JOHOR BARU: The Johor Ruler, who will attend the state-level Thaipusam celebration tomorrow, has reaffirmed the Bangsa Johor concept that embraces inter-faith values as he calls for the people to be sensitive to each other’s religious obligations.
JOHOR BARU: The Sultan of Johor has called for all diving activities off Mersing to be banned temporarily, following the disappearance of four foreign divers off Mersing islands.
JOHOR BARU: Following the disappearance of four foreign divers off an island in Mersing, the Johor Ruler has called for all diving activities there to be temporarily halted.
Before the clearing and excavators and bulldozers, before plans to build a gold mine and oil palm plantations, the Jemaluang and Tenggaroh forest reserves in Johor, Malaysia, were wildlife-rich jungles by the sea. Elephants, tigers and sun bears roamed the rainforests’ dimly lit interiors. Critically endangered tropical trees flourished by the seashore. But in 2014, […]
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IN the 1960s the bumiputra term and the bumiputra/non-bumiputra dichotomy construct emerged as political constructs and subsequently metamorphosed into policy constructs.
Not only have the constructs remained unchallenged but they have become enduring “truths” conditioning the thinking and impacting the lives of an entire generation of Malaysians.
The initial raison d’etre behind the construct by the nation’s political and policy leadership was to create a new political taxonomy to manage and control the political-administrative working and socio-economic development of the country and to prioritise Malay interests.
Evidence indicates that this strategy has succeeded in many respects .