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RACIAL UNITY AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION; A CASE STUDY IN THREE INSTITUTION IN
EAST MALAYSIA
NUR-RAFFIDA BT ABDILLAH
TIDS DISSERTATION IS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF
SCIENCE
MATHEMATICS WITH ECONOMICS PROGRAMME SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
UNlVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH
APRIL 2008
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peng~i ian tinggi 4. Sila tandakan (I)
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D TERHAD
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@Tesis dimaksudkan sebagai tesis bagi IJazah Doktor Falsafah dan Sarjana secara penyelidikan atau dlsertai bagi pengaj ian seeara kerja kursus dan Laporan Projek Sarjana Muda (LPSM)
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DECLARATION
I affirm that this dissertation is of my own effort, except for the materials referred to
as cited in the reference section.
10 APRIL 2008
NUR-RAFFI A BT ABDILLAH
HS2004-4443
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CERTIFICATION
CERTIFIED BY
1. SUPERVISOR
ASSOC. PROF. DR. HO CHONG MUN
2. CO-SUPERVISOR
PROF. AMRAN AHMED
3. EXAMINER
PUAN SITI RAHA YU MOHD HASHIM
4. DEAN ~'~:}-r ~ ..
SUYf/KS. ASSOC. PROF. DR. SHARIFF A.K OMANG
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
First and foremost, I would like to express my gratitude to all those people. who have
given me the possibilities to complete this dissertation.
I would like to extend my appreciation to my supervisor, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ho
Chong Mun, and my co-supervisor, Prof. Dr. Amran Ahmed who has dedicated their
precious time and effort in giving me the guidance and assistance in order to help me
accomplishing my dissertation.
My appreciation also goes to all the lecturers who have been teaching me all
these years, giving me the knowledge. so that I am able to apply them in my study. Not
forgotten, my course mates and my friends that never give up on giving their support to
me.
Last but not least, I would love to express my precious gratitude to my beloved
family in Kuching, especially my parents, Mr. Abdillah and Puan Mordiana, for their
non-stop support, for their encouragement, and for their prayers. Their continuous moral
supports give me strength through my hard days. Once again, thank you.
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PERPADUAN KAUM DAN INTEGRASI NASIONAL; KAJIAN DI TIGA BUAH INSTlTUSI DI
MALAYSIA TIMUR
ABSTRAK
v
Kajian ini dijalankan di tiga buah universiti di Malaysia Timur, iaitu Universiti Malaysia
Sabah (UMS), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNlMAS), dan Universiti Teknologi Mara
(UiTM) cawangan Kota Samarahan. Objektif utama kajian ini adalah untuk mengkaji
tahap perpaduan bum di tiga buah universiti tersebut selain mengkaji keberkesanan
Program Latihan Khidmat Negara (PLKN) yang telah dilaksanakan oleh kerajaan.
Daripada kajian ini, anal isis mengenai wujudnya perbezaan min skor antara responden
yang pemah mengikuti program tersebut dengan yang tidak pemah mengikutinya dapat
dijalankan. Selain itu, kajian ini juga mengkaji kepentigan aspek bahasa rasmi,sebagai
medium untuk perpaduan kaum dan integrasi nasional. Data daripada soalselidik dikaji
dengan analisis faktor dan ANOV A. HasH analisis menunjukkan bahawa tidak terdapat
perbezaan min skor antara responden yang pemah mengikuti latihan tersebut. Selain itu,
bahasa bukanlah suatu aspek yang penting bagi memangkinkan perpaduan kaum. HasH
daripada analisis faktor pula menunjukkan bahawa interaksi di dalam kampus dapat
diringkaskan menjadi lima faktor utama iaitu aktiviti sosial, interaksi maya, aktiviti
santai, aktiviti kebudayaan dan aktiviti informal. Manakala interaksi akademik pula
dapat dibahagikan kepada dua faktor utama iaitu formal dan informal. Toleransi etnik
yang pada mulanya mempunyai 33 item pula dapat diringkaskan kepada 11 faktor utama.
