Independence & Merdeka · event 10 of 10

1971

The New Economic Policy. A programme of affirmative action to raise the Bumiputera share of national wealth, through quotas in education, employment and share ownership. It substantially achieves its economic aims, becomes permanent, and remains the central fault line of Malaysian politics.

The Independence & Merdeka era

  1. 1942
  2. 1945
  3. 1946
  4. 1948
  5. 1957
  6. 1960
  7. 1963
  8. 1965
  9. 1969
  10. 1971

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