Ijok from University Students' Perspective

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A group of students went for an exposure trip to the recent Ijok by-election.
Below are the highlight of their experience. You can read it full from the author here.

Their mission...

soak up the election atmosphere,
mingle with the locals, find out their opinions, attitudes,
find out what influences the vote, if they vote based on race,
what their concerns are, how they feel etc.

Their findings...

There were SO many violations, it's not even funny.
It's insulting.
Bloody politicians turned this little town into a circus.
Roads were being tarred, only because there's an election.
It's quite hilarious to see village roads with fresh tar on it.
As if new roads can buy you more votes.
Nobody cares about the roads.
Who cares for new roads that bring in these "political tourists"?
They fix the big roads, make it all fancysmancy
but ignore the little ones that the locals walk on every day.
Nobody we spoke to really believes any of the promises
made by campaigners and politicians. Thumbs up!
If BN loses this Sunday, will they still get RM36 million?
Even if they win, will they still see any of it?

All went well,
our Indian hosts and the estate residents were wonderful!
All went well, until the end of our visit.
Three men, from the the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC)
which is also a part of the ruling party
arrived at the estate and started getting aggressive with us.
Shouting. Being unpleasant thugs. Tried to intimidate us.
They wanted us out.
They obviously didn't want us there talking to the people.
They didn't want us to see the conditions of the estate.
They started threatening us by using a MP's name
(we later found out it was some faraway MP)
They grabbed our questionnaires. Shouted more.
Hostile bunch. Most unpleasant.
They threatened to call a hundred men down to get us
Oh my god we're just students dammit!!!
How immature. Bad taste. Shame on you!
The two indian girls in our group were amazing!
They spoke out, they spoke up!
Respect! I love people who are not passive.

Video of the incident on Youtube

At lunch, we got harassed by a group of Malay men
who were from the Department of Student Affairs or
Jabatan Hal-Ehwal Pelajar from various universities
which I think is basically, this good for nothing group
set up to monitor student activity (on and off campus)
particularly political activism and involvment
particularly government university students.
They came up to us at lunch and started taking photos
without our permission until i yelled at them
asking them who are you why are you taking photos?
Then they pretended not to hear.
They walked off.
They came back three times.
I told them off each time.
Nobody else did anything.
They hid their faces.
I know they can't say much,
they're in government unis,
they're on government scholarship.
See this is precisely the shit they do to intimidate you
and put you in your place,
a place that doesn't get in their way
But they cannot do anything if you fight back!!!
If you just let them do what they do, they get braver.
Our camera man went to return the favour.
We have videos of them and their ugly faces.
We have photos of their vehicles, number plates, logos etc.

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