The Formation Of Malaysia Which Consisted Of Malaya Sabah Sarawak And Singapore Was Founded On

Then prime minister of malaya tunku abdul rahman was initially resistant to the idea of singapore joining malaysia.

The formation of malaysia which consisted of malaya sabah sarawak and singapore was founded on. There were a few factors that contributed to the formation of malaysia. Malaysia was support to be made up of malaya singapore brunei sarawak and sabah. September is a public holiday in malaysia known as hari malaysia malaysia day. Two months later after receiving thousands of letters conducting thousands of interviews with the people of sabah and sarawak and countless public meetings a conclusion was reached.

As a conclusion there are reactions that came from sabah sarawak brunei singapore philiphines and indonesia about tunku s idea to form malaysia. It marked the merging of malaya north borneo sarawak and singapore which left the federation only two years later to form malaysia. Sabah and sarawak were countries when we formed malaysia. He was concerned that the large chinese community in singapore would displace the malays as the majority in the federation.

On 27 may 1961 abdul rahman proposed the idea of forming malaysia which would consist of brunei malaya north borneo sarawak and singapore all except malaya still under british rule. The factor was to gain independence through unification. A claim to the latter territory was maintained by the philippines. The federation of malaysia was formed following the merger of the federation of malaya singapore north borneo sabah and sarawak on 16 september 1963.

The birth of a nation on 16. In 1963 the federation was reconstituted as malaysia when it federated with the british territories of singapore sarawak and north borneo. In my opinion the reaction from these countries did jeopardized tunku s effort to build a new nation consist of sabah sarawak brunei singapore and tanah melayu and these reactions also threatened tanah melayu s security at that time. Out of five countries malaya was the only one to be free from the british rule after its independence on 31st august 1957.

He is going to investigate the reaction of the people in sabah and sarawak towards the merger. Singapore separated from malaysia to become an independent republic on 9 august 1965. 147 148 149 it was stated that this would allow the central government to better control and combat communist activities especially in singapore. There was no malaysia before september 16 1963 and hence there was no east malaysia as such.

Formation of malaysia has accelerated the process of independence. He is going to sabah and sarawak to collect the data from the citizen when formation of malaysia. List of member states. British promise to grant independence earlier in the event of sabah sarawak brunei and singapore joined malaya to form malaysia.

It was a sad thing once malaysia was formed dato ong yoke lin the permanent secretary to the united nations from the federation of malaya notified the united nations that the federation of malaya changed its name to the federation of malaysia when singapore sabah and sarawak were federated with malaya voon stressed.