![]() "If another election were held right now," said one diplomat in KL, "I'm not so sure Rahman Yaakub would be able to form a government." Moreover, since the election the pivotal Chinese community seems to be moving away from the government and toward the opposition. ![]() And this despite reported implied threats that development aid to the state would be cut if the government didn't win a big victory. produced less than 60 per cent for the front in Sarawak. While Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak's National Front was piling up 80 or 90 per cent margins in most areas in last summer's national election, Rahman Yaakub and Co. But there is no doubt that Sarawakians are growing disenchanted with their Malay-dominated state government and the rule of the state's controversial Chief Minister, Datuk Haji Abdul Rahman Yaakub. And even government officials insist that the problem is still manageable. Indeed, the situation has soured so much in recent months that one Malaysian official admitted that Sarawak has the makings of "another Bangladesh."įew people in KL or even Sarawak for that matter predict that the north Borneo province will try to break away from West Malaysia in the immediate future. And lately they have begun to chafe under what they see as continuing domination by the minority Malays. Nearly twelve years after joining Malaysia, the Iban tribesmen and the Overseas Chinese who together make up a vast majority in Sarawak are still having second thoughts about whether they made the right move. ![]() In the rhetorical flourishes of the travel agents, it is "the land of the White Rajahs, the home of the headhunters and an untamed jungle paradise." But to the men 400 miles across the South China Sea in Kuala Lumpur, their faraway riverine state of Sarawak is, quite simply, a worsening political headache for the Federation of Malaysia. This Article is Reprinted From Newsweek (Issue 28.4.75) Which Was Banned in Malaysia in April 1975 Malaysia: Another Bangladesh?
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