POLI 423 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysian Indian, East Malaysia
21 Aug 2019
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Islam gets more recognition because islamic law in family matters for muslim, common civil law for all other groups since 1970s. Before that specific customary laws dependent on religion and ethnicity for the other groups: language-religion overlap: constitution says that all malay are muslim. Chinese languages, mostly claim to be buddhist, confucius. Japanese (1940s with philippines): chinese largely opposed the japanese state malays: 1950s chinese communist insurgencies repressed by predominantly malay post-colonial state, ethnic politics very conflictual, not much bringing malay and chinese political elites together. Not much consensus on nation formation (territorial boundaries, citizenship) These 3 parties felt the best way to take it on was to come together and compete against it alliance did better in the first post-colonial elections. But issues which divided ethnic groups were not overcome/avoided (citizenship, language laws, boundaries etc: national alliance: umno, mga, mic.
