text: [{"text_idx": "#000003", "text": "Reformasi 25 years later: a long march towards new hope"}, {"text_idx": "#000004", "text": "A quarter of a century ago today, Anwar Ibrahim was sacked as deputy prime minister, and subsequently brutally detained, beaten, and jailed from Sept 20, 1998 to Sept 2, 2004. From the halls of power, as Anwar puts it in one of his earliest prison letters, he descended into \u201cthe labyrinths of incarceration\u201d."}, {"text_idx": "#000005", "text": "In a piece entitled \u201cSpeaking for the Reformasi Generation\u201d on this day in 2008, the year which saw a political tsunami that broke Barisan Nasional\u2019s two-thirds majority in Parliament, I wrote that \u201cfrom the ruins of Anwar\u2019s previous political life, however, a Reformasi generation arose\u201d."}, {"text_idx": "#000006", "text": "\u201cThroughout the long decade, despite being jailed the first six years and spending a considerable amount of time overseas in the immediate two years after release, Anwar aroused passionate support and devotion from many, some out of sympathy while others felt that he embodied the national quest for change and maturity."}, {"text_idx": "#000009", "text": "My generation grew up during the haydays of Malaysia\u2019s economic takeoff between 1988 and 1997 when the economy grew at an average of 9% annually. The world was full of possibilities and hope."}, {"text_idx": "#000010", "text": "After Vision 2020 was unveiled in February 1991, there was at least 14 years until 2005 that the national discourse was not racial, and the idea of a Bangsa Malaysia was broadly accepted."}, {"text_idx": "#000012", "text": "Coupled with China\u2019s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001, which drew most investments into manufacturing from around the world into China, leaving Southeast Asian economies such as Malaysia to suffer premature deindustrialisation."}, {"text_idx": "#000013", "text": "In hindsight, the last 25 years saw Malaysia stuck being neither the worst nor the best in class, and enveloped in a sense of self-doubt, pessimism and the lack of confidence and hope."}, {"text_idx": "#000014", "text": "Yet the greatest contribution of Reformasi was that a generation of Malaysians, many now in the government, believe that the nation deserves better, that everything is possible (because we have seen the impossible happen, in a good way, such as Anwar coming back from hell to the top), and that we could and should remake the nation for the better."}, {"text_idx": "#000015", "text": "It is my fervent hope that Anwar would end Malaysia\u2019s lost decades, lead the nation to a second economic takeoff while rejuvenating the institutions, and build an optimistic, outward-looking, and tolerant Bangsa Malaysia."}, {"text_idx": "#000019", "text": "Ex-Proud Boys leader sentenced to 22 years"}, {"text_idx": "#000020", "text": "Mercedes-Benz g-Class confirmed \u2013 baby G-Class coming in a few years\u2019 time; EQG to debut in 2024"}, {"text_idx": "#000021", "text": "Hari ini 25 tahun dulu: Reformasi!"}, {"text_idx": "#000022", "text": "Lupakan \u2018reformasi\u2019 kini masa bawa perubahan sebenar, kata Nur Jazlan"}, {"text_idx": "#000023", "text": "Anwar pans PN\u2019s \u2018100,000 jobs in 30 years\u2019 pledge"}, {"text_idx": "#000024", "text": "EVs in Malaysia may reach 15% of TIV target before 2030, more CKD EV models within two years: MARii"}, {"text_idx": "#000029", "text": "Suspek kes ah long ditangkap dalam pesawat"}]