IPOH: The MCA plans to speak to the family of the Malaysian university student Wee Meng Chee who drew flak recently for his rap version of Negaraku in a music video.
MCA secretary-general Datuk Ong Ka Chuan said he had asked party leaders in Muar to speak with Wee’s father about the significance of the video. Wee, who had posted his self-made video on the video-sharing site YouTube, came under fire by politicians for mocking the national anthem and making statements many found offensive.
However, Ong stressed on Saturday that the party would not tell the family if Wee had been right or wrong to make the video.
“We just want to ask them to be careful and explain things so that the issue does not escalate,” he told reporters after the Perak MCA Youth convention here.
Ong said “what was done, was done” and that the important thing now was to resolve the matter.
“If anyone had been offended (by the video), we must clarify that it was not intentional. He (Wee) is a young man after all,” he added.
It was reported that Wee, a 24-year-old mass communications student at Ming Chuan University in Taiwan, had insisted that he was patriotic and did not mean to offend anyone. He said he wrote the song in conjunction with Malaysia’s 50th anniversary of independence as a gift to his country.
His father, in an interview with Sin Chew Daily, defended his son’s patriotism as the student had insisted on taking along the Jalur Gemilang when he left for Taiwan to study.
In Muar, DAP Youth chief Nga Kor Ming has invited Wee to join the party, saying that it did not find his "rapping" of the national anthem an insult.
He said Wee was “very creative”, adding that the party could use his talent.
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