{"id":35811,"date":"2012-09-12T04:22:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T20:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/?p=35811"},"modified":"2012-09-12T04:22:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T20:22:18","slug":"malaysias-formation-the-forgotten-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/malaysias-formation-the-forgotten-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia’s formation – The forgotten story"},"content":{"rendered":"

How much do you know about Malaysian history? Many, particularly those from Peninsular Malaysia, focus on 31st August 1957 as independance day, but forget the formation of Malaysia, the nation. Here, we recall the events leading up to nationhood, with a reminder that this was formed as a country for all Malaysians.<\/p>\n

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27 May 1961<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1st Malayan PM, Tunku Abdul \u00a0Rahman discussed about bringing Singapore, North Borneo (Sabah), Brunei and Sarawak and Malaya together in political and economic\u00a0 co-operation in a journalist briefing in Singapore.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/span>Aug 1961.<\/span><\/p>\n

Malaysia Solidarity Consultative Council formed and headed by Donald Stephens (Sabahan) to study the Malaysia Plan.<\/p>\n

16 January 1962<\/span><\/p>\n

Cobbold Commission of enquiry formed.<\/p>\n

21 June 1962<\/span><\/p>\n

Report of Cobbold Commission submitted to UK parliament.<\/p>\n

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1 September 1962<\/span><\/p>\n

Singapore held referendum to decide its participation in Malaysia. 71% voted “Yes” to PAP’s proposal.<\/p>\n

8 July 1963<\/span><\/p>\n

Brunei \u00a0opts out of Malaysia merger.<\/p>\n

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9 July 1963<\/span><\/p>\n

Malaysia Agreement signed in London by Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo and Sarawak\u00a0 representatives.<\/p>\n

20 August 1963<\/span><\/p>\n

Malaysia Bill passed in Malayan parliament.<\/p>\n

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16 September 1963<\/span>\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Proclamation of Malaysia made simultaneously in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Kuching and Kota Kinabalu.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/span>20 September 1963<\/span><\/p>\n

Singapore GE held. Malaya’s Alliance’s parties lost all seats contested.<\/p>\n

April 1964<\/span><\/p>\n

1st Malaysia GE held. PAP won 1 Malaya parliamentary seats.<\/p>\n

1964<\/span><\/p>\n

Racial riots breaks out in Singapore in \u00a0July and September<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/span>5 March 1965<\/span><\/p>\n

Lee Kuan Yew promulgates the Malaysian Malaysia concept to oppose the Alliance.<\/p>\n

1965<\/span><\/p>\n

Growing tension from the UMNO’s ultras and MCA on one side and Singapore’s PAP on another puts Tunku under pressure.<\/p>\n

9 August 1965<\/span><\/p>\n

Malaysia parliament expels Singapore from the Federation.<\/p>\n

-The Rocket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How much do you know about Malaysian history? Many, particularly those from Peninsular Malaysia, focus on 31st August 1957 as independance day, but forget the formation of Malaysia, the nation. Here, we recall the events leading up to nationhood, with a reminder that this was formed as a country for all Malaysians. 27 May 1961 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cover-story"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}