A Nusantara, multicultural and liberal Malaysia – the narrative to counter 3Rs — Wilfred Madius Tangau

and many more which are not part of the vocabulary of Malayan Malays.Being a maritime living space, Nusantara has always been cosmopolitan and open to immigration from within and without the region.

Because many of the Nusantara peoples, especially those in coastal area on trade routes, excelled in trading, our ancestors were constantly exposed to foreign languages, religions and cultures, and they welcomed the traders and missionaries who brought them. Albeit smaller in scale and lesser in range, plural societies started before the colonisation by the Western powers.

In Borneo, we had the Hindu Kingdom of Kutai Martadipura existed for 1,236 years in East Kalimantan just south of Sabah and, as narrated by ‘, a Chinese aristocrat named Ong Sum Ping in the Brunei royal court during the reign of Sultan Muhammad Hassan . Some have the wrong idea that the New Economic Policy can only be justified if the non-Bumiputeras are denounced as unwanted and ungrateful because they resist assimilation. No, if we want NEP to be more accepted by the non-Bumiputera, respect their right – just like our right as Sabah and Sarawak natives – to not be assimilated.

If you tear apart the liberal political system, you also tear apart the moral basis of Malaysia’s existence.menjamin satu cara liberal terhadap tradisi-tradisi kebudayaannya yang kaya dan berbagai-bagai corak. Dr Mahathir’s Vision 2020 listed as the 5th challenge “Establishing a matured liberal and tolerant society.”

For Malaysia to stay decolonised, we must pursue decentralisation of power for all 13 states to prevent the re-emergence of power concentration that, in the worst case, would empower Malayan extremists.Those of us who love the multiethnic, multifaith and free post-colonial Malaysia promised by MA63 must fight off the extremists who want to revert Malaysia back to a monoethnic, monofaith and authoritarian pre-colonial Tanah Melayu.

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