Archive - 25 December 2003

An interview with Professor Nurcholish Madjidis, considered one of the main Islamic intellectual figures in Indonesia.

Pagar dan kawat berduri yang meligari Kuala Klawang di zaman Darurat dulu telah lama lupus. Tetapi menurut Hishamuddin Rais, hari ini kita sesama kita telah mendirikan kawat dan pagar berduri baru. Kita menjajah diri kita sendiri.

Combining the honed skills of a private eye and a researcher, he has been the year’s most prolific whistleblower. He is hard to ignore, and even harder to silence - and naturally, malaysiakini’s ‘Newsmaker of the Year’.

The war in Iraq and the outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) were the biggest events of 2003. On the domestic front, the retirement of former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad in November and the appointment of his successor Abdullah Ahmad Badawi hogged the limelight.