On one hand, Tourism Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor called bloggers as liars and that 80% of bloggers are unemployed women. Bad PR.
Ironically, on the other hand, Malaysia Tourism Board (MTB) in Jakarta putting up and advertisement in The Jakarta Post, calling for "experienced Public Relations Agency". This was highlighted by blogger Unspun, in which he commented as saying that, wonders never cease.
(SOURCE: Unspun, 15 March 2007)
Indeed, it’s truly amazing and wonders never seem to cease.
While it’s for sure that MTB is in urgent need of a very good PR, Unspun who owns a PR agency (Click here to read the corporate blog) in Jakarta, however isn’t optimistic.
"The MTB’s image, which reflects on Malaysia, is now so bad to anyone who can read a newspaper or a blog that there is nothing a PR firm can do to help them, unless there is a genuine wish on their part to stop living in denial, confront their problems and do something about it before communicating," he said.
The good news is, Unspun is willing to do the PR for Malaysia and MTB free-of-charge, but with a few conditions.
As it isThe MTB spends millions of ringgit of malaysian taxpayers money. It brings in some tourists but not as many as it can if it has good PR. Good PR is about communicating credibly. Malaysia and the MTB has a PR problem but it can’t be fixed unless it addresses the real problem – incompetents without people and communications skills among other deficiencies put in high positions of responsibility. Sort that out and Unspun will even do the PR for Malaysia and the MTB free of charge.
Unfortunately, Tengku Adnan has just denied by saying that he was misquoted by the press and what he meant he had meant only the Indonesian blogger Nila Tanzil.
Meanwhile, Tengku Adnan, listen properly, Nila is not a liar either. She lost her loves one in the accident of Garuda Indonesia’s Boeing 737-400 jetliner flying from Jakarta to Yogyakarta with 133 passengers and seven crew members on board, last March 7.
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Nila Tanzil had expressed her gratitude to all bloggers. However, she was suspended by SCTV after that post in her blog.
~"Setelah itu, aku dapat kabar dari orang SCTV bahwa tulisanku bikin heboh orang Malaysia Tourism Board. Lalu oleh orang SCTV dijawab bahwa tulisan itu bersifat pribadi, tidak ada kaitannya dengan SCTV," papar Nila.~
~ Tak hanya membuat gerah pihak Tourism Board , tulisan Nila di blog tersebut juga mengubah nasibnya di acara "Melancong Yuk!". ~
~ "Setelah kejadian itu, SCTV membatalkan perjalananku ke Makassar. Dan sampai sekarang tidak ada kabar dari orang SCTV, dan tidak ada surat resmi tentang statusku sekarang ini," kata Nila. "Aku jadi bingung, padahal di kontrak tidak disebutkan ada larangan menulis blog," ujarnya sambil tertawa. ~
Read here, detikinet an online media in .
Its true that there’s Nothing any PR firm can do Unless MTB cease the approach that they’ve developed on assumptions. Criticism is natural and they will have to confront.
Anderson
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I HAVE BEEN ROBBED AND MOMHMED SADHIK ALI – IN CHARGE OF
BANGALORE
OFFICE SAYS I CAN GO TAKE A WALK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CHEAP PEOPLE !
Without Prejudice — REPLIES GIVEN TO MY COMPLAINT
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Dear Narayanan Kamal,
I acknowledge receipt of the email you have forwarded. We will try to assist to solve your issue as highlighted in the email below.
Regards
Sathik
From: kamal narayanan [narayanan_kamal@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 3:48 AM
To: Blasius Binjua
Subject: Fw: THEFT OF ARTICLES FROM BAGGAGE BY AIRPORT/CUSTOMS SECURITY CHECK STAFF
— On Thu, 20/11/08, kamal narayanan <narayanan_kamal@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: kamal narayanan <narayanan_kamal@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: RE: [Fwd: Re: THEFT OF ARTICLES FROM BAGGAGE BY AIRPORT SECURITY CHECK STAFF / MAS STAFF]]
To: blasius@malaysiaairlines.com
Cc: hrn@akbartravels.in
Date: Thursday, 20 November, 2008, 12:57 AM
hi blasius,
sorry for the inordinate delay in making this reply, as i explained to you in our meeting my difficulty with writing letters, anyways it was good to talk to you and however I’m unable to accept your offer. as i explained to you at length that i did not loose these articles ….. it was STOLEN by the customs officals proberbly at KL International airport as my baggage got stuck there because of wrong tagging and they insisted i give them the combination for the lock for checking purpouse inspite of my requesting them to scan it instead of opening it as that is much simpler …… only after i gave them the numbers was my bag forwarded to me at BALI .this can be traced back and verified as the call was made by the airport official at denpasar international airport….. and as to the contents in my baggage it also could be verified as i’m sure the security area at
CHANGI
Airport
where it all started was under survilance cameras.
hope we can wind this up quickly and i can at least get all my STOLEN goods back.
STEALING IS DEFINATELY A PUNISHABLE CRIME.
this did not happne by accident !!!!!!!!!!!
not just that, this one incident ruined my first 21 day international family holiday as this incident proberly happened on the 4th day…… this is one holiday i just cant forget ever …. i still remember getting those very indirect threats to drop the whole case.