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ABSTRACT
This study has been conducted in three universities in east Malaysia, which is Universiti
Malaysia Sabah (UMS), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), and Universiti
Teknologi Mara (UiTM), Kota Samarahan branch. The main objective of this study is to
observe the racial unity and national integration level among the three universities
besides to detennine the national service programme, Program Latihan Khidmat Negara
(PLKN) effectiveness. From this study, a research about whether if there exist significant
different between the respondents who have attended the programme and respondents
who never attended the programme mean can be conducted. Apart from that, this study
also observes the importance of the national language as a major factor for racial unity
and national integration. Data from questionnaires were analyzed using descriptive
method, factor analysis, and ANOV A. From the result of this research, there is no
significantly different between mean score of respondents that have attended the PLKN
programme from those who have never attended. Beside of that, the study of this
research also reveals that language is not a major aspect for racial unity. From factor
analysis, interaction in campus can be summarized into five main factors which is social
activities, virtual interaction, casual activity, cultural activity and infonnal activity.
Whereas academic interaction can be divide into two main factors namely fonnal and
infonnal. Initially ethnics' tolerance have 33 items can be summarize into only 11
factors.
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CONTENTS
DECLARATION ii
CERTIFICATION iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iv
ABSTRAK v
ABTSRACT vi
CONTENTS vii
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS x
LIST OF SYMBOLS xi
LIST OF FIGURES xii
CHAPTERl INTRODUCTION
1.1 INTRODUCTION I
1.2 DEFINITION OF TERMS 4
1.2.1 Defmition and Importance of Racial Unity 4
1.2.2 Definition of National Integration and Obstacle to National Integration 6
1.3 POPULATION OF MALAYSIA 7
1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY 8
I.S RATIONAL OF THE STUDY 8
1.6 HYPOTHESES OF THE STUDY 10
CHAPTER 1 LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 MALAYSIA CONSTITUTION
2.1.1 Definition of the Constitution
12
13
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2.1.2 Elements of the Constitution 14
2.1.3 Issues in Malaysia Constitution 17
2.2 UNITY AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION CONCEPT 18
2.2.1 Theory of racial relations and integration 19
2.3 RACIAL UNITY AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION IN MALAYSIA 21
2.3.1 The Basis of Racial Unity in Malaysia 22
2.4 FORMER RESEARCH FINDING 2S
CHAPTER 3 METHODOLOGY
3.1 INTRODUCTION
3.2 DATA RESOURCE
3.3 RELIABILITY TESTS
3.4 FACTOR ANALYSIS
3.4.1 Eigenvalues
3.4.2 Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Statistics
3.4.3 Factor Rotation
3.6 ANAL YSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA)
3.6.1 Assumptions in ANOV A
CHAPTER 4 STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
4.1 INTRODUCTION
4.2 DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS ANALYSIS
4.3 RELIABILITY TESTS
4.4 FACTOR ANAL YSIS
4.41 Eigenvalues
26
27
27
30
31
32
33
36
40
42
42
48
49
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4.4.2 KMO statistics 49
4.5 ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOV A) 59
CHAPTERS DISCUSSION
5.1 INTRODUCTION 67
S.2 DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS ANALYSIS 67
S.3 RELIABILTY ANALYSIS 68
S.4 FACTOR ANALYSIS 69
5.5ANOVA 72
CHAPTER 6 CONCLUSION
6.1 CONCLUSION 76
6.2 COMMENTS AND RECOMMENDATION 78
REFERENCE 79
APPENDIX A
APPENDIXB
APPENDIXC
APPENDIXD
APPENDIXE
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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
ANOYA Analysis of variance
MSE Mean square between groups
MSR Mean square within groups
SSE sum of squares between groups
SSR Sum of squares within groups
SST Sum of squares total
SPSS Statistic Package for Social Science
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LIST OF SYMBOLS
a Alpha
p Parameter
& Parameter
y Dependent variable
x Independent variable
P Mean of inter-item correlation
N Number of items on the scale
n Sample size
F F-test
Ho Null hypothesis
HJ Alternative hypothesis
E Expected value
< Less than
> More than
S Less than or equal to
~ More than or equal to
= Equal to
~ Not equal to
(J Standard deviation
L Summation
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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure nnmben Page
2.1 The Process of Integration 20
