Masters of the Sea was a 1994 television drama series produced by the Television Corporation of Singapore

Television Corporation of Singapore

Television Corporation of Singapore was a private company that provide television broadcasting services in then monopolised media industry. TCS existed from 1 October 1994 to 11 February 2001; Singapore Broadcasting Corporation was privatised on 1 October 1994 at 00:00 am...

 (TCS), the predecessor of Mediacorp

MediaCorp

Media Corporation of Singapore, better known as MediaCorp, is a group of commercial media companies in Singapore, with business interests in television and radio broadcasting, interactive media, and, to a lesser extent, print publishing and film-making....

. It was the first full-length English drama series to be produced in Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

. The series starred Wong Li-Lin

Wong Li-Lin

Wong Li-Lin , known by the stage name Li-Lin, is a Singaporean actress. She has acted in dramas such as Triple Nine and Masters of the Sea. After a brief hiatus from acting in 1998, she returned in 2000 and started acting frequently in Channel 8 dramas from 2001 to 2005. She was also one of the...

, Ng Chin Han, and Aziz Mustajab.

Masters of the Sea was derided by some as "fairly disastrous" and lasted only two seasons, with the second season titled Masters of the Sea: In Troubled Waters. One of the criticisms was that it portrayed an elderly Peranakan

Peranakan

Peranakan Chinese and Baba-Nyonya are terms used for the descendants of late 15th and 16th-century Chinese immigrants to the Indonesian archipelago of Nusantara during the Colonial era....

 woman wearing the wrong costumes and ornaments, and speaking the wrong phrases. However, it was syndicated

Television syndication

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 to Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

n television, where it was shown localised

Dub localization

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 into Indonesian

Indonesian language

Indonesian is the official language of Indonesia. Indonesian is a normative form of the Riau Islands dialect of Malay, an Austronesian language which has been used as a lingua franca in the Indonesian archipelago for centuries....

.