{"id":2401,"date":"2010-05-03T02:36:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T18:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2010\/05\/malaysian-maverick-mahathir-mohamad-in-turbulent-times\/"},"modified":"2010-05-03T02:36:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T18:36:04","slug":"malaysian-maverick-mahathir-mohamad-in-turbulent-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/malaysian-maverick-mahathir-mohamad-in-turbulent-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/malay-maverickmahat.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/images\/stories\/berita25\/malay-maverickmahat.jpg\" style=\"float: left;\" \/>In 1984 or 1985, when I was an Asian Wall Street Journal correspondent  in <a class=\"  lingo_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asiasentinel.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=2406&amp;Itemid=178%20%3C%3C%20rahsia%20pecah\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"color: blue; border-bottom: 1px dotted; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\">Malaysia,<\/a> an acquaintance called me and said he had  seen a US Army 2-1\/2 ton truck, known as a &#8220;deuce-and-a-half,&#8221; filled  with US military personnel in jungle gear on a back road outside of <a class=\"  lingo_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asiasentinel.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=2343&amp;Itemid=34\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"color: blue; border-bottom: 1px dotted; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\">Kuala Lumpur.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Since Malaysia and the United States were hardly close friends at that  point, I immediately went to the US Embassy in KL and asked what the US  soldiers were doing there. I received blank stares. Similar requests to  the Malaysian Ministry of Defense brought the same response. After a few  days of chasing the story, I concluded that my acquaintance must have  been seeing things and dropped it.<\/p>\n<p> It turns out he wasn\u2019t seeing things after all. In a new book,  &#8220;Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times,&#8221; launched Dec.  4 in Asia, former Asian Wall Street Journal editor Barry Wain solved  the mystery. In 1984, during a visit to Washington DC in which Mahathir  met President Ronald Reagan, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and  others, he secretly launched an innocuous sounding Bilateral Training  and Consultation Treaty, which Wain described as a series of working  groups for exercises, intelligence sharing, logistical support and  general security issues. In the meantime, Mahathir continued display a  public antipathy on general principles at the Americans while his jungle  was crawling with US troops quietly training for jungle warfare.<\/p>\n<p> That ability to work both sides of the street was a Mahathir  characteristic. In his foreword, Wain, in what is hoped to be a  definitive history of the former prime minister\u2019s life and career,  writes that &#8220;while [Mahathir] has been a public figure in Malaysia for  half a century and well known abroad for almost as long, he has  presented himself as a bundle of contradictions: a Malay champion who  was the Malays\u2019 fiercest critic and an ally of Chinese-Malaysian  businessmen; a tireless campaigner against Western economic domination  who assiduously courted American and European capitalists; a blunt,  combative individual who extolled the virtues of consensual Asian  values.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Wain was granted access to the former premier for a series of exhaustive  interviews. It may well be the most definitive picture painted of  Mahathir to date, and certainly is even-handed. Wain, now a writer in  residence at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, is  by no means a Mahathir sycophant. Advance publicity for the book has  dwelt on an assertion by Wain that Mahathir may well have wasted or  burned up as much as RM100 billion (US$40 billion at earlier exchange  rates when the projects were active) on grandiose projects and the  corruption that that the projects engendered as he sought to turn  Malaysia into an industrialized state. Although some in Malaysia have  said the figure is too high, it seems about accurate, considering such  ill-advised projects as a national car, the Proton, which still  continues to bleed money and cost vastly more in <a class=\" lingo_link\" href=\"http:\/\/asiasentinel.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=891&amp;Itemid=32\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"color: blue; border-bottom: 1px dotted; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\">opportunity costs<\/a> for Malaysian citizens forced to  buy any other make at huge markups behind tariff walls. In addition,  while Thailand in particular became a regional center for car  manufacture and for spares, Malaysia, handicapped by its national car  policy, was left out.<\/p>\n<p> Almost at the start of the book, Wain encapsulates the former premier so  well that it bears repeating here: Mahathir, he writes, &#8220;had an  all-consuming desire to turn Malaysia into a modern, industrialized  nation commanding worldwide respect. <a class=\" lingo_link\" href=\"http:\/\/asiasentinel.