Logo sambutan ulang tahun kemerdekaan negara ke-51 didakwa mirip logo anugerah produk cemerlang yang diberikan oleh kementerian hal-ehwal ekonomi Taiwan.



Logo tiga warna utama Jalur Gemilang yang memenangi hadiah RM10,000 berbeza sedikit daripada lambang anugerah Taiwan, yang serba merah, apabila ia memuatkan tiga bulatan kecil di tengah-tengahnya.

Sisi-sisi reka bentuk itu juga (foto atas, kanan) lebih bulat berbanding logo Taiwan itu.

Dengan kerjasama Majlis Pembangunan Perdagangan Luar Taiwan (TAITRA), produk-produk yang cemerlang dari negara itu ditampalkan dengan logo anugerah itu setiap tahun sejak 2003.

Bersama logo merah itu yang telah didaftarkan sebagai cap dagang, produk terbaik republik itu bertulis "It's very well. Made in Taiwan."

Logo sambutan kemerdekaan Malaysia tahun ini dengan slogan 'Perpaduan Teras Kejayaan' dimenangi oleh seorang artis bernama Anuar Dan.



Dihubungi Malaysiakini hari ini, artis itu mengakui "50 peratus" logo sambutan kemerdekaan itu diambil daripada lambang produk terbaik Taiwan.

Lambang itu dirujuk sebagai bahan kajiannya sebelum menghasilkan logo 'Perpaduan Teras Kejayaan', katanya.

Anuar (foto kiri) menjelaskan, beliau memasukkan idea-ideanya sendiri untuk mencipta logo sambutan itu.

Logonya antara 800 penyertaan yang diterima untuk peraduan melukis logo sambutan ulang tahun kemerdekaan negara tahun ini yang bakal disambut dua hari lagi.

Menteri Perpaduan, Kebudayaan, Kesenian dan Warisan Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal melancarkan logo dan slogan itu awal bulan ini bersama lagu baru ciptaan Datuk Suhaimi Mohd Zain (Pak Ngah) dan Lokman Ghani.

Menurut penjelasan rasmi, logo ini diilhamkan daripada "ikatan tiga figura yang saling berganding bahu menunjukkan perpaduan erat melambangkan 'Perpaduan Teras Kejayaan'.

"Tiga ikatan figura manusia saling berganding bahu menunjukkan rakyat yang bekerjasama di antara satu sama lain dalam menjaga keamanan dan memajukan negara" yang mewakili pelbagai kaum mencapai kejayaan dalam perpaduan.

Di logo sambutan kemerdekaan itu, merah membawa makna "keberanian rakyat", putih (kesetiaan keseluruhan rakyat Malaysia), biru (perpaduan yang dijalinkan oleh kaum-kaum di Malaysia), manakala kuning (sistem beraja dan Yang di-Pertuan Agong).

Malaysiakini telah dimaklumkan mengenai kemiripan kedua-dua logo itu melalui emel yang diterima daripada seorang pembaca.

Sumber: http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/88820

He can justify his actions as much as he wants, but that does not take away the fact that he stole the idea. The similarities are too obvious. The Taiwanese logo to me seems more like a blueprint, than a 'bahan kajian'.

hmm... who's the copycat?
"'Perpaduan Teras Kejayaan' dimenangi oleh seorang artis bernama Anuar Dan"

So, don't be angry if our neighbors called us "Malingsia" ...

Why can't we be, if they love to extend that term to all Malaysians? I don't think they'd like us to put a tag on them either. No one does.

I know who this mimihitam is! This is a female INDON CHINESE from topix.com where she is quite busy too flaming hatred between Malaysians and Indonesians..

I call her INDON because like I said earlier the bad Indonesians must forever be labeled as INDONS, while the reasonable and self-restrained ones will be called 'Indonesians' like they prefer. This thread is all about MALING, like the RASA SAYANGE thread earlier, she wants to revive the Malaysia-Indonesia hatred over MALING..

The main objective of this fu-cking INDON CHINESE MIMIHITAM in opening this thread is to DELIBERATELY start a new confrontational MALING thread so both Malaysians and Indonesians will go to war against each other! This fuc-king INDON CHINESE would love to see us Indonesians and Malaysians going after each other's throat, that's why she's trying to flame things here..

I could easily go to the Indonesian Chat and start a thread that reads 'Lagu Indonesia Raya tiru lagu lama Belanda'....and hell will break loose, and we will all go to war against each other. But I am a very sane person, I rarely venture into Indonesian Chat because I practically have no interests in discussing Indonesian matters..

