#Penang road

[chilenthailandtravel]

Komtar Building in Penang Island Malaysia

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[fatehbaz]

Today's environments of racialized confinement built on yesterday's colonial plantation.

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[I]t was not simply the enclosing of Malaya's landscape that led to the conditions, framework, and systems of power [...]. [While] enclosure [...] functioned [...] to map and codify the landscape but also to dispossess [...], confinement worked to separate those groups into narrowly prescribed spatial categories that were [...] policed by the state. In the case of Malaya, this separation was governed through race. [...] British administrators [...] weaponized [this policy] [...] with the resettlement of hundreds of thousands [...] into so-called new villages during the emergency period [in the 1950s] [...]. [T]hough British actions during the emergency certainly accelerated forms of confinement [...], the policies and ideas that shaped the creation of these spaces emerged and evolved over the course of the [earlier] colonial period in Malaya. The spatiality of [confinement] [...], in other words, did not simply emerge out of new Cold War military strategies, but was rather built over a geography of confinement established long before the 1940s and 1950s. [...]

The rubber industry, which barely existed at the turn of the twentieth century, quickly became Malaya's primary export commodity by the end of World War One [...]. By 1922, Malaya had over 2,200,000 acres of rubber planted [...]. [F]oreign owned [plantation] estates recruited large numbers of migrant workers from South Asia. Initially brought to Malaya under repressive indentured labor policies [...] [b]etween 1860 and 1957, an estimated four million South Asians traveled to Malaya [...]. [M]obility was a defining characteristic of the plantation labor regime [...]. [T]he infrastructure, living arrangements, and social amenities within the plantation were minutely planned exercises in social control and stratification [...] prescribed along racial and caste lines [...]. The Malayan emergency began in 1948. Following [popular outrage against British plantation managers] [...], the colonial government in Malaya declared a state of emergency across the colony [...] that would last for over a decade. [...] [T]he British colonial state accelerated forms of territorialization and land parcelization in Malaya during the emergency period [as Britain mobilized to crack down on leftist and anticolonial sympathizers].

These efforts [...] involved the complete reimagining and remapping of Malaya's landscape and social geography [...].

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The British undertook this spatial reordering in a number of different ways. One involved the creation of 'White' and 'Black' areas throughout the country. In 'Black' areas, which in early days of the emergency denoted all territory in the colony, people were subject to curfews, food restrictions, and travel bans, including in urban spaces such as Kuala Lumpur and Penang. [...] [B]ut the chief way that the British colonial state manipulated the region's natural and social environment was through its policy of resettlement. Resettlement, which emerged beginning in 1949, was primarily - though not exclusively - directed towards Malaya's large population of Chinese ‘squatters’ [...]. By 1945, [...] an estimated 400,000 Chinese squatters lived in the colony. [...] [T]he British government [...] began the process of forcibly resettling the country's rural Chinese population [...] closer to existing colonial infrastructures such as railways, roads, and rubber estates - where they could be more easily watched and controlled. These new spaces [...] became the centerpiece of Britain's [...] efforts in Malaya [...]. [M]ost new villages were built utilizing a particular planning style that maximized the security of sites and ensured the constant surveillance and policing of its inhabitants. Villages had a perimeter lined with double barbed wire fencing and lighting, guarded entrances, [...] and a police station [...]. Inhabitants of new villages were subject to strict curfews and regular bodily inspections [...].

[These 'White'/'Black' and 'new village' spaces] were not the only methods [of] resettlement or spatial confinement deployed by British forces in the 1950s. In addition to the estimated nearly 450 new villages that British forces established in Malaya, there were also hundreds of so-called 'regrouping areas' created in the colony [...]. These regrouping areas, which included 'labor regrouping areas' as well as 'regrouped Malay kampongs', involved the resettling of Malaya's non-Chinese rural dwellers - especially those within the Indian and Malay communities - into newly constructed spaces. [...] [S]ome of these sites were simply efforts to resettle a commercial firms' working population - for example, moving workers living off-site [...] to 'company housing' on company property [...]. Despite this, the scale of regrouping efforts was noteworthy. In 1954, [...] in addition to the 68 new villages established by Johore by that time, there existed 87 'regrouped Malay kampongs' in the state. In neighboring Pahang, the numbers were even higher. In addition to eighteen 'labour regroupments', there were another 75 'regrouped Malay kampongs' [...] as well as 64 new villages. [...]

