On May 9 this year, the general election changed the government, and the situation generated was to change the situation where Mahathir's first prime minister had controlled the control of the media's ownership.The picture shows the Shuangfeng Tower of Kuala Lumpur.(Reuters)

Ownership control is an important phenomenon of criticism of political and economic attention. Malaysia has a more critical perspective of communication scholars and non -governmental organizations advocating freedom of press. Generally, political parties should not control the ownership of the media, and they also oppose centralization of media ownership and group ownership.change.The political background of this claim is that the Barisan Nasional (UMNO) government has not only set up severe media regulations to restrain the freedom of the press for decades, but also use ownership to control this means to control the media.

Although the ownership of UMNO control media can be traced back to 1961, after the Donggu Abdul La Manwa disintegrated the "Malay striker", the newspaper fully controlled the newspaper, but media ownership control, centralized and group engineering tended to improve.Mahathir's first prime minister was completed, especially in 1993 to promote the new Strait Times Group and the third television merged and the "management acquisition plan Andrdquo; only the MEDIA Prima) across multiple primary media groups (MEDIA Prima)Media business of the media business.

The last one before Mahathir stepped down was to promote the MCA Guild and Zhang Xiaoqing's merger of Nanyang Newspaper Holdings.In general, the media pattern of Mahathir's 22 years of administration is the UMNO control of the primary media and the MCA Association to control the Star Media (Star Media).

Mahathir, who is now the Prime Minister of the Pakatan Harapan government, revealed on September 7 that the Pakatan Harapan government considers that the shareholding ratio of political parties in the media is limited to 10%.Andrdquo; Andrdquo;.Earlier media reports have been reported that this proposal is that Mahathir put forward that Andrdquo;

Mahathir's words of vocalization, as if they could look down on public opinion and fulfill their campaign declarations, they should not deepen the mystery and applaud.However, as long as the current political party and the media pattern are analyzed, it is not difficult to find that Mahathir is the agenda of the Robbery Reform, and continues to do the media control in the name of press freedom.

On May 9 this year, the general election changed the government, and the situation generated by bringing in is to change the situation of the party's control of the party's control of the media during the first prime minister.The media controlled by the opposition party Andrdquo; -except that the primary media are slightly different.

According to the 2017 annual report of the primary media, its largest largest shareholders are the Provident Fund Bureau (13.25%), the second largest shareholder is Mitsubishi UFJ (12.53%), and the third largest shareholder is Gabungan Kesturi Private Co., Ltd. (11.09%), and UMNOThrough Altima, INC control 7.96%of the equity, ranking fourth largest shareholders.

The four major shareholders held a total of 44.83%of the shareholders.However, as of September 5 this year, Mitsubishi UFJ's equity has increased to 12.72%, becoming a single largest shareholder, and the equity of the provident fund bureau has dropped to 11.85%.

According to the report of The Edge Finance Weekly on July 23 this year, Mitsubishi UFJ, a Japanese financial company, is the final shareholder or representing customers. It is unknown.Gabungan Kesturi's major shareholder is Amanah Raya Co., Ltd., wholly owned by the Ministry of Finance.

In addition to these four major shareholders, there are other official company companies, including the National Trust Fund of the National Investment Corporation (Permodalan Nasional Berhad), as well as the Treasury Holdings, National Investment Corporation and Civil Service Retirement Fund (KWAP)The average investment company Valuecap Social Co., Ltd., etc., has a total of about 15%of these official joint companies.

If MITSUBISHI UFJ is the UMNO or UMNO Party to hold a shares, UMNO's holdings of the primary media are only about 20%.In other words, the actual major shareholders of the primary media are the government, not UMNO.When the Barisan Nasional (UMNO) was in power, the party and the state were generally regarded as the media of UMNO; now the UMNO Xiaye, the primary media is still controlled by the government.

Another major impact of UMNO is its control over the Malay striker group.Umno directly holds 49.77%of the Malay striker group to control this listed company; Najib's supporter and tycoon Syed Mokhtar Albukhary holds 14.76 through NILAM SETAR (Malaysia) Co., Ltd.%.There is a special situation in the Malay striker group that there are no official companies in the 30 major shareholders, but there are many Chinese individual shareholders.

Another influential media group is the Star News Media controlled by the MCA.According to the 2017 annual report of the Star News Media, the Mahua Guild directly holds 42.46%of the shares, and it holds 0.52%of Huaren Holdings, totaling 42.98%.

It is worth noting that the Provident Fund Bureau, Pilgrimage Fund Bureau, National Trust Fund, State Treasury Holding Fund Bureau, ValueCap, National Investment Corporation, Civil Service Retirement Fund Bureau and many other official joint companies also hold shares, totaling at least 33%, of which the indigenous trust fundIt is the second largest shareholder (10.03%), the provident fund bureau is the third largest shareholder (7.33%), and the Pilgrimage Fund Bureau is the fourth largest shareholder (5.40%).

After the implementation of the provisions of the parties holding parties, it can be foreseeable that the equity of UMNO and MCA will fall into the hands of the officials or Mahathir's friends.On the other hand, even if there is financial resources, the non -relative Mahathir cannot get the point (in 2001, everyone has seen Mahathir forced Guo Lingcan to sell the equity of the Nanyang Newspaper to the MCA Guild).

As a result, the control of the aforementioned media group will be transferred from the opposition party (UMNO and MCA) to the ruling party (specifically, the Mahathir, the Turkish Party and his friends) -shandAnd the National Investment Corporation has been transferred to the Prime Minister's Office.The ruling party's control of the media ownership borrowed the soul by borrowing corpses!

The reason why media ownership control is important because it has the power of appointing management and compilation of senior management, and implement the political will of the owners through these high -level seniors of political appointments, the prescriptions of the media and the direction of public opinion.In the era of the Barisan Nasional (UMNO), the change of UMNO power caused the media to change the media, and it was normal. In 1998, Anwar was revolutionized on the eve of Mahathir, the "Malaysia forward", "Daily News" and the three televisions of the third TV.The supervisor has been duty one after another.

Communication scholars and non -governmental organizations oppose political parties to control the media. The original intention is to be good to promote media autonomy, freedom of pressing, and diversified public opinion. The media must be relieved from the ruling party.However, Mahathir's cunning is precisely this kind of good intention, stole the concept, and disappointed good things.Unknown people also thank him for promoting media reform.

(The author is a senior lecturer at the Department of Communication, Laoman University, Malaysia)