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Monday, 23 August 2010

Siapa Sebenarnya Bumiputera di Tanah Malaysia...

"The Lost City of Kota Gelanggi Archeological Find- Menyanggah Kebumiputeraan Melayu di Malaysia” 

Untuk permulaan, antara maklumat yang disebutkan ialah: 

1. Kerajaan Johor dan Malaysia menutup kebenaran kajian Kota Gelanggi itu kerana penemuan kajian itu memaparkan fakta

bahawa kerajaan Melayu adalah sebenarnya keturunan Hindu dari kerajaan Chola India pada abad 12M yang datang menakluk

Tanah Melayu.(Sebenarnya, penaklukan itu diingati oleh bangsa Melayu sebagai raja Suran dalam Sulatussalatin (Sejarah

Melayu). Raja Suran dalah berkait pula dengan kerajaan BuddhaSriwijaya di Sumatera pada abad 7-13M yang menurunkankerajaan Melayu. 

Balasan kita ialah: masyarakat dan sejarawan Melayu tidak pernah menafikan kehadiran keturunan hindu-buddha sebagai

punca kerajaan Melayu. Malah kita menjadikannya sejarah bangsa melayu. Tetapi raja-raja Melayu menerima sejarah global

yang jauh lebih awal dari sekadar Chola India pada abad ke-12 itu. Dari sudut kerajaan di India, fahaman Melayu ialah mereka

adalah keturunan dari Iskandar Zulkarnain dari Yunani (Mekadonia), yang menakluk Parsi, India dan Mesir pada 326 SM(BC).

Justeru itu, semua raja Melayu baik di Malaysia, Brunei dan Indionesia adalah keturunan dari Iskandar Zulkarnain, raja yang

lebih agung dari sekadar Raja Chola yang menjadi sebahagian dari turunan itu. 

2. Raja Suran yang menakluk beberapa kerajaan di Tanah Melayu itu melahirkan kerajaan Sriwijaya di Palembang, Sumatera

yang menjadi punca keturunan Raja-raja Melayu di seluruh Alam Melayu melalui perkahwinan dengan puteri Raja Melayu,

Demang Lebar Daun dengan 'perjanjian' atau 'waad' antara mereka untuk mengahwini puteri Demang Lebar Daun dan

memberi pemerintahan kepada keturunan Raja Suran. Legenda waad antara Deman Lebar Daun, Raja Melayu dengan

keturunan Raja Suran itu adalah suatu bahan gagasan perundangan dan perlembagaan kerajaan yang amat penting. Untuk

pertama kali dalam sejarah wujud gagasan 'social contract' antara raja dan rakyat Melayau yang mengangkatnya sebagai 'YangDipertuan' - 'yang dijadikan Tuan'. Sebab itu semua raja Melayu dipanggil "Yang Dipertuan" oleh bangsa Melayu keraja mereka

mempunyai waad dengan rakyatnya untuk sentiasa memelihara dan tidak memfadhihat rakyat Melayu. Social contract itu

berlaku lama sebelum King John yang zalim, di England menerima Magna Carta (great charter) yang menjadikannya raja

berperlembagaan di England pada tahun 1215 M. 

3. Meskipun raja melatyu dari turunan raja suran berkahwin dengan Puterei demang Lebar Daun, maka pastilah keturunan itu

telah 'masuk Melayu' atau 'jadi Melayu' melaluii perkawinan dan tidak pernah keturunan raja Suran itu dikatakan berkahwin

dengan puterei dari India. maka jadilah raja itu raja Melayu. Walau bagaimanapun, meskipun Raja itu berasal dari India sebagai

turunan Iskandar Zulkarnain, keadaan itu tidak menjadikan negera Melayu sebagai negara India. Seperti mana juga kerajaan

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India adalah dari keturanan Mogol (Genghis Khan) menurunkan Akbar the Great yang Muslim maka itu tidak menjadikan negara

India sebagai negara Mogol atau Tartar. Begitu juga China yang mempunyai emperor dari keturunan Mogol Kublai Khan yang

 juga Muslim dan menubuhkan Yuan Dynasty tidak menjadikan China sebagai negara Mogol atau dapat dikatakan orang Mogol

mendahuli orang China di China. Jadi tuduhan bahawa turunan raja Chola adalah orang India adalah serong dan salah. Inilah

yang dikatakan sebagai 'false conclusion' dalam kajian. Bangsa Melayu tetap berkuasa walaupun keturunan raja asalnya asing.