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[S]imilar to how spaces like Malay reservations and rubber estates operated in the early colonial period, British agents designed emergency spatial typologies to resettle, confine, and separate the population along racial lines. While Malaya's large Chinese population was primarily resettled in new villages, for instance, spaces such as regrouped Malay kampongs were expressly devoted to the resettlement of the region's Malay communities, while residents of South Asian descent, many of whom worked in the rubber industry, were largely resesttled within or near their places of work in labor regroupment areas. [...]

[A] most striking feature of this new spatial environment [...] [is that] [s]paces such as new villages and regrouping areas [...] were built along familiar pathways and corridors of foreign occupation in the colony, closely mirroring the same [...] geographies that emerged in the early colonial period. [...] [E]mergency spaces such as new villages and regrouping areas were built alongside or on top of the region's large-scale rubber estates, which had emerged in the region [during British colonization] prior to World War Two and that, on a broad scale, had introduced foreign structures of power into areas under 'indirect' colonial rule. This mapping on of sites of confinement and enclosure is significant. While foreign commercial enterprises utilized the introduction of new land laws to occupy Malay's interior [prior to formal colonial annexation] and to install repressive sites of commodity extraction and labor exploitation in the early twentieth century, these same locations became the spatial foundation for later emergency efforts to resettle Malaya's population [...]. In other words, at the same time that British officials during the emergency were accelerating notions of social engineering and policies of confinement adopted from the plantation economy, they were also using the geography of the rubber industry to reimagine and reorganize the spatiality of Malaya on a country-wide scale. [...]

The emergence and expansion of enclosure spaces - whereby the land was surveyed, mapped, and set aside for certain purposes [plantation labor, industrial extraction, and colonial administrative rule] - and confinement spaces - whereby the region's population was separated into particular spatial environments based on race and ethnicity - meant that, over time, Malaya's social and economic geography became one defined by partition and separation [...].

Colonial-era land policies and spatial typologies have continued to impact life in the contemporary world [...].

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Text above by: David Baillargeon. "Spaces of occupation: Colonial enclosure and confinement in British Malaya". Journal of Historical Geography 73, pages 24-35. July 2021. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Text within brackets added by me for clarity. Italicized first sentence/heading in this post added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]

[jonnyparable]

Port Empress

Well, I guess we all knew this was coming. Project redecorate Tomarang. I really am building this world around the Blue Mansion just so it has a world to fit in. TOOL Mod rocks but Sims 4, for some of its merits, is clearly so not designed for world building.

Anyway, even with the wonderful Blowtorch mod, Tomarang is still a little hard to work with as the roads are still there and are pretty silly and circuitous, with walkable paths cutting through the city blocks randomly, so it took a while to shape up but I'm happy with the progress so far.

Port Empress is more based on Penang and Singapore, in the early to mid 20th century period, so its squarely in the colonial era of the Straits settlements. Sadly there's only a few lots to work with but I guess that keeps things simple.

[theweepingegg]

Road rage mostly happens during morning and evening after work. Around small town city at KL is always problematic. I think people there generally hates people and always rush in times.. sheesh 😫 lori is the most annoying always bully us small cars

You’re right though, if someone comes attack me with a bat then that would be a scary situation..

Man.. driving is exhausting.

I rarely encounter angry drivers, thank goodness. But I think we city drivers are considered polite in a way? Because I talked to my co workers who are from out of state(Negeri Johor, Penang, etc etc) and they said that only the city drivers actually gives a fuck about giving signals and honking while behind other vehicles.

I hope you stay safe on the road tau!

[adventuresiew]

A Trip that you won't believe it!

A trip to Malaysia in 2020 didn’t begin the way that was expecting. It was an extremely early start, waking up at 3 am before the Sun peeped its warm head through the clouds. Arriving at Pulau Penang airport was hot. I stepped outside excited to inhale the fresh Malaysian air, but instead, my lungs were filled with awfully cigarette smoke.

Next, my camp decides to go to the hidden hotel first, I step in as quietly as a mouse. The hotel is a grand palace, it was so gorgeous even I think it was a dream full of realistic fresh air. We pack our stuff to our white cabin with clear windows and a bronze brown floor. A bright red bus arrives with limited speed on a dusty black road to pick us up, our feet begin to start an orange fire to quickly run toward it. When I step on the bus it’s full of the disgusting smell of cigarettes in the smoking area before the bus gets here.

