Crimson affair

Last week all news paper’s front page was all about tragic death of Nurin Jazirin. This lovely girl found cramp in small sport bag, had several cuts and bruises on her body, believed to be raped before she was murdered. The case created a tense atmosphere in Malaysia, even our PM showed concern with what had happened.

The ability walking safely in neighborhood is snatch from us. It was not safe anymore when we step outside our own house. Crime rate is said to be decrease over the few years by police department, but often news of crimes (murder, robbery, rape, etc) reported daily gave us the impression that our country was not safe anymore. Crime rate obviously increase as the result of incoming illegal migrants. Malaysia, especially in Klang Valley was infested with illegal migrants, many of them working in labour sectors. All sorts of migrant we can observed, Nepalese, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Indonesian, and also Philippines. To look into this matter, we need to understand the topics on migration and migrant.

In the local scene, migration from rural to urban area happened because attractions of highly paid jobs were mostly in the urban area. Factories and industrial sectors focus on the urban area rather than rural, where urban areas have much more facilities (hospitals, bank), infrastructure (road system, railway, and shops) and hostility (houses, community). Not only industrial sectors, but also agricultural sectors recruit migrant workers as the result of low labour cost. Additionally, migrant went for a better place where jobs are on demand. The willingness to do heavy and risky jobs are a factor employee recruit migrant from rural area and also migrant that came from other countries. The opening of early towns in Malaysia are because the migration of workers to urban area to get jobs and also better lifestyle. Kuala Lumpur and Ipoh are merely occupied until British, with their own economy agenda, bring in migrants from China. There we can see that economy plays important factors that linked to urbanization.