Reason No 11 / Sebab No 11

2 million people can't be wrong because that's the number of Indonesians who are making a living in Malaysia. I don't know and don't care how many Malaysians are in Indonesia. It's probably an insignificant number. All I know is if Malaysia is not better than Indonesia, then there won't be that many Indonesians in Malaysia.

The sad thing is, however, a lot of these Indonesians, about 800,000 of the 2 million, are in Malaysia illegally. Some have even lost their lives trying to enter or leave Malaysia. Why is this so? Why risk their lives? Is the value of life so cheap to them?

Anyway, to lighten up a bit, here's a joke for you readers.
Q: How many Malaysians does it take to change the light bulb?
A: None, Malaysians have Indonesians to do it for them.

Sources:
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/malaysia/2009/07/17/216667/8-Indonesians.htm

Reason No 10 / Sebab No 10

PETRONAS and PERTAMINA. When PETRONAS came into being in the mid 1970’s, PERTAMINA became the example of what a national oil company should become. Oil and gas contracts signed in Malaysia were based on those signed in Indonesia. Since then, while Indonesia is now a net importer of oil and is out of OPEC and PERTAMINA is nowhere to be seen in the world of oil and gas except maybe in their own home ground and a few places here and there, Malaysia continues to be a net exporter of oil and PETRONAS is now at No 80 in the Fortune Global 500 and explores and produces oil and gas all around the globe.

By the way, I found a few websites comparing PETRONAS and PERTAMINA, which are usually written by Indonesians. Here are a couple of them:

http://gaffari-ramadhan.blogspot.com/2008/05/gambar-di-atas-adalah-gedung-petronas.html
http://majarimagazine.com/2007/12/petronas-versus-pertamina/

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertamina
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500

Reason No 9 / Sebab No 9

It is easier to do business in Malaysia. According the World Bank's and the IFC's Doing Business Survey, Malaysia is at No 23, while Indonesia is at No 122nd. Other countries in the 20's are Bahrain (20), Switzerland (21), Belgium (22), Estonia (24), Germany (25), Lithuania (26), Latvia (27), Austria (28) and Israel (29). Countries with Indonesia in the 12o's are Russian Federation (120), Costa Rica (121), Nepal (123), Paraguay (124), Nigeria (125), Bhutan (126), Micronesia (127), Morocco (128) and Brazil (129).

Source:
http://www.doingbusiness.org/EconomyRankings/

Reason No 8 / Sebab No 8

It's safer to take a flight in Malaysia compared to Indonesia. According to Aviation Safety Network and Flight Safety Organisation, since 1943, only 32 fatal accidents happened in Malaysia, involving 285 casualties. On the other hand, 102 fatal accidents involving 2,195 casualties occured in Indonesia.

In the past five years, three major accidents happened in Indonesia involving its own Air Force - 99 casualties (May 2009), Adamair - 102 casualties (January 2007) and Mandala Airlines - 199 casualties (September 2005). So much so that a number of Indonesia airlines are banned by the European Union. These include AdamAir, Mandala Airlines, Merpati Nusantara, Lion Airlines, Sriwijaya Air and Manunggal Air.

Ot the other hand, the last major accident in Malaysia happened in September 1995, involving a Malaysian Airlines Fokker 50 aircraft in Tawau with 34 casualties. No Malaysian airlines have been banned by the European Union.

My sincere condelences to the families of the casualties.

Source:
http://aviation-safety.net/database/dblist.php?Country=PK
http://aviation-safety.net/database/country/country.php?id=9M

Note: I've decided not to translate my posts into Malay anymore. English is our global language. If you want to get ahead, you'll have to learn it like Malaysians do from their first day of primary school.