Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Indonesia and Malaysia, No brotherly love

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Friday, October 12, 2007

Indonesia and Malaysia, No brotherly love

Discord across the Malacca strait

From The Economist print edition, Oct 11th 2007 | BANGKOK

INDONESIANS were gobsmacked to hear the Malaysian tourism board's new advertisements, which feature the old song “Rasa Sayang”. Hey, they cried, that's our tune! The song's title means “Feeling of Love”. But unloving Indonesians cursed their neighbours for “stealing” part of their cultural heritage, just as they are also accused of filching Indonesian art forms such as batik fabric making and wayang shadow-puppetry. Furious politicians in Jakarta demanded that their government sue for breach of copyright, or something.

The chances of any such legal move seem slim: no one knows who wrote the song, or when, or where. Malaysian ministers argue that it has been sung in both countries for ages and so belongs to both. A retired Western diplomat recalls being taught to sing it on his first visit to Malaysia, as an aid volunteer, back in 1970.

The “stolen” tune has provided the background music to a rising discord, mainly over how Malaysia treats the millions of Indonesians working there, legally and illegally. In June Indonesian newspapers published a photograph of an Indonesian maid clinging to a rope made of bed-sheets to descend from an apartment block in Kuala Lumpur and escape her “abusive” employers. The Indonesian embassy there said there were 1,200 cases of abuse of Indonesian maids last year.

In August anti-Malaysian protests spread across Indonesia after plain-clothes police beat up the Indonesian referee of the Asian Karate Championship, being held in Malaysia's capital. This week Indonesia lodged a formal complaint after two of its citizens—one a diplomat's wife—were allegedly mistreated by Rela, a thuggish volunteer force that the Malaysian government uses to track down illegal immigrants. There were calls in Jakarta's parliament for a boycott of Malaysian goods.

Malaysia's prime minister, Abdullah Badawi, and Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, have tried to calm things. In February Mr Yudhoyono gave Mr Badawi a medal and called him “a true friend in good and bad times”. But relations are brittle. Nobody is expecting a return to the early 1960s, when Indonesia pursued konfrontasi, armed confrontation, with the newly formed Malaysia. But it is only two years since both countries sent warships to assert competing claims to an oil-rich patch of sea off Borneo.

Accidents of colonial history—Indonesia was the Dutch-run bit of the East Indies, Malaysia the British bit—help explain the rows over territory and culture. Each country cultivates its own version of a common language, Malay, which ought to unite them but often divides. This week Malaysia's government announced a review of its need for foreign workers and talked of finding them elsewhere. But proximity and cultural and linguistic links make Indonesians the best solution to Malaysia's labour shortage, and Malaysia the best solution to Indonesia's job shortage. It is a pity they cannot stop scrapping and accept this. But, as Shakespeare noted, the near in blood, the nearer bloody.