Sepertimana juga Prince Philip, Duke of edinburg, England sebagai suami Queen Elizabeth, sekarang adalah keturunan Greek-

Danmark tidak menjadikan England atau Britain itu Greek ataupun Danemark. Britain tetap British.  

4. Makalah ringkas itu mengutip beberapa patah perkataan Melayu yang berasal dari bahasa sanskrit sebagai bukti bahawa

bangsa India telah dahulu datang ke Alam melayu. Inipun adalah pandangan yang amat dangkal dan serong serta salah dari

sudut ilmu bahasa dan dinamika perubahan bahasa. Tidak ada bahasa dalam dunia kini yang tulin, jitu atau bersih dari

pengaruh kosa kata asing termasuk bahasa China apa lagi bahasa Inggeris dan semua bahasa dunia. Ambil sahaja satu halaman

kamus bahasa Inggeris, kita akan temui banyak kata asing di dalamnya. Bahasa Melayu juga telah memperkaya bahasa Inggeris

dengan memberikan kata-kata 'amuk' dan 'latah' dan agar-agar. Bahasa China sudah pasti penuh dengan kata-kata asing

terutama tentang konsep 'buddhism' yang datang dari India ataupun istilah teknologi moden yang datang dari Amerika. Jadi

untuk menjadikan kosa kata sebagai bukti kahadiran bangsa asing di Alam Melayu adalah pandangan yang amat cetek serta

dangkal dan salah. 

5. Dengan mengaitkan sebuah legenda yang amat kabur tentang Kota Gelanggi yang berasal dari buku sejarah tulisan bangsa

Melayu, tentang asal usul bangsa Melayu dan menuduh pula kerajaan Melayu/ Malaysia ingin menutup kebenaran sejarah,

pada sejarah itu selamanya sejarah itu dijunjung oleh bangsa Melayu, adalah suatu penemuan yanag jahil, tidak ilmiah serta

serong. Sekaligus tulisan itu mempunyai niat jahat, evil dan satanic. Ia mendedahkan suatu konspirasi bahawa terdapat

golonganorang asing yang menggunakan institusi pengajian asing dan mungkin disokong oleh kerajaan asing dengan subahat

ilmuan dalam negara yang berniat menghapuskan kedaulatan Malayu di negeri Melayu. Malaysia adalah Malay State (Malay +

sia). Sia- adalah kata-kata yang bermakna state (negera) seperti dalam Indonesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, Konsep malaysia

sebagai neghara Melayu telah lama digunakan sejak Hose Rizal, di Filipinan ingin menamakan negara Filipinan sebagai

'Malaysia' pada hujun abad 19. Kemudian konsep itu digunakan oleh para pengkaji Alam Melayu di Eriopah dan sejarawan R.

Emerson yang menulis buku sejarah 'Malaysia: study in Indirect Rule' di Tanah Melayu.  

6. Dari sudut kajian ilmiah, makalah tentang Kota Gelanggi itu adalah 'exercise in futility' yang penuh dengan 'spurious and

tendentious conclusions' serta 'completely unscientific' dan mengandungi motif 'devilish and demonic politics'. Data-datanya

adalah 'a collection of desparate statements without any logical validity and sound reasoning with defensible conclusion'. 

*Dipetik dari : Profesor Datuk Dr Zainal Klin, Kluster Sejarah, Warisan dan Sosio-budaya, Majlis Profesor 

Malaysia (MPN) 

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THE TRUE HISTORY OF MALAYSIA

HISTORY OF CHINESE & INDIANS IN MALAYSIA 

As stated by Raja Petra Kamarudin

A confusion has erupted due to ignorance. It has been stated that the Indians came here as beggars and the Chinese as

prostitutes. Actually, if you were to really study Malayan and Malaysian history over the last 500 years or so, you will find

that this country’s history is not just about beggars and prostitutes. It is about much more than that.

Malayan history has to be dissected into many periods. And each of these periods saw immigration involving almost all the

races in Malaysia, save the Orang Asli (the Original People). In New Zealand, these Orang Asli would be the Maoris and in

Australia the Aborigines. Therefore, anyone who is neither a Maori nor an Aborigine is a ‘pendatang’ or immigrant.  

