What’s happening in the rural heartland


While most of the political ‘noise’ is made by urban voters, the conversation among rural voters is very different.

“FOR us, banjir (flood) is normal. Flood or no flood, we will go out to vote,” a 40something man told me when I chatted with him at a nasi lemak stall in Jerantut town in Pahang.

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