The emergence of government information services in British Malaya: Exploring the antecedent growth of public relations in Malaysia

The emergence of government information services in British Malaya: Exploring the antecedent growth of public relations in Malaysia

This article covers the emergence of the first form of Governmental information services in Malaysia. The article gives an account of the importance of the information services in the historical development of the Malaysian Public Relations. The objective of this paper is to look into the origin of...

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Main Authors: Idid, Syed Arabi, Souket, Rizwanah
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
English
Published: 2017
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H61.8 Communication of information
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spelling iium-579332018-01-11T06:36:02Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/57933/ The emergence of government information services in British Malaya: Exploring the antecedent growth of public relations in Malaysia Idid, Syed Arabi Souket, Rizwanah H61.8 Communication of information This article covers the emergence of the first form of Governmental information services in Malaysia. The article gives an account of the importance of the information services in the historical development of the Malaysian Public Relations. The objective of this paper is to look into the origin of the first formal Information Agency in British Malaya and to evaluate how the early information services aided the British economic consolidation during the economic boom and the economic depression years in British Malaya (1910 -1934). The early colonial information services has always been linked to the prolific use of propaganda especially during World War 1 and World War 2 (Idid, 1995). Most often these services were in the form of propaganda agencies under the controlling governments and were often labelled as ‘information’ offices or committees. Some of the common examples include- the office of war information (OWI: 1942-1945), the committee on public information (1917-1919) and the Ministry of Information formed in 1939 that was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. According to Anderson (1989) many of the early information offices that were run by the local governments have been the forerunners of the PR sector in the UK. The current paper attempts to trace the history of the information offices in Malaysia and explores its evolution as a precursor to the PR sector in Malaysia. 2017 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/57933/19/57933-The%20Emergence%20of%20Government%20Information%20Services%20in%20British%20Malaya.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/57933/1/IHPRC%20PPT.pdf Idid, Syed Arabi and Souket, Rizwanah (2017) The emergence of government information services in British Malaya: Exploring the antecedent growth of public relations in Malaysia. In: The 8th International History of Public Relations Conference, 5th-6th JUly 2017, Bournemouth, United Kingdom. (Unpublished) https://microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk/historyofpr/files/2010/11/Abstracts_2017-IHPRC.pdf
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topic H61.8 Communication of information
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Idid, Syed Arabi
Souket, Rizwanah
The emergence of government information services in British Malaya: Exploring the antecedent growth of public relations in Malaysia
description This article covers the emergence of the first form of Governmental information services in Malaysia. The article gives an account of the importance of the information services in the historical development of the Malaysian Public Relations. The objective of this paper is to look into the origin of the first formal Information Agency in British Malaya and to evaluate how the early information services aided the British economic consolidation during the economic boom and the economic depression years in British Malaya (1910 -1934). The early colonial information services has always been linked to the prolific use of propaganda especially during World War 1 and World War 2 (Idid, 1995). Most often these services were in the form of propaganda agencies under the controlling governments and were often labelled as ‘information’ offices or committees. Some of the common examples include- the office of war information (OWI: 1942-1945), the committee on public information (1917-1919) and the Ministry of Information formed in 1939 that was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. According to Anderson (1989) many of the early information offices that were run by the local governments have been the forerunners of the PR sector in the UK. The current paper attempts to trace the history of the information offices in Malaysia and explores its evolution as a precursor to the PR sector in Malaysia.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Idid, Syed Arabi
Souket, Rizwanah
author_facet Idid, Syed Arabi
Souket, Rizwanah
author_sort Idid, Syed Arabi
title The emergence of government information services in British Malaya: Exploring the antecedent growth of public relations in Malaysia
title_short The emergence of government information services in British Malaya: Exploring the antecedent growth of public relations in Malaysia
title_full The emergence of government information services in British Malaya: Exploring the antecedent growth of public relations in Malaysia
title_fullStr The emergence of government information services in British Malaya: Exploring the antecedent growth of public relations in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed The emergence of government information services in British Malaya: Exploring the antecedent growth of public relations in Malaysia
title_sort emergence of government information services in british malaya: exploring the antecedent growth of public relations in malaysia
publishDate 2017
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/57933/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/57933/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/57933/19/57933-The%20Emergence%20of%20Government%20Information%20Services%20in%20British%20Malaya.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/57933/1/IHPRC%20PPT.pdf
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