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Second Class Bumiputera? The Taming of the Dayaks and Kadazandusun of East Malaysia
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Chin, JU, Second Class Bumiputera? The Taming of the Dayaks and Kadazandusun of East Malaysia, Misplaced Democracy: Malaysian Politics and People, Strategic Information and Research Development Centre, S Lemiere (ed), Selangor, Malaysia, pp. 109-127. ISBN 9789670630175 (2014) [Research Book Chapter]
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Abstract
This paper traces the political marginalisation of the main Bumiputera
(indigenous) political grouping in the East Malaysian state of Sarawak
and Sabah. Oten ignored by scholars working on Malaysia, their political
plight and marginalisation by the Muslim powerbrokers in both states in
the past two decades is symbolic of the making of a ‘Malay Muslim’ state,
rather than the promise of multi-ethnic and multi-religious Malaysian
federation. In theory, the Bumiputera are favoured in all political, economic
and social spheres under the infamous New Economic Policy (NEP). hey
are supposed to get easy access to government jobs, scholarships and places
in public universities, special licences and easy credit. In reality, it would
appear that these beneits are only available to Muslim Bumiputera (MB)
while the majority Bumiputera, being non-Malay and non-Muslims, are
marginalised or get very little beneit from the NEP and other airmative
action policies.
Since the early 1990s, politics in Sarawak and Sabah can best be
described as an unequal contest between the three main groups: the Muslim
Bumiputera (MB), the Non-Muslim Bumiputera (NMB) and the Chinese.
he largest NMB political grouping in Sarawak is the Dayak and in Sabah
the Kadazandusun.
Item Details
Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Political science |
Research Field: | Government and politics of Asia and the Pacific |
Objective Division: | Law, Politics and Community Services |
Objective Group: | Government and politics |
Objective Field: | Government and politics not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Chin, JU (Professor James Chin) |
ID Code: | 99774 |
Year Published: | 2014 |
Deposited By: | School of Humanities |
Deposited On: | 2015-04-09 |
Last Modified: | 2017-08-11 |
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