The legal status of the states in Malaysia before independence: Whether we had been colonized?
This paper seeks to clarify the legal status of the states in Malaysia before the Independence in 1957 as well as the status of Sabah and Sarawak before they joined Malaysia in 1963. There has been a controversy quite recently regarding the status of the states before 31st of August 1957. This i...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/52705/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/52705/23/52705.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper seeks to clarify the legal status of the states in Malaysia
before the Independence in 1957 as well as the status of Sabah and
Sarawak before they joined Malaysia in 1963. There has been a
controversy quite recently regarding the status of the states before
31st of August 1957. This issue relates to the question whether the
states in Malaysia had been colonised or not. There is a view that
the country has never been colonized because the British was
invited to give advice the Malay Rulers of the peninsula as a result
of protection agreements signed between the Sultans and the
British’s representatives. These agreements did not allow the
British to exercise any jurisdiction which means the states had
never been under British colonization. On the other hand there are
people who argue that the Independence terminated British rule
over the country which means the state had been colonized by the
British. The paper attempts to unravel the legal side of the issue so
that the question of colonization of the states would be understood
better. |
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