the Malaysian kitty.
@jonathantan24692 жыл бұрын
His partner in crime was the Malaysian Prime Minister, who recently went to jail for corruption.
@danfairfw2 жыл бұрын
@@jonathantan2469 as Joe is still riding Lo rumored somewhere in China. I read "The Billion Dollar Whale" and was quite impressed when Jordan Belfort of "The Wolf of Wall Street" would not partake in partying with him because he thought he was a scammer.
@buruhtempatan336015 күн бұрын
This guy explained Malaysia's history better than the locals
@HaHaBIah2 жыл бұрын
Thinking about the stereotypes of: Chinese owning the businesses, Malays as fishers and government workers, Indigenous peoples (East Malaysia) as farmers. This is from the perspective of a middle class Chinese family though so I wonder what the stereotype is like elsewhere.
@leezhieng2 жыл бұрын
It's even written like this in the school text books.
@blackrx892 жыл бұрын
if you have life in Malaysia that long, you should know in the history textbook that says this condition; it's call divide and conquer, in which British are expertly so. after taking over the administration (threatening to invade, false flag, bribing, siding with ruling opposition etc), British sought to control the mass they have brought by dividing each race into different sector in which survive to this day, which the only difference is that the current ruling government are no more different than the British themselves
@gingerteddy6182 жыл бұрын
It was describing the old times, happened during the colonial era and early years after independence.
@plantedlife2 жыл бұрын
I feel like the government is trying to preserve the stereotype of Bumiputra = farmers. I had a super hard time getting into an agriculture course as a Chinese Malaysian due to it being 90% reserved for Bumiputra and the course I got is probably Agribusiness 😑. Oh well, if they want to plant that much, they can plant. Leave to selling to me, since that's the message I'm getting. The farmer is not always the land owner anyways 😤. Geram betul
@zouminlandau67532 жыл бұрын
@@plantedlife Geram betul 🤗. Sabar, sabar.
@philoslother46022 жыл бұрын
17:12, your graph shows a 25%-30% decline in real wages, This basically means that the British treated the Malaysian plantation workers better than Malaysians treat their own kind
@Donthaveacowbra2 жыл бұрын
Long story short, violent overthrow of entrenched power just trades one master for another. For modern purposes simply taxing the rich more would be a superior strategy along with well managed government and accountability but eh,
@pfeilspitze2 жыл бұрын
If "well managed government and accountability" was common, we wouldn't need this channel...
@rollinghippo29402 жыл бұрын
Taxing the rich is a slap to the country because they are smart enough to avoid or retaliate, sad fact but the poor will always be the one to be exploited
@sotch22712 жыл бұрын
Using multiple master is one way to get away from that
@Kabodanki2 жыл бұрын
@@sotch2271 Etienne de la boetie wrote a book called discourse of the voluntary serviture, which talk about that.
@davidwilkie95512 жыл бұрын
Kind of a standard picture of Pirate Empires, even the ones before the histories so nicely elaborated in this review. Really interesting to compare the Indian workers to Convicts and other imports to the Australian Colonies.., or any Colonisation for that matter. Thanks for the info.
@chongjunxiang30022 жыл бұрын
When a Chinese (or this KZbinr, a Taiwanese) say Malaysia government raid the rich I thought he is going to talk about nationalized Robert Kuok sugar and flour mill lol But I understand, all the resources regarding Kuok incident are all in Chinese, by Chinese, and extremely bias toward Chinese, especially Chinese sources tend to overdone and victimised themselves over Malay supremacy, instead of resources problem.
@hoppoumuppo6592 жыл бұрын
He even gets indonesia independence fact wrong.
@pradipFRCS2 жыл бұрын
Kuok is still the richest man in Malaysia until today. Despite "nationalisation".
@MrAizatazmi2 жыл бұрын
@@pradipFRCS because kuok is one of mahathir best friend
@blackrx892 жыл бұрын
@@MrAizatazmi which irony why malaysia at most still stupid enough playing these elite political games
@takenbythewindNdrivenbythesea2 жыл бұрын
Of course only the top level executive gained lots of benefits from this raid… Indians and other labours got nothing after British left from Malaya. That’s the fact. The rich just became richer 💰💰💰💰💰💰
@jeyakumarmasilamani76802 жыл бұрын
Tamil people worked as slaves in the plantations and the British enjoyed the profit
@john_doe_not_found2 жыл бұрын
TLDR: The worker on the bottom always gets the shaft.
