10 Facts About Ketuanan Melayu

The concept of ketuanan Melayu is usually cited by politicians, particularly those from the United Malays National Organisation .

Phrase ketuanan Melayu did not come into vogue until the early 2000s decade.

Ketuanan Melayu was succeeded by Tunku Abdul Rahman, who insisted on initial Malay sovereignty.

Ketuanan Melayu is a different person, a Malaysian, but a Malay Malaysian whose authority in Malaya — his land — is not only shared with others, but shared unequally.

Ketuanan Melayu became the Deputy Prime Minister just two years later, under Tun Hussein Onn, who had succeeded Tun Razak upon the latter's sudden death.

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Ketuanan Melayu's administration began the practice of meritocracy, which Mahathir had tentatively proposed, and university admissions quotas were eliminated.

Ketuanan Melayu refused to comment on whether he would repeat the act in the future.

Shortly thereafter, Information Minister Ahmad Shabery Cheek insisted that ketuanan Melayu did not imply a master-slave relationship in any sense between the Malays and non-Malays.

The impact of Ketuanan Melayu was always stronger in West Malaysia than in East Malaysia, where the proportion of Muslims is lower and the population has been more integrated.

However, as Ketuanan Melayu has become more prominent, and has taken on religious connotations in addition to its ethnic ones, tensions in East Malaysia have grown.