3.1 Factor figure after component principal analysis extraction 3S
3.2 Varimax orthogonal rotations for Figure 3.1 36
4.1 Respondents' awareness of the existence of Jabatan Perpaduan Kaum
dan Integrasi Nasional frequency 4S
4.2 Frequency of respondents' Malay language grade 46
4.3 Frequency of the respondents that admit they understand the
concept of national integration 47
4.4 Frequency of respondents that can list out at least one
programme that base on national integration 48
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LIST OF TABLES
Table Number Page
2.1 Allocation of constitution aspect 1 S
3.1 KMO levels recommendation 33
3.2 ANOVA table 40
4.1 Respondent's Campus Distribution frequency 43
4.2 Race of the students' frequency 43
4.3 Frequency of respondent that have attended PLKN and never attended PLKN 44
4.4 Total Variance Explained for part B 50
4.5 Total Variance Explained for part C 51
4.6 Total Variance Explained for part D 52
4.7 Total Variance Explained for part E S3
4.8 Total Variance Explained for part F 54
4.9 Rotated Factor Matrix for Part C 55
4.10 Rotated Factor Matrix for Part D 56
4.11 Rotated Factor Matrix for Part E 57
4.12 Rotated Factor Matrix for Part F 58
4.13 ANOV A result table for gender 59
4.14 ANOV A result table for language usage and Malay grade 60
4.15 ANOV A result table for campus 62
4.16 Two-way ANOV A result for interaction in campus 64
4.17 Three-way ANOV A result for ethnicity level 6S
4.18 Three-way ANOV A result table for interaction in campus 66
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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 INTRODUCTION
Malaysia is a country inhabited by a multi-racial society. In plural society such as that
of Malaysia, unity and national integration is a vital to ensure the people live in peace
and hannony. Malaysia is unique because although the population consists of multi-
ethnic groups, conflict among the groups is rare. Malaysia, before 1963, is well-known
as Tanah Melayu. Only after the joining of Sabah and Sarawak on August 1963,
Malaysia is officially proclaims as the new name for the country replacing Tanah
Melayu.
Tanah Melayu was granted independence SO years ago on 31st August 1957. To
free the country from the colonialists, local leaders have difficulties to achieve the
independent for the country because of the unity issues. The colonialist has agreed to
free Tanah Melayu only under certain conditions. Their acceptance was conditional on
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the all of the Tanah Melayu residents' unite and supports only one political party that
will take over the government (Mohd Idris Salleh et al., 1994).
Unity issues at the time being are so much complicated and there is too much
dissimilarity ideology between the three main races (Malays, Chinese and Indians) in
Tanah Melayu. The country faced various problems because of cultural, educational
system, settlement, and socio-economic differences. These problems seemingly
constituted obstacles to unity.
Moreover. the Japanese invasion worsened the relationship among the races in
Tanah Melayu because the Japanese were against the Chinese and on the side of the
Malays. Basically, the rise of the unity problems is a result of the colonialist policies
that isolated the local society according to their races and occupation which gives them
small opportunity for interaction inter-racial (Abdul Rahman Embong, 2000).
After few years of struggling, finally Tanah Melayu is free from colonial era. In
August 31st, 1957, independence proclaims was announced by Tunku Abdul Rahman
Putra AI-Haj, the first prime minister of Malaysia. Since then, various efforts have been
initiated to prevent racial problems but the execution of the systems is not efficient thus
its lead to the race riot in 1969. The race riot on 13th May 1969 has raised many
concerns on the importance of tackling racial issues in multicultural society like
Malaysia. Since then, there are numerous actions are taken to overcome the issues
seriously.
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Nowadays, Malaysia is celebrating 50 years of independence from British rule.
As a melting pot of people of various ethnicity, multi-race, multi culture and multi-
religion country, we must aware that unity is the main and the most important factor to
preserve Malaysia as a peaceful country because unity among the various races was the
greatest achievement of the country since it gained independence, besides economic
and infrastructure progress. Hence, to uphold the harmony of the country, the
government has promoted the importance of the racial unity and national integration
throughout the country.