THE ARABS IN MALAYSIA 

The Arabs and the Indians (Muslims from Gujarat) came to Malaya more than 500 years ago as traders and merchants.

These were the people who brought Islam to this country. At that time, the locals were mostly Hindus while those from

Negeri Sembilan were Buddhists, plus many who worshipped trees, the sea, rivers, mountains and whatnot. The coming of 

the Arab and Indian merchants exposed the locals to Islam.

In those days, the people followed their Rulers. Therefore, when the Rulers converted to Islam the people followed – 

although they may not have believed in Islam or understood the religion. In fact, many till today still do not understand

Islam after more than 500 years.

THE CHINESE IN MALAYSIA 

Then along came the Chinese and many were actually Muslims as well. Islam first reached China around 100 years after

Prophet Muhammad. This means Islam had ‘migrated’ to China about 1,300 to 1,400 years ago, 800 to 900 years earlier

than Islam in Malaysia. Of course, in the northern states bordering Thailand it was earlier than that. (Refer to the Batu

Bersurat discovered in Kuala Berang in Terengganu).

Is it not ironical that Malays call Chinese Muslims ‘mualaf’ when the Chinese were Muslims almost 1,000 years before the

Malays even heard of Islam?

Okay, now take my family as an example. The Selangor Sultanate was founded in 1745. The first Sultan, Raja Lumu,

migrated here from the Riau islands in Indonesia. By then, of course, the Arabs, Indians and Chinese had already been

here 200 to 300 years, some even longer.

But these Arabs, Indians and Chinese were traders and merchants, not warriors or fighters, whereas the Bugis from Riau

only knew one occupation – fighting and plundering. In short, they were pirates, which was a noble profession back in

those days where even Queen Elizabeth the First knighted those English pirates who plundered Spanish ships.

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In fact, the Bugis came here because of a sort of civil war in their home country. There was a fight over a girl and the son

of the local Ruler was killed in that fight. So the offending party was exiled and had to leave Riau. And that was when they

came here in the 1700s and founded the Selangor Sultanate.

Do not members of the Selangor Royal Family fighting with their Ruler and going into exile sound very familiar to you? Yes,

300 years ago this was the ‘tradition’ and still is in my case.

Invariably, the Bugis, being fighters, took Selangor as their territory by the sheer force of its ‘army’. None of the traders ,

who although were here earlier, would dare resist the Bugis who enjoyed killing (some Bugis still do today, as you may

well be aware). But Selangor was under Perak patronage.

So Raja Lumu had to make a trip to Lumut in Perak to get crowned as the First Sultan by the then 17th or so Sultan of 

Perak. (Can’t remember if it was the 15th or 17th but it was around that). And he took the name of Sultan Salehuddin

Shah.

Selangor eventually grew in prosperity. Actually, tin had already been discovered even before Raja Lumu became Sultan in

1745. And it was the Chinese who were working the tin mines. But now, since Selango r had a ‘government’, all the land in

Selangor became ‘state property’. And therefore the Chinese had to get permission from the Sultan before they could mine

for tin.

Around 100 years later, only when Sultan Abdul Samad took over as the Fourth Sultan of Selangor in 1859 (he was born in

1804) did they properly organize the tin industry. New areas were opened up in Ampang, Rawang, Kajang, and whatnot.

And of course, all these tin mines were owned by the Sultan and members of his family — brothers, sons, nephews, etc.

The Malays, however, did not want to work those mines. Conditions were hard and diseases wiped out entire communities.

Those who survived these brutal conditions were the exception rather than the rule. So they needed people who were

desperate enough to work those tin mines and were prepared to take the risk and probably lose the ‘gamble’.  

And who else to talk to if not the Chinese who had already been working those mines for hundreds of years?

So members of the Selangor Royal Family went into ‘joint venture’ with the Chinese, just like they did in Perak, another

rich tin state. The Malay Royals would ‘arrange’ for the tin concessions and the Chinese would provide the labour force to

work those concessions. In a way, you could say that the Selangor Royal Family were the first to ‘invent’ the Ali Baba

system back in the 1800s, long before the New Economic Policy in 1970.

Anyway, to reach Ampang and those other surrounding rich tin areas, they had to travel up the Klang River. Raja Abdullah

and Yap Ah Loy led the first expedition and they landed on the site where the Gombak River and Kelang River meet. The

place where they landed is the site of the famous Masjid Jamek in Kuala Lumpur.

