LETTER | Putrajaya must honour Onn Jaafar
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LETTER | It is interesting that we now have a lively debate in certain informed circles on approaches to our history.
More than fifty years ago with eminent historians like Wang Gungwu and RR Bonney we took the first steps towards writing a Malaysia-centric history after the earlier phase of Euro-centric history taught in our educational institutions.
In the drive and the haste to achieve development and create new successes, we seem to have overlooked our nation’s own key founders.
After more than twenty years of developing Putrajaya, our national administrative centre, there does not seem to be any single facility of note to honour Onn Jaafar.