The Bangsa Malaysia (English: Malaysian nation) policy was introduced by
Tun Dato Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, former Prime Minister of Malaysia, to create an
inclusive national identity for all inhabitants of Malaysia. Thus the Bangsa Malaysia is
means people being able to identify themselves with the country, speak Bahasa
Malaysia (the Malay language) and accept the Constitution of Malaysia. This term is
defmed by Tun as quoted in Malaysian Politics under Mahathir by Milne and Mauzy,
(1999), to promoted one nation all over the country.
On 31st August 1981, Rulcun Negara was officially declared. It (Rukun Negara)
is our guide for nation-building and should be respected by all. It is a shared vision for
national unity that should be upheld and practiced for we must never take for granted
the stability, peace and hannony we have attained so far.
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Rukun Negara is defined as official national ideology, whereas national
ideology is characterized as a Malaysian lifestyles which is a multiracial, multi religion
and multi cultural society lives in peace, harmony, and tolerant with each other (Mohd
Idris Salleh et al., 1994).
1.1 DEFINITION OF TERMS
1.1.1 Definition and Importance of Racial Unity
Race is one of main groups that humans can be divided into according to their physical
differences and from different background whereas racial is usually connected with a
person's race as defined in Oxford Advanced Leamer's Dictionary. Unity is defined as
the state of being in agreement and working together. Thus, racial unity can be state as
a group of people that is generally differ in physical appearance and background live
together in harmony and tolerance without a major conflict
The worst race riots in our country, the Chinese - Malay race riot in Kuala
Lumpur began on 13th May 1969 and is often referred as the May 13th incident though
it lasted for some days. This was the aftermath of a major defeat of the ruling UMNO at
the hands of the Chinese Opposition Parties (Democratic Action Party and the Gerakan)
in the general elections held on 10 May 1969 (Mohd Idris Salleh et al., 1994).
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In the riots according to official figures, there were around 200 casualties and
approximately 150 wounded. More than 700 cases of arson and destruction or damage
to 200 odd vehicles were reported. Following the tragedy, Maj/is Gerakan Negara
(MAGERAN) was formed and on 1st July 1969, Jabatan Perpaduan Negara was
established under the governance of Mageran to handle and improve the unity among
races at that time (Comber, 2001).
Majlis Penasihat Perpaduan Negara was formed on 23rd February 1971 after
the dissolvement of Mageran. Jabatan Perpaduan Negara was given the responsibility
to promote and maintain national unity. Between 1990 until now, Jabatan Perpaduan
Negara was under Kementerion Perpaduan Negara dan Pembangunan Masyarakat c z .' < before it is put under Jabatan Perpaduan Negara dan Integrasi Nasional (JPNIN) ~ ~
~!;a (Ramlah Adam, 2004).
There are numerous approach implemented by the Government to maintain the
stability of racial unity in our country, such as the military-style national service
program for 18-year-old youths was introduced in 2004 with the aim of boosting racial
integration. Students are chosen at random and taken to camps for up to three months in
the hope they wil1leam team work and absorb each other's culture.
Theoretically, racial unity is the main factor to stabilize and to maintain our
peaceful country. In Malaysia, government does not impose any restrictions on
minority races, which are free to practice their own culture, religion and education.
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Without the unity among the various ethnics, Malaysia is not as harmony as it is now.
We must admit that the Government has done its job successfully to unite our society
so we can live together peacefully in one country with multi-racial population.
1.2.2 Definition of National Integration and Obstacle to National Integration
Generally, national integration can be defined as a dynamic process to tighten up the
relationship within the countries in Malaysia, especially between the East Malaysia (
the Peninsula) and West Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak) to form a Bangsa Malaysia that
have its own identity base on Federal Constitution and the national ideology, Rukun
Negara as defined by Jawatankuasa lntegrasi Nasional.
National integration may be important to development and is the ultimate aim of
national development, but it is not easily achieved. In the opinion of Hefner (200 1), in
general, there are three elements that affect national integration negatively. These
elements are attached to the question of value and attitude of society, namely,
prejudice, racism and ethnocentricism.
i. Prejudice - attitude towards other groups based on stereotype and is usually
take form of "bad expectations" of other races.
ii. Communalism - attitude of favouring one's own ethnicity whereby an ethnic
group shows favouritism towards those from within the group.
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iii. Ethnocentricism - refers to belief that one's own culture is superior to that
others.
