Federating Malaysia-a continuous and troubled process
By Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
April 2014EDITORIAL
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Penang Monthly’s cover story this month is about East Malaysia and how it has always been an unknown territory to Malaysians on the peninsula. To start with, we need to remind ourselves of how troubled the beginnings of the Federation of Malaya actually were – and I don’t only mean the Indonesian decision to initiate undeclared war against the new polity. The situation in the region in the two decades following the end of the Japanese Occupation of South-East Asia...
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is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His latest book is Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World (Singapore: Faction Press) Homepage: wikibeng.com.