THUS SPAKE THE GREAT MALAY MINDA

On this article, Salleh Ben Joned talk about Sasterawan Negara Muhammad Hj Salleh. On November 14, Utusan Malaysia, the leading Malay daily, carried a report of a talk given by the professor-poet and Sasterawan Negara Muhammad Haji Salleh. The report was head lined: kikis sikap merendahkan sastera Negara (don't look down on the nation’s literature). Based on it, salleh agree with Muhammad Hj Salleh stands. Muhammad Hj Salleh stands that “Malay literature” is as impressive as the literature of others countries.
Muhammad also making itself heard loud and clear, proudly declared that Malay literature had produced writers worthy of winning the Nobel prizes. In his speech he state that the President of UMNO in his speech, told the Malay to “think big”, he was not talking of mindless ambition like that of Mat Jenin. Muhammad Haji Salleh told those achievements of ones country’s literature is not the something as looking down (menghina) of the literature, or belittling it (memperkecilkan). His view of Malays literature (both modern and pre-modern) produced interesting works. One statement that both writers agree that Malay critic’s haven’t heard of and applied with relish to local works. He give example as our Sasterawans’ tendency to talk big but know little.