The bus takes us to a restaurant where full of colorful sparkling butterflies called “Entopia”, a clean restaurant welcoming us with a grin and smile. Many people there use their hands to eat food which makes me very shocked because in Thailand we use clean forks and spoons when we use hand-eating our hands going to be dirty and disgusting it feels very uncomfortable in my opinion. Everything is good but just one little mistake, in my opinion, is the atmosphere is full of smoke, I don’t like it.

[penangseaview]

The Beach Street Police Station, Penang: Then and Now

The original Beach Street Police Station in Penang was part of the colonial infrastructure that dotted George Town, known for its strategic importance during British rule. Beach Street itself was central to Penang’s administration and commercial activities, being one of the oldest roads established by Captain Francis Light in the late 18th century. The street grew as a hub for trade, particularly…

[lepetitblogdekelly]

I couldn't end my stay in Penang without trying one of their specialities : the old town coffee ! Why Old town ? Because this café is located in Georgetown, the island's capital with an intriguing past. Having been colonised by the English, the origins can be seen throughout the city, particularly in the architecture and even the roads. Indeed, in Malaysia, you drive on the left !

[neon-malai]

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I appreciate Mr. Jiven’s concerns regarding the misuse of creative grants by some film producers—a well-known issue within our industry. However, I must respectfully disagree with many of his other views.

I’m compelled to respond here because his statements are overly generic, factually inaccurate, and misleading. Since the release of *Jagat*, a narrative has persisted, associating the film with box-office failure. Whenever young filmmakers attempt to create films in the vein of *Jagat*, certain industry insiders perpetuate this narrative, effectively undermining such efforts. It’s time to dispel this myth. I don’t enjoy addressing these issues publicly, as it may come across as self-promotion, but I hope you view this as a case study instead.

1. *Jagat* and Box Office

Firstly, I dislike terms like "Box Office" or "Art movie." There is art in every movie. The correct term is "Art house" film. A film is simply a film—either it’s good or bad, whether it moves you or not. These terms were coined by business interests, but for clarity, I’ll use "Box Office" when discussing *Jagat*.

Contrary to popular belief, *Jagat* was a box-office success in its own right, as some cinema exhibitors have told me. When *Jagat* was released in 2015, censorship was much stricter, leading to an 18+ rating, which cut our potential audience in half. We were allocated only 10 cinemas, compared to the 50+ cinemas given nowadays to Malaysian Tamil films. Despite these challenges, we collected RM 300k from just 10 cinemas, and there were no screenings in major cities like Ipoh, and only one in Penang Island. *Jagat* ran for nine weeks at Nu Sentral, making it the longest-running Malaysian film there for several years.

When discussing film revenue, we must also consider other sources like festival screening fees, private screening fees, TV stations, and OTT platforms. *Jagat* had over 60 private screenings in Malaysian colleges and was the first Malaysian Tamil film to be broadcast on TV3 for two years. It was also made available in 132 countries on Netflix—the only Malaysian Tamil film to achieve such a wide release. In contrast, other Malaysian Tamil films on Netflix are typically available in just 3-4 countries, mostly in Southeast Asia and India.

2. I’m Not Just a Film Festival Director

I’ve never claimed to be just a film festival director. If my goal was solely to make films for festivals, my approach would be entirely different. My aim is to tell local stories that resonate with my community while also reaching international audiences through film festivals. My last three films are genre films with an independent spirit—*Jagat* was a crime coming-of-age film, my second was a satirical romantic drama, and my third is a crime heist road movie. So, to clarify, I am not a film festival director alone. Even if I were, some films that only circulate in festivals can generate more revenue through screening fees than they would at the box office. In simple terms, making certain types of festival films can still be profitable.

3. I Do Make Bigger Budget Films

Who said I don’t make bigger budget films? My second film, *Neer Mel Neruppu/Fire On Water*, and my third, *Machai*, both had budgets around RM 1 million. Thanks to the profile I built with *Jagat*, I secured RM 650K through MyCreative Venture for my second film and RM 600K through Finas for *Machai*. We topped up the remaining funds ourselves. In an era where it’s challenging to raise even RM 250K for a Malaysian Tamil film, we managed to secure RM 1 million for each film. This was possible because we made our first film, *Jagat*, with RM 300K using our own funds and without government support. I didn’t wait for a higher budget to make my first move.