So, you INDON CHINESE MIMIHITAM..why don't you F_CK OFF back to TOPIX.COM whewre sluts like you belong! Better still, why don't you F-UCK OFF to CHINA where you ancestors came from! Get off Malaysia Chat if you plan to inflame! You don't even deserve to be in Indonesian Chat if your objective there is to flame relations between Malaysian and Indonesians!! Take you stinking pussy and and your smelly Chinese clit elsewhere! You stupid puk*mak INDON CHINESE!!

Chinese like mimihitam deliberately wants to poison the relations between two culturally and religiously close peoples of the same stock in Malaysia and Indonesia to further Overseas Chinese agenda, as if our relations aren't already poisoned. Chinese like mimihitam is only interested in weakening both Malaysia and Indonesia so in the end the Chinese in these two countries will take over our two countries from its pribumis/bumiputras..

F-ck off you black MIMIHITAM...

And as for you DrGiel3, you are just a treacherous and traitorous Malaysian Chinese who I have no doubt in my mind will side with a foreign country if there is war between Malaysia and that foreign country. If war breaks out between Malaysia and Indonesia, you will immediately side with the Indonesians to crush Malaysia. Same thing if war breaks out between Malaysia and Singapore or with Thailand or with any other country, you will back stab Malaysia and join forces with Malaysia's enemies. You are the Benedict Arnold of Malaysia, and lots of Chinese are like you..

It's no wonder why there will NEVER EVER be peace between Malays and Chinese in Malaysia, Never, even if you try hard for a million years! NEVER EVER!!!!!

The problem in Malaysia is not Malays versus NON-MALAYS, but Malays versus CHINESE! Malays will some day mend fences with Indians and non-Muslim Bumiputras before we turn our guns against the treacherous Chinese.....yes, the TREACHEROUS ones!!

^^ I don't want to make any comments on your posts above but there is a similar thread at cari.com.my.

Actually we have no problem with the logo being branded a copy of the Taiwanese symbol. It's quite obvious, and even the man said that he had used it as his reference, eventhough we know it was probably more than just that.

However you gotta admit that it does make a whole lot of difference when the poster's motive comes into question. Why did Mimihitam create this thread? Was she genuinely concerned, or was it because she hates Malaysia more than anything else? I would be glad if Mimihitam herself can be more active in this thread, and prove herself not a mere troll.

Let me make this more comprehensible for you as an Indonesian. I'm sure there would be more suspicion if a Malaysian questions the origins of the Indonesia Raya song, than if an Indonesian himself does so. The same thing applies almost everywhere.


@ Esfan: Seriously, she's from Topix.com? Alright don't tell me that Topix members are starting to intrude into Asiafinest, especially Malaysian Chat! Topix is like where all the rudest, disrespectful, irrational and emotionally unstable (Southeast) Asians, especially Malaysians and Indonesians congregate. Sorry for the strong adjectives but I've been a guest there several times and I can't help but feel really geram at their attitude. There's just no dignity. I don't mean to offend my Indonesian brethrens, but I really don't like how some Indonesians can be so obsessed with the Malingsia/Malon thing. Maybe they enjoy it - perhaps it's a welcome distraction from their problems at home and Malaysia is a good target to vent their negativities. I don't know.

I think it's high time Malaysian Chat posts some Topic Creation rules to stop trolls from polluting the place. We have hundreds of guests lurking around everyday, and a number of them are potential trolls just waiting to blossom at the click of the Register button.

My friend told me that esfan is a troll that should be ignored, so i ignored him

No prejudice, topix and asianfinest is different, and i know how to place myself. If i am a troll, i will post many trolly posts, but i didn't. So i apologize for this if you feel offended, and this thread may be deleted.

Thank you for the clarification Mimihitam, eventhough as a senior member here I wouldn't agree that Esfan is a troll. It depends on how the situation is handled by every forumer. He can be quite reasonable actually, if you're in for a proper discussion. : )

I don't feel offended at all by the article itself, truth be told. As a Malaysian student-designer who has learned all the ethics of design at college I am very disappointed with the fact that this guy - a veteran artist - for such an important event, resorted to copying Taiwan's symbol (albeit the fact he made some minimal changes). If there's anything good about the article it's that the guy admitted a connection with the Taiwanese symbol. A true artist - whether in Malaysia, Indonesia, or in other parts of the world - would have more sense than that...

Don't only blame the artist .... but you have to blame the jury and also Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal who were not "sensitive" for this issue ...

Yes,she's from Topix.com. She's an Indonesian Chinese, by her own account in Topix.com. You know the kind of mentality that these Topixers have! Mimihitam is one of those Indonesians, or the malicious Indons, whose hatred for Malaysia is vitrioilic and venomous. They are forever prisoners of the 'Malingsia' syndrome, grabbing every opportuniuty that comes their way to accuse Malaysia of 'Malingsia'.