From there they marched overland through the jungle into Ampang. And thereafter Kuala Lumpur was never the same

again. It prospered and continued to prosper over more than 200 years from the 1800s.

Yap Ah Loy bought up a lot of land in Kuala Lumpur and built his business empire. He opened bars, brothels and all sorts of 

businesses, legal as well as illegal (illegal by today’s standards though). Even the British Colonial ‘masters’ would patronise

Yap Ah Loy’s brothels to sample the latest ‘China Dolls’ brought in from the mainland. 

Of course, the normal customers would have to pay for these vices. The British masters, however, could enjoy all these

services for free. Yes, even back in the 1800s the Chinese businessmen were already bribing the government officials.

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Now, while Yap Ah Loy has been entered into the history books as the ‘Founder of Kuala Lumpur’, Raja Abdullah is never

mentioned. The only thing associated with Raja Abdullah is that road in Kampong Baru that carries his name. Yap Ah Loy

may have been the capitalist who opened up Kuala Lumpur.

But he was only able to do so because he had a ‘sleeping’ partner, Raja Abdullah, who gave him all this land to develop.  

Okay, that is the Chinese story. So, yes, some did come here as prostitutes working for Yap Ah Loy. But that was

incidental. Whenever frontier land is opened up the girls servicing these frontier-men follow – like in the Wild West of 

America. Would you say that the White immigrants to America were all prostitutes?

THE INDIANS IN MALAYSIA 

Now, over to the Indians. As I said, the Indian (and Arab) traders and merchants first came here more than 500 years ago

and even brought Islam to this country. But the ‘other’ Indians, the workers, came at about the time that Yap Ah Loy and

Raja Abdullah were turning Kuala Lumpur into a thriving metropolis.

At that time, the British planters were in Ceylon (Sri Lanka today) growing cocoa. Then a plant disease spread throughout

the island and all the trees died. But this disease not only killed all the trees but contaminated the land as well. This means

the land was now useless and it was not a matter of just replanting.

Then the British looked at Malaya and decided that the conditions (land, climate, etc.) in Malaya were the same as in

Ceylon. So they relocated their cocoa estates to Malaya. But there was no way they could get the Malays to work these

cocoa estates. Furthermore, the Ceylonese workers were well trained and had been doing this work for years.

So, in the mid-1800s, the British brought the now unemployed Ceylonese cocoa workers to this country to work the

Malayan cocoa plantations.

Then disaster struck. Brazil over-planted cocoa and this triggered a worldwide glut. It was no longer economical to plant

cocoa. The price you would fetch for your cocoa was lower than your production cost. The British had no choice but toclose down the cocoa plantations.

Around that time, the British, who had mischievously smuggled rubber seeds out of Brazil (which was a crime then),

successfully grew rubber trees in the Kew Gardens in London. They also did some research and discovered a better way of 

planting rubber trees where the trees would give a better yield compared to the trees in Brazil. Rubber planting in Brazil

was haphazard and not properly organized.

Since Malaya had to close down all its cocoa plantations and it now had idle plantation land and surplus Ceylonese workers,

the British planters decided to switch over to rubber. And because the British took advantage of research and technology,

the Malayan rubber trees were more productive and profitable. Eventually, Malaya dislodged Brazil as the top rubber

producer in the world.

So, from the mid-1800s to around 1920, Indians and Chinese came to Malaya in great numbers. This was more or less the

second wave of mass migration. And it was for economic reasons and to provide the labour for jobs that the Malays would

never do. But there were earlier and other migrations as well.

For example, around the late 1800s and early 1900s, the British set up English medium schools for Malays. One such

school, the Malay College Kuala Kangsar, was a school exclusive for sons of Royalty and the Malay elite. Invariably, they

needed schoolteachers who were proficient in the English language. And India offered a good source of English medium

schoolteachers (Malays could not speak English yet at that time).

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On the commercial side, there were many Indian businesses, workers and whatnot. But there was no way they could

qualify for loans from British owned banks. So the Indians from the Chettiar community came here to set up money-

lending businesses to service their community.

When the Malayan rail network was being developed, where else to get the workers if not from the country with the largest

railway in the world, India?

WE ARE ALL MALAYSIANS