4.Good Films Can Be Made on Lower Budgets

An experienced director might say you can’t make a good film on a RM 100K budget. That’s wrong. Some of my industry friends have proven otherwise. One of my upcoming projects has a budget of around RM 100K, to be shot on an iPhone with non-actors. It depends on the project.

5. Budget Isn’t Everything

The film *Prebet Sapu* was made on a RM 300K budget, shot every weekend with different cameras borrowed from friends, which is why it’s in black and white. Another Malaysian director, Jacky Yeap, shot his first feature with a RM 150K budget. Last year, as a jury member for BMW Shorties, we selected a film with humble technical quality but a strong story. So, Malaysian Indian filmmakers, please stop using limited budgets as an excuse. This mindset is a curse because we tend to set the artificial standards of Kollywood’s cinematography and production design as the benchmark.

I hope these facts and my opinions help dispel some myths. Be honest with your art, stay persistent, and doors will open despite all the hurdles. Thank you for reading.

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[fatehbaz]

“Many years ago,” began a story in a Singapore-based newspaper in 1899, “it used to be customary to transport convicts from India to this Colony.” That article profiled a courthouse scene of fisticuffs between two old men. According to the newspaper, these two ex-convicts opted “to settle their slight differences” with violence, resulting in the “junior” of the pair having “both his arms broken.” [...] Amused by the scene, the writer cast these men as relics from another time.

Convicts from South Asia were once a conspicuous presence in Southeast Asia, their handiwork visible everywhere, particularly in the built environment of Singapore. 

In the twenty-first century, public acknowledgment of their achievements barely exists, elided by many in the Indian community who would rather not trace their origins to convict ancestors and erased by postcolonial governments that would rather not see their shining cities and states shaped by coerced labor. As for the roads, bridges, and buildings constructed by “servants” of the East India Company, as Indian convicts understood themselves, many have been leveled to make room for new monuments.

Convicts had a significant role in forging empires across the world. Penal transportation was a key strategy of British imperial rule, notably in the case of Australia, from the eighteenth century onward. However, the British also established penal settlements in Southeast Asia where they sent women and men from South Asia convicted of heinous crimes, including political offenses. [...]

Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia tells the stories of convicts journeying across kala pani (black waters) and making their homes in Bengkulu, Penang, and Singapore, where they served extended sentences.

Despite finding themselves in novel and precarious situations, many prisoners exercised considerable agency and resisted colonial authorities, in some cases even becoming “their own warders.” Such are the tales of Fateh Khan of Banaras who emerged as the sahib and leader of the Indian convicts and soldiers in Bengkulu or Jallia who escaped from Penang and made his way back home to Gujarat or the many women and men who labored in Singapore for decades and never returned to India.

Political prisoners from South Asia lived alongside other convicts in the insular prisons of Southeast Asia. My book’s cover features the belongings of the Sikh rebel, Bhai Maharaj Singh, who fought the British in India and was held captive in Singapore in the early 1850s. These objects -- a conch shell, a finger ring, a knife, two steel quoits, a sewing needle and thread, and a religious text -- attest to persons and things dispersed across an Indian Ocean world. Empire of Convicts serves as a counterpart to well-known stories of law, crime, punishment, and prisons, and to an ongoing story of prisoners, particularly in the United States, being used for their labor and exploited by racist structures in liberal democracies.

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All text above by: Anand A. Yang. “Forgotten Histories of Indian Convicts in Colonial Southeast Asia.” UC Press Blog (published by University of California Press). 22 January 2021. [Some paragraph breaks added by me. Image shows a portion of the cover of Yang’s book.]

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Penang Road Famous Teochew Chendul

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Guan Eng seeks to have tunnel corruption charges dropped now

Former Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has requested the Attorney-General’s Chambers to drop four corruption charges against him related to a RM6 billion undersea tunnel and road project in Penang. The June submission cites contradictory testimony from key prosecution witness Zarul Ahmad Zulkifli, director of Consortium Zenith Construction Sdn Bhd. Read More LM News Netizens Now ANGRY at…