Of course, now mimihitam says she'll behave in AsiaFinest. She does realize AF has a different culture and that she can't troll around here and is tacitly admitting it. But the fact that she opens up a thread that accuses Malaysia of stealing something from Taiwan is indicative of her intentions here. She wants to initiate a heated argument between Malaysians and Indonesians over this issue which could easily degenerate into another 'Rasa Sayange' thread where Malaysians and Indonesians practically kill each other accusing each other stealing this or that..

Tell me Crystal....would you go to Indonesian Chat an open up a thread that is something like this thread?

I am an AF pro, not a troll! I wouldn't have come this far if I were a troll!! But you better watch yourself, and I'm watching you too! You could still be a troll, a residual from your topix.com life, albeit one that hides behind some facade of decorum.

For an Indonesian from topix.com to open up a thread that insinuates Malaysia as a nation of thieves (malingsia) certainly makes me suspicicous of you. Sure, that article that you put up in this thread is a published fact in the public domain. It's not that article that I'm questioning; it's your intentions of putting up this article.

I want to remind you that there are stacks of published articles in the public domain that are negative about Indonesia on practically every issue including Indonesian plagiarism/malingism that I too can choose to publish here or in Indonesian Chat if I want too...

Gee! Thanks for 'defending' me! May be I seem harsh on mimihitam. That's because I'm suspicious of topix.com people and their uncivilized debating culture, especially the Indonesian ones, who are very malicious about Malaysia.

About this thread..it's about a Malaysia 'malinging' something from Taiwan. Coming from a topix.com Indonesian, I certainly am suspicious of her intentions in putting up this article. It's not the article that I question; it's her intentions.

No I wouldn't. I would love to question some things, but frankly speaking I'm quite fearful of their aggressive nationalistic nature. Maybe not all are like this, but few are enough to turn me off. Cakap sikit, Ganyang Malaysia pula. Banyak yang tak boleh dibawa bicara... : |



Sadly, that is true. I have come across a number of them, but as I have said, for the sake of 'peaceful' relations between Indonesians and Malaysians I dare not do anything about them.

Isn't that how we humans are? Perpetually being the pot that calls the kettle black...



Frankly speaking, whether she's from Topix.com or not, I'm not going to be judgmental on her. Maybe you've known her well enough to feel the way you feel against her. Perhaps being in AsiaFinest will provide a less bias environment for her to evaluate her stance concerning Malaysia, I don't know.


@DrGiel3: True, I should not blame the artist alone. He wouldn't have gone through without some degree of conspiracy - that is, if there was someone else knew that he plagiarised the Taiwanese symbol. I'm just sad that no action has been taken against individuals who are responsible for all this. Well, Merdeka 2008 is done and over - the best I can hope is that this case wouldn't repeat itself next year.

Anuar Dan is the copycat. I wasn't referring to the Taiwanese symbol.

What I meant was the Taiwanese symbol seemed more like a blueprint for Anuar's design, rather than a reference material.

Hey malay pig ,why not you go back to jungle and live as pig ,this forum not for malay pig ,wake up.

Hey please, dont flaming/trolling here. It looks like it's all my fault for creating thread like this, so please delete it. Thanks.

Are we that scary ?? lol ??
I promise you we won't eat ya...

It is totally ok for you to question her intention, but do you really need to show that you're a racist and a hater?

man, this thread needs to closed.

Oh yes! You even have Indonesian hackers defacing Malaysian websites, like what happened to SUHAKAM's (Human Rights Commission of Malaysia) in 2007. http://www.security.org.my/index.php?/arch...an-Hackers.html I know we've wronged the Indonesia in some areas, but is there any need to hack into Malaysian websites? I don't think the Indonesians would like it very much if they wronged us and we hack their websites!

But of course, I don't think I need to mention any more examples. Maybe nationalism is a way of life in Indonesia; if it is so I guess it's understandable and we Malaysians just have to bear with the fact that some Indonesians can be very, very fierce tahap dewa indeed! Well, we've already gone through Konfrontasi Indonesia so we can go through this, can we? : ) There are some things we can change, there are some things we can't. Nonetheless other than this Indonesians are very nice to socialise with because we have much in common. Not to mention I'm in love with Indonesian instant noodles, so if we wrong you again just don't stop importing Indomie and Mie Sedap to Malaysia and I'll be fine with it.

^Yea but I don't think Indonesia AF'ers are that scary.

^ Actually, I was referring more to Indonesian non-AFers, both in other forums and in real life. : )

youre a crazy racist!i wonder how can u live with with yourself,ur life is so full of hatred.yeah,right,why would we want to do those things?there are better things to do than caring about your sad existence u know!as an indonesian of chinese descent i am very hurt with ur words!but whatevs,the hell with u and the rest of malaysia,u can all go to hell!

^Udah udah...masalaha nya udah selesai, don't put fuel to it.