A Blog Activist's Tale with Raja Petra Kamarudin (RPK)

Raja Petra Kamarudin, founder and editor of online news blog Malaysia Today, gives this lecture entitled 'Beating Malaysian Authoritarianism with People Power: A Blog Activist's Tale' at The Australian National University on 2 March 2011 .

RPK (as he's usually known online) is Malaysia's most famous online political activist, and a forceful advocate of transparent, accountable government. His website Malaysia Today hosts many allegedly official documents detailing government corruption and scandal.

He speaks as chairman of the Malaysian Civil Liberties Movement (MCLM), which is now working towards full representation in Malaysia's 13th general election.

MCLM wants to revive and re-engage Malaysians disillusioned with an UMNO-dominated federal government and return them to a government that holds fast to the spirit and intent of the Constitution.

With the next general elections looming this year, there's a palpable sense of urgency.

MCLM is driven by human rights lawyers and other professionals, political veterans, civil society activists and ordinary citizens with social justice in their sights, targeting a corruption-free, transparent government, free and fair elections and the end to racial politics.

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[votergetvoter]

RPK is fighting for us for A BETTER Malaysia for ALL Malaysians,

thus we should return this honour by helping him to fight evil BN. by getting more people to vote for PR.

Every Vote Counts.

Its NOW or NEVER.

CHANGE NOW

[ataraxiaism]

1:24:30 epic ever, i actually laugh out loud! good one RPK :)

[thegreeensky]

nice speech.. well said...

[muhammadzahmad]

Malaysians shouldn't be the only one who'll watch this video...everyone should..

[msKuchifai]

excellent speech

[chengyee2002]

i could hear him speak all day...

[dt1utube]

hail rpk ....

[Klias]

@MrMikesnewman: I don't think it came across that way, or that the crowd was making light of his message by giggling. He is a passionate man yes, but as you can see he has a keen sense of humour, and it was very clear to me that he used sarcasm to get his point across. The audience merely responded naturally to the sarcastic comments, as intended.

[unitD7]

the real 1 Malaysia...

[Time2Keel]

"Controversial is my middle name" 3:25.. Nope, that's your first name. First you say Najib ended Altantuya then, nope, it was Anwar's game to grab the throne...so, controversy na,contradiction is your middle name and bogus blogger is your last.

Controversial contradicting bogus blogger.

[cwtjones]

god bless RPK!

[MrMikesnewman]

this is serious stuff and you can see how passionate Raja Petra is. The constant laughter and giggles from the crowd is utterly irritating and adds insult to the entire speech.

If the audience are mostly Malaysians, I am ashamed and saddened that this is treated as a comedy sketch.