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=1044&amp;Itemid=31\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"color: blue; border-bottom: 1px dotted; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\">Dr Mahathir<\/a>\u2019s decision to direct the ruling party  into business in a major way while the government practiced affirmative  action, changed the nature of the party and accelerated the spread of  corruption. One manifestation was the eruption of successive financial  scandals, massive by any standards, which nevertheless left Dr Mahathir  unfazed and unapologetic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> That pretty much was the story of Malaysia for the 22 years that  Mahathir was in charge. There is no evidence that Mahathir himself was  ever involved in corruption. Once, as <a class=\" lingo_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asiasentinel.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=2427&amp;Itemid=164\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"color: blue; border-bottom: 1px dotted; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\">Ferdinand Marcos<\/a> was losing his grip on the  Philippines, Mahathir pointed out to a group of reporters that he was  conveyed around in a long black Daimler \u2013 the same model as the British  ambassador used \u2013 that the Istana where he lived was a huge mansion,  that he had everything he needed. Why, he asked, was there any need to  take money from corruption? Nonetheless, in his drive to foster a Malay  entrepreneurial class, he allowed those around him to pillage the  national treasury almost at will, which carried over into Umno after he  had left office and which blights the country to this day.<\/p>\n<p> Wain follows intricate trails through much of this, ranging from the  attempt, okayed by Mahathir, to attempt to rescue Bumiputra Malaysia  Finance in the early 1980s which turned into what at the time was the  world\u2019s biggest banking scandal.<\/p>\n<p> In the final analysis, much as <a class=\" lingo_link\" href=\"http:\/\/asiasentinel.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=974&amp;Itemid=31\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"color: blue; border-bottom: 1px dotted; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\">Lee Kuan Yew<\/a> down the road in Singapore strove to  create a nation in his own image and largely succeeded, so did Mahathir.  Both nations are flawed \u2013 Singapore in its mixture of technological and  social prowess and draconian ruthlessness against an independent press  or opposition, Malaysia with its iconic twin towers and its other  attributes colored by a deepening culture of corruption that has  continued well beyond his reign, which ended in 2003. Mahathir must bear  the blame for much of this, in particular his destruction of an  independent judiciary, as Wain writes, to further his aims. <\/p>\n<p> Mahathir, as the former premier said in the conversation over his  mansion and his car, had everything including, one suspects, a  fully-developed sense of injustice. He appears to this day to continue  to resent much of the west, particularly the British. Wain writes  exhaustively of Mahathir\u2019s deep antagonism over both British elitism  during the colonial days and the disdain of his fellow Malays  (Mahathir\u2019s parentage is partly Indian Muslim on his father\u2019s side),  especially the Malay royalty. That antagonism against the British has  been a hallmark of his career \u2013 from the time he instituted the &#8220;Buy  British Last&#8221; policy for the Malaysian government as prime minister to  the present day. <\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"  lingo_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asiasentinel.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=1691&amp;Itemid=367\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"color: blue; border-bottom: 1px dotted; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\">Robert Mugabe,<\/a> in disgrace across much of the world  for the way his policies have destroyed what was one of the richest  countries in Africa, remains in Mahathir\u2019s good graces. Asked recently  why that was, an aide told me Mugabe had driven the British out of  Zimbabwe and was continuing to drive out white farmers to this day,  although he was replacing them with people who knew nothing of farming.  That expropriation of vast tracts of white-owned land might have  destroyed Zimbabwe\u2019s agricultural production. But, the aide said, &#8220;He  got the Brits out.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> For anybody wishing to understand Mahathir and the nation he  transformed, Wain\u2019s book is going to be a must \u2013 but bring spectacles.  The tiny type and gray typeface make it a difficult read. And a  disclaimer: Wain was once my boss<\/p>\n<table class=\"contentpaneopen\" style=\"height: 50px;\" border=\"0\" width=\"825\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" width=\"70%\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><span class=\"small\">Book Review Written by John Berthelsen <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"createdate\" colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\">Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tis a book by Barry Wain. Palgrave Macmillan, 363pp.  Available through Amazon, US$60.75. Available for Pre-order, to be  released Jan 5.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1984 or 1985, when I was an Asian Wall Street Journal correspondent in Malaysia, an acquaintance called me and said he\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"bo_wartawan":[],"bo_jenis":[],"class_list":["post-2401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c48-news"],"better_featured_image":null,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times  | Buletinonlines.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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