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| TITLE : Melayu Baru AUTHOR : MCOBA-NET PAGE : 2 of 7 |
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| In fact, this Melayu Baru thing is not
new. It started during the days of British colonial rule. For this purpose the Malay
College Kuala Kangsar, or MCKK as it is fondly known to the old boys, was created. The
MCKK was supposed to develop a new breed of Malays who would one day fill the top
administrative positions in the government. The British knew that one day they would have to hand over the running of Malaya to the locals. The master plan of the British was to influence the thinking of the future Malay leaders to be more tolerable and sympathetic to the British. At least if they had to transfer the administration of this country to the locals, let it be locals who have been brainwashed into thinking and acting like the British. The British have admitted that this was their biggest blunder as the whole plan backfired badly. No doubt they managed to create cricket/rugby playing brandy/whisky drinking Malays, but the MCKK also became the seat of Malay nationalism. The was because the MCKK managed to produce an intellectual lot and we all know that when the masses start to think they also start to question authority, in this case British authority. Many of the early independence fighters like the late Sir Dato' Onn bin Jaffar (the late Hussein Onn's father), the late Dato' Abdul Wahab (Dato' Panglima Bukit Gantang and one time Menteri Besar Perak), the late Dato' Laksmana Razali, the late Tun Aziz bin Abdul Majid (one time Governor of Melaka), the late Dato' Haji Kamaruddin bin Haji Idris, the late Tun Razak (the second Prime Minister of Malaysia), the late Raja Sir Tun Uda (one time Governor of Penang), Dato' Bahaman, Dato' Andika Indera, and so on, were allold boys of the MCKK. |
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