COMMENT | Kit defined DAP’s vision for a Malaysia that belongs to all from very early on. Much as the party is maligned as fighting for non- Malay interests through the ‘Malaysian Malaysia’ idea, particularly that of the Chinese, the vision he laid out in the 1960s and continues to uphold is much more than the caricature version put forward by his opponents.
On the Malay front, the opponents were Malay right-wing groups, including many in Umno who saw non-Malays as outsiders to our nationhood and sowed anxieties among Malays that non- Malays were threatening their future. There was this idea that the nation had to be dominated by one language and one culture, to the exclusion of other elements.
Positions on these issues were expressed in the Setapak Declaration of 1967, including affirming the commitment of DAP to building a creative and harmonious nation that provided the only way of national integration, not national disintegration, and objecting to a ‘bumiputera’ versus ‘non-bumiputera’ dichotomy.
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