@johnwright93722 жыл бұрын
You omit to mention that the Malaysian state would gave been overthrown by Maoist guerrillas or Sukarno's expansionist aggression but for extensive British military support in the 50s and 60s.
@midnightsun17282 жыл бұрын
Marxist not Maoist. Look up the Wikipedia entry on Rashid Maidin. He was even in London for the Communist Party's meetings. Mao spoke no English whatsoever.
@zamanreds2 жыл бұрын
We stayed close with the British after our independence due to economic and military interests. Need the British pounds to run the country and their soldiers to fight the enemies while our own gets educated and trained.
@jaimeortega49402 жыл бұрын
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@NSS72 жыл бұрын
Relationship between Malaysia and UK is really bad at one point government promote Buy British Last campaign and introduce Look To East policy to emulate and encourage investor from Japan (at the time 2nd largest economy).
@bowlampar7 ай бұрын
The goal of raiding the rich foreign plantation owners by Malaysian government is not to make every Malaysian benefit from it except to keep the Malay political elite and the largest political party in power in perpetuity especially among Malayan largest electorate group.
@oooshafiqooo2 жыл бұрын
how did youtube suggested this after i just know that there is a raid in malaysia. youtube is doing sus ngl
@ganjendranjayabalan77982 жыл бұрын
We indian men will never give up to build our wealth..... Eventhough in this generation we become poor but as long as we still alive we will keep fighting, working and learning in any field and shows the world our true potential and our next generation that we can be wealthy.......We will never stop for success......
@fungo66312 жыл бұрын
But when it comes to building toilets, you DO give up.
@vikeniswaranpathma85242 жыл бұрын
@@fungo6631 agreed 😁👍
@wenderis2 жыл бұрын
5:51 1945! Indonesia gained its independence in 1945. Everyone recognized this date nowadays, unless you're Dutch.
@resons2 жыл бұрын
while the workers got the shaft under both of them...
@RenegadeRanga2 жыл бұрын
Serious irony in how this video ended.
@emmanueldanielauthor2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant!
@k38oartworkby71 Жыл бұрын
My comment about the correction of Indonesia's independence (it gained itself, not from dutch or other countries) has been DELETED! So, I assume that the author did not comply scientifically.
@Flyingmachines3502 жыл бұрын
Religion transcends economics!
@DarrenLeong2 жыл бұрын
Good informativr video, well done. However as a Malaysian I must say that Sime is pronounce like lime and not si-mee.
@testboga59912 жыл бұрын
So basically the rich Malays raided the rich Brits and nothing really changed.
@jonathantan24692 жыл бұрын
Kinda true. And Malaysia still imports large numbers of foreign labourers... this time from Bangladesh, Nepal, and Myanmar. And yes, many of those labourers are trapped in unfair contracts, debt, and poor conditions. The difference is the vast majority of them will never have the chance to become Malaysian citizens, or even permanent residents. One of the companies mentioned in this video was recently in the news for labour abuse.
@blackrx892 жыл бұрын
rich is subjective here, instead we term they as elite, or very very minority of super riches. while is true they done the deed, the ruling government back then all held by elites (not just the malay but the chinese, and indian whom share same interest and wanted to preserved the status quo). nobody is spare ironically the ex prime minister of the said ruling government just was sentence recently for corruption and embezzlement, and his wife. justice for these past 3 decades what a time
@jopesulaiman2 жыл бұрын
@@jonathantan2469 are u Malaysian? if u hate malaysia no need to create story.about citizenship are true.its very hard to get. then why 1.2 mil chinese mainland overstay here. maybe to get abuse.
@ANHarris7832 жыл бұрын
@@jonathantan2469 They are here to work to feed their family back home NOT to get citizenship.They are all working with private companies , factories and tauke NOT govt employee . Those private companies, factories and employees should be responsible for everything . Majority are Chinese employees, companies, factories some japanese , korean , european .The true rascals are local Chinese yes your people !
@XGORILLA-w3l2 жыл бұрын
@@jonathantan2469 aiyoo, Chinese from China always overstay in Malaysia, that mean Malaysia is better than china (the mighty US rival)? And you do realise that most of the company they work for own by the Chinese business man.
@darmarajumunusamy40372 жыл бұрын
What one know about Bangsar.?. infact this modern township in the early 1960 's was owned by Socfin group ..