I WILL DEFINATELY WILL FIGHT ON
Ar V S Kamal Narayanan
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—– Original Message —–
From: kamal narayanan
To: MGR, BLASIUS BINJUA
Cc: natraj akbartravels Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: THEFT OF ARTICLES FROM BAGGAGE BY AIRPORT SECURITY CHECKSTAFF / MAS STAFF
sir i’am qurious as to how long it takes to recover/get my articles back? or is it that they have no intention of returning my articles back.
regards,
Ar V S Kamal Narayanan
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OLD GRIGINAL MAIL
FROM,
VELLORE SANKAR KAMAL NARAYAN ,,,,,,,,, narayanan_kamal@yahoo.com
<mailto:narayanan_kamal@yahoo.com>
FILE REFFERENCE – DPSMH21204/29DEC07/0613GMTNAME – VELLORE SANKAR KAMAL NARAYAN
FLIGHT DATE – MH602/29DEC/MH715/29DEC
NUMBER OF BAGS – 1
TICKET NUMBER – 2322657151811/12COLOUR/TYPE – BK22CHXTAG NUMBER – MH003034
ARTICLES STOLEN
- HUGO BOSS PERFUME 150ML ( 75$ )
ARMANI PERFUME 100/125 ML ( 75$ )
CHANNELL ALUER PERFUME 100/125 ML ( 115$ )
TOMMY HILL FIGURE SUN GLASSES ( 200$ )
TITAN SUN GLASSES ( 150$ )
MOTORALA MOBILE PHONE V3I & SIM CARD ( 300$ )
SIRTHIS COMPLAINT WAS GIVEN ON THE 29/DEC/2007, THERESEEMS TO BE NO RESPONSE TO MY COMPLAINT GIVEN SO LONGBACK. THIS PROBLEM AROSE BECAUSE OF ONE BOTTLE OF PERFUME OFHUGO BOSS 150 ML ….. "SECURITY CHECK" STAFF LADYTOLD ME TO SHOW ALL CONTENTS IN THE BAG AFTER SCAN WAS DONE, AMONG OTHER VALUBLES THE CONTAINED WAS THIS 150ML HUGO BOSS PERFUME WHICH THEY TOLD ME CANNOT BEALLOWED AS IT EXCEEDED THE MAXIMUM ALLOWED (100ML)…. SO THEY SAID IT SHALL BE PUT IN THE DUSTBIN .AS IT IS EXPENSIVE I ASKED WHETHER IT CAN BE SENT TOTHE MAIN CARGO ( AS I HAVE SEEN THIS KIND OF SUPPORTBEFORE) BUT TO MY SHOCK THE LADY SAID " NO " AND KEPTMY NEW SEALED PERFUME ON TOP OF THE DUST BIN …… IWENT TO THE SIDE TO SEE WHAT THEY DO TO MY PERFUME….. THEY NEVER PUT IT IN THE DUST BIN ! I WAITED FOR 15/20 MINUTES TO SEE IF IT IS ACTUALLYPUT IN THE DUST BIN . SEEING ALL THIS SOME STAFFPERSON CAME AS IF TO HELP ME . HE NOW SUDDENLY SAID ITWAS OK TO PUT IT IN THE MAIN CARGO…. THIS WASEARLIER DENIED TO ME IN SPITE OF REPEATED REQUESTS .NOW THIS BAG IS A SAMSONITE LEATHER OVERNIGHT LAPTOPCARRIER AND HAS THREE SIMPLE COMBINATION LOCKS AS IINTENDED TO KEEP IT WITH ME AS CABIN BAGGAGE … SO ASI PUT THIS PERFUME I REMOVED MY LAPTOP AND PUT THEPERFUME IN AND ALSO OTHER THINGS AS SPACE WASAVAILABLE – (ARMANI PERFUME 100/125 ML ,CHANNELL ALUERPERFUME 100/125 ML – PURCHASED AT THE AIRPORT DUTYFREE SHOP ) , TOMMY HILL FIGURE SUN GLASSES , TITANSUN GLASSES ,MOTORALA MOBOLE PHONE (V3I) AND THIS WASDONE IN FRONT OF YOUR STAFF WHO SURROUNDED ME AS I PUTALL MY THINGS IN.NOW THEY NOT ONLY KNEW ALL CONTENTS OF MY BAG BUT ALSOKNEW LOCK COMBINATION ! I RECEIVED MY BAG 48 HRS LATER THAN I SHOULD HAVERECEIVED AND THAT TOO IN OPENED COBNDITION. YOUR STAFF ( SECURITY CHECK ) IS ABSOLUTELYRESPONSIBLE FOR THIS VERY COWERDLY THEFT AS THEY WEREWITNESS TO ALL THINGS IN MY BAG , AND WHERE I PUT THEMAS THEY SURROUNDED ME WHEN I PUT THEM IN ,,,,,,THEYALSO KNEW THE COMBINATION TO THE LOCK BECAUSE THEYSURROUNDED ME WHEN I OPENED AND PUT MY THINGS IN.IT IS VERY STRANGE THEY SAID THEY WILL PUT IT IN THEDUST BIN …. BUT ACTUALLY NEVER INTENDED TO DO SO,,,,,,, IS ANOTHER STORY.I THINK THEY WANT IT FOR NEW YEAR GIFT SO THEY NEVERPUT IT IN THE BIN. SORRY I CANT ALLOW MY HARD EARNED MONEY TO BECOMESOMEBODY ELSE’S NEW YEAR GIFT. I WANT IT ALL BACK WITHWRITTEN APOLOGY FROM ALL. I HAVE ALSO BEEN ADVISED TO KEEP QUITE AND FORGETABOUT IT ….. SORRY THAT I CANNOT DO !YOU ALL HAD RUINED MY HOLIDAYI THINK SOME OF YOUR STAFF ARE LOUSY COWEDRDLY THIVESWHO RUINED MY 20 DAY HOLIDAY AS THIS HAPPENED ON THE4/5 DAY OF MY FAMILY
HOLIDAY
.
RegardsKamal