MD Group 2- Adnan Bin Saidi

Group 2 members:
Lee Jiamin (6)
Ng Hui Lian (11)
Ng Kailing (12)
Soh Ginn Ling (16)




Q1: What makes a hero?
A hero has courage to protect his country and overcomes all obstacles that prevent him from achieving his goal.

Q2: What are the conditions to be a hero?
An Honourable Hero is one that is honest, courageous and loyal to his country.

Heroes are people who are sincerely helpful to his country and her people, with a pure heart and mindset, with no scheming motive, even if they are being forced under circumstances to fulfil his duty for his country.

Heroes don’t emerge under special circumstances. They are there all along but they are just waiting for the right conditions and right timing (for example, when the country with weak governing system is in need) to discover their potential and emerge into the world. Much like a butterfly emerging from the chrysalis.

Q3: What challenges does a hero face?
True heroes suffer from humiliations from the under-estimations of his abilities.
Heroes are often sacrificed, but they do not bow down and surrender to the enemies, in order to keep his life.

True heroes are ready to sacrifice themselves to protect what he holds dear and shoulders the burden of the responsibility to protect his surrounding people.

His decision to help, affects everyone, more or less. People doubted his abilities, his pure motive and protest against whatever he proposes to save the country and her people.

External threats from other countries, that do not want to see these heroes succeeding, will do their best and carry out their scheming motive to undermine his heroine effort. Sometimes, even assassinate the heroes to eliminate them once and for all from this world.

Also, there might be a time limit on this hero’s actions. He also needs to consider the best ideas to carry out his motives within the limited time so that it will not harm the country in any way such as politically, economically and socially.

Q4: What are the challenges faced by these heroes such as Lieutenant Adnan Bin Saidi?
-The Battle of Pasir Panjang

He suffered from the humiliation of the Japanese soldiers, though, he’s struggling to defend and, his will is determined, to protect his country and never bow down to the vicious enemy.

The challenges he faced was: there was a shortage of gunpowder and bullets in comparison to the Japanese soldiers. Lieutenant Adnan Bin Saidi own meagre supplies and army of soldiers are incomparable to the Japanese army who has thousands and millions of well-prepared and fully-armed soldiers. Not to mention, his army was heavily outnumbered by the Japanese army too.

The threats that he encountered was his men fighting with him was rapidly gun shot one by one and his manpower was forced to eventually decreased to a handful. Since he had run out of gunpowder and bullets, fighting against Japanese guns and canons with bare hands are obviously said to be futile.

Japanese was known to have the newest inventions and technologies ahead of Malays, thus in utmost advantage, the Japanese army has abundant supplies and countless guns and canons to blast their way through. Without a doubt, the Malay Regiment, with their limited resources, will not stand a chance against them.

Q5: How does Lieutenant Adnan Bin Saidi’s quality help him to overcome the challenges he faced?
In the Battle of Bukit Chandu, he treat his men as buddies who vowed protect the country as one, going through thick and thin together; instead of being treated as slaves who are just merely given orders on how to defend the country and forced to join the Malay Regiment.

In the Battle of Pasir Panjang, he positioned his troops in an advantageous position and gave clear and determined instructions to his men.

His men were greatly influenced by his strong will of protecting what he holds dear to--- his COUNTRY. Thus they stayed bonded as one with Lieutenant Adnan Bin Saidi and respect his decisions in what ever commands he gave to them. Lieutenant Adnan Bin Saidi trusted his men; he had never doubted them or their abilities. This is the one of the qualities that helps him overcome the challenges ahead. As a team, you’ll have to trust one another in order to succeed. Moreover, the Malay Regiment was made up of men being FORCED to defend their country, to contribute labour OUT OF THEIR FREE WILL, thus cooperation was really the key to victory here.

They are united and stand as one, they will never abandon Lieutenant Adnan Bin Saidi, even when he said they’ll fight the armed Japanese with bare hands. In their hearts, although, they’d knew all along that they would end up dead or tortured alive, and that the percentage of them winning the battle is very little, they refused to give up that bit of flickering hope, because their leader, Lieutenant Adnan Bin Saidi, did not and would never surrender to the likes of the Japanese army (determination to strive on). Although, he was shot, he still carried on fighting with his bare hands. Perhaps the soldiers from the Malay Regiment was afraid to die, because, since they’re being forced to join the army, they’ve left their families, left their wives and children behind, so they can’t bear to die; we’ll never know, but one thing’s for sure, they fought fearlessly with Lieutenant Adnan Bin Saidi till the very end.

He gave them the final order when all their hopes were lost that they would fight till the very last man. His motto was to be courageous and truthful to his country. Even under the threats encountered by them, Lieutenant Adnan Bin Saidi proclaimed: “Our Malay Regiment Army, fight in their uniforms; and die in their uniforms; we will NOT BE HUMILIATED!” and “to prove our loyalty to our country, we will now shed blood on this battlefield.” Lieutenant Adnan Bin Saidi’s determination and his ever persistent will to fight on gave him courage and the strength to face the enemies, and even though he was ‘defeated’ physically, but mentally victory was on his side. This can be proved by his refusal to surrender to the bloody hands of the Japanese enemies and thus had to suffer the crude torture, by being hanged on a tree till their body rot and turn to ash, they gave him as the consequences. His true bravery is remembered by all.