Why Upin and Ipin? Well, the answer is pretty shocking and it addresses a cornerstone of education that has isolated 40 ethnic groups from each other. The Upin & Ipin series has been acknowledged as a Malaysian success story in animation by many people. #Video upin ipin bahasa indonesia series# I would be the first to agree that it gets an A for engaging storytelling, an A for scriptwriting and another A for animation technology. However, I would give it a dismal D for stories and characters that reflect “Malaysia” as a whole. Upin & Ipin carries on the single ethnic dominance construct that has torn this nation apart for 60 years and is set to do so for another 60. A “national children’s story”? Well, it fits every definition of that label except for the “national” part.įor as long as I remember watching this series, it has centred only on a Malay-Islamic construct. Even though the cartoon has lovable and relatable characters who are Malay, Chinese and Sikh as well as a smattering of Indonesian and Indian ones, the episodes are a single cultural construct. The non-Malay characters barely have any life outside of their school and we know absolutely nothing about their parents, way of life or belief systems and rituals. There has been one episode that featured Chinese New Year and another on a traditional Chinese custom, and that’s it. I don’t remember any other cultural episodes that explore in depth the way of life of the Sikh and Indian characters. Where are the other 35 ethnic groups in Malaysia and their stories? And the Chinese character, Mei Mei, is a stereotype of a Chinese girl speaking Malay with a Chinese twang. When I asked 11 Chinese postgraduate students in my Masters of Architecture class whether they had ever watched Upin & Ipin during their childhood, all except one answered in the negative. #Video upin ipin bahasa indonesia series#.
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