Prof. Datuk Dr. Shamrahayu Ab. Aziz Malay Peninsular Malays Indians Orang Asli Chinese MRL Malay Reserve Land
Prof. Datuk Dr. Shamrahayu Ab. Aziz

By Manzaidi Mohd Amin

KUALA LUMPUR – The multi-races people in Malaysia are asked to stop discussing and questioning about who came first to the Malay Peninsula.

The incumbent Institution of the Malay Rulers Chair at Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM), Prof. Datuk Dr. Shamrahayu Ab. Aziz said that everyone ought to accept the fact that all races in the country are components of the citizen.

“We need to stop talking about who came first. We should also think about the interest of the country. Do not polemicize if the Malays or Indians or Chinese or the Orang Asli came first.

“Stop! Stop polemicizing. This will not bring us to the bright future and we can never agree with the history? We should march forward, not backwards,” she said during a discourse of Royal Museum Discourse – The Role of Yang di-Pertuan Agong under Article 153.

Miti Fateema Sherzeella Mohd Yusoff, the Director of Royal Museum was the moderator of the discourse.

According to Shamrahayu, Malaysians are inviting problem in the future if they cannot agree with that, and she invited all Malaysians to unite on the history.

On the Malay Reserve Land (MRL), she said that the sales of the land has been forbidden since the British era as it is a symbol of sovereignty of the country and the image of the race.

Therefore, he said, the MRL cannot be taken lightly by the Malays. Once it is gone, the sovereignty of the race will be wiped out as well.

“The British cared for this. Therefore, it was enacted in the law to hamper the process of land changes.

“Besides that, the Malay Reserve Land is a symbol and core to the national sovereignty. It means that the Malays need to take serious note about this,” she explained.

Meanwhile, Shamrahayu also said that the MRL ruling emerged earlier than 1948, after the Malays opposed to the Malayan Union (MU).

According to her, the Malays were united against it as it was a union which would pose difficulties to the race in becoming citizen during that time.

On the rights of the Orang Asli which was not included in Article 153, she said that the aboriginals have their own policy under Article 8 of Clause 5.

She said, despite they do not own the privileges like the Malays, their position has been explained in Article 8 which focussed on the interests of the Orang Asli. –MalaysiaGazette

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  1. The NEP limiting 30% economy for the indigenous Malay majority to enable 70% economy for the non-indigenous minority clearly violates the constitutional special rights of the Malays and the Social Contract as well, resulting in the deprivation of Malay Reserve Land notably in losing Penang and Singapore. Congratulations to the Azeris for taking back Nagorno-Karabah as rightfully theirs.
    Take a look at the more prosperous and politically stable ICERD ratified small countries like Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, and recently the Dominican Republic still refuse to grant national citizenship for their long-time multi-racial descendants for the sake of protecting the special rights of their indigenous population.

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