Malaysia: Permanent Ethnic Malay Polity

Institutions put in place decades ago continue to shape the country’s political destiny

By: Murray Hunter

The February putsch of the ineffective and sabotaged Pakatan Harapan government by the makeshift flag-of-convenience Perikatan Nasional, which is comprised of an alignment of Malay-centric political parties, is the natural order for Malaysia, made possible by Machiavellian betrayal, a common trait in Malay politics since independence in…