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Erna Mahyuni
Erna tweets too much on @ernamh. Angry Sabah native, slave to her dog/cat and blogs at ernamahyuni.com
More from Erna Mahyuni
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Maybe we should stop pretending the world isn’t on fire
SEPTEMBER 23 — A popular meme on the internet shows a cartoon dog, sitting in a room where everything is on fire. The dog, instead of attempting escape, calmly says, “It is...
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Sabah’s election run-up is a reminder of our polarisation
SEPTEMBER 16 — There is a lot riding on the Sabah election. A little too much, in fact. You would think I would be used to all the political mudslinging by now but it has...
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It shouldn’t be so hard for our politicians to apologise
SEPTEMBER 9 — “I miss our last government,” I told a colleague. “At most, I’d be making fun of Lim Guan Eng’s Grim Reaper impression each time he gave a press...
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The money-making schemes need to stop
SEPTEMBER 2 — “Which ministry ah sending all those Merdeka SMS?” That’s the gist of angry Facebook messages and tweets I’m getting. Whoever is gleefully abusing the...
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Colour blindness is the new apathy
AUGUST 26 — One annoying new Malaysian catchphrase is acah woke (thinking you’re “woke”) that is often used to gaslight discussions about things seen as problematic now...
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Voting shouldn’t be expensive in Malaysia
AUGUST 20 — I worry about the upcoming election in Sabah and whether the turnout will be lower than expected, due to the challenges of logistics as well as the ever looming...
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Logic seems to have vacated Parliament
AUGUST 12 — I'm still not over having a “new” government. You don't usually wake up one morning to find you have a new prime minister as well as a new political coalition....
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Malaysia has always been ‘broken’, and that’s just fine
AUGUST 5 — Growing up in the 90s, 2020 was, to most Malaysian youngsters then, a far-off ideal and a promise of an exciting and prosperous future. Fast forward a few decades...
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Domestic violence is a public, not private matter
JULY 29 — It has been interesting seeing the reactions to the recent incidents involving the couple behind the Sugu Pavithra YouTube channel. What started out as a nation's...
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What money do you want us to spend?
JULY 22 — The last week or so, it felt as though the government had spent a lot of time stating the obvious. The poverty line has been revised (at last) and on another note,...
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Saving Malaysia from old men
JULY 15 — Perlis has become the second state after Sabah to lower the voting age to 18. It is a move long overdue for the rest of the country because it is clear we have been...
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What will it take to get Malaysia to revise the poverty line?
JULY 8 — Reading a UN report about Malaysia's creative fibbing about poverty in the country was unpleasant. Philip Alston, the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and...
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250-people gatherings? Maybe it's not the time
JULY 1 — It feels odd to see regulations being loosened to have gatherings of 250 people while at the same time, being told to not organise them if SOPs cannot be followed. The...
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Why must something go viral to matter?
JUNE 24 — The world is crazy enough that I've rationed my time on Twitter to a few quick scrolls a day. It still gave me time to spy a Tweet from an ex-colleague who was a...
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Poverty alleviation in Malaysia and what we could learn from China
JUNE 17 — One of the biggest problems with the internet age is that shutting yourself off from the news is near-impossible unless you ignore the internet altogether. My...