Prejudice, communalism, and ethnocentricism are "inside feeling" that can give
rise to actions of partiality or injustice toward other groups, which can described as
discrimination and gives obstacle to national integration.
1.3 POPULATION OF MALAYSIA
In July 2007, population of Malaysia was estimated about 24,821,286 people with
50.4% of the population are Malay, 23.7% Chinese, 11% Indigenous, 7.1% Indian, and
others 7.8%. And according to the year of 2000 census, the population is dominated by
some IS millions of Muslim, 19.2% Buddhist, 9.1% Christian, 6.3% Hindu, other
traditional Chinese religions such as Taoism and Confucianism is 2.6o/~ other or
unknown is 1.5%, whereas almost 200 thousand of the population, have no religion.
Bahasa Malaysia is an official language of Malaysia while English is a second
language. Other language such as Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka,
Hainan, Foochow), Tamil, Telu~ Malayalam, Punjabi and so on is speak by their
practitioner freely. As in East Malaysia, there are several indigenous local languages,
which most widely spoken are Iban and Kadazan.
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1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
This project has been done to determine the racial unity and the national integration
level among the student of Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), Universiti Malaysia
Sarawak (UNlMAS), and Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM), Kota Samarahan branch.
Thus it will consist only among the involved university's students. The survey will be
distribute randomly among all the undergraduate students.
1.5 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
There are four main objectives of the study. Firstly is to observe the attainment of the
racial unity and national integration based programme that have been implemented by
the Government such as the National Service Programme. Frequently the scheme has
been plagued with problems, including reports of race-based fighting, riots, and
extortion which have prompted opposition politicians to call for it to be suspended.
Various issues have been linked to this programme had arisen and the feasibility of the
programme is doubted.
Secondly is to assess the integration and unity level and the proficiency or
competency of the constitution system execution. The competency of the constitution
execution can be gauge through the accomplishment and the positive outcome of its
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campaigns and programme. As mention earlier, our former Prime Minister, Tun Dato
Dr. Mahathir has introduced the Bangsa Malaysia term as a new identity for all citizen
of Malaysia.
Nevertheless, after half a century into nationhood, the idea of a Bangsa
Malaysia is still nowhere in sight Therefore, through this study perhaps we can identify
what is the root of this racial problem so that we could intensify efforts towards the
creation of a united Bangsa Malaysia where we are known as Malaysians first and
Malays, Chinese, Indian, Iban, Kadavm and many more, second.
Besides that, it is important to perceive the awareness and the comprehension of
the society concerning the Malaysia Constitution and the importance of the racial unity
and national integration to our country. Comprehension concerning the Malaysia's
constitution is an essential to make sure the entire citizen knows the significance of the
constitution regarding the concept of the native privilege position within this country to
avoid misunderstanding. Several times, due to lack of comprehension concerning the
Malaysia constitution, there has been some issues arise respecting of the native
privilege position.
Lastly, is to evaluate the importance of the national language as a major factor
for racial unity and national integration. In Malaysia, language is always being singled
out as the major culprit for the failure of the racial unity and national integration. Some
people refuse to mix up with other race just because they speak different language. We
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often hear the "Bahasa Jiwa Bangsa" quote. But, do we really understand what it is
really mean? Government has allocated an appropriate budget to upscale the national
language. We must aware that language is an identity of the nation and an important
element to reflect the nation itself as Spanish for Spain, Japanese for Japan, Tagalog for
Philippine and as for Malaysia, we speak Bahasa Malaysia (Malay language).
1.6 HYPOTHESES OF THE STUDY
Malaysia'S popUlation of 25 million people is dominated by almost 60 percent Malays.
Chinese and Indians, who began migrating here in the early 19th century, make up 26
percent and 8.0 percent respectively. Without a doubt, Malaysia has enjoyed relative
racial harmony compared to neighbouring Indonesia, where deadly anti-Chinese race
riots struck as recently as 1998, during the Asian financial crisis.
Nevertheless, many citizens lament the lack of ties between majority Malays
and the Chinese and Indians living alongside them. Even though in overall, the
Malaysian people live in harmony but there is some degree of tension due to the feeling
inter-racial distrust. The majority of the races find comfort and security in their
respective ethnicity.
Although the National Service Programme has been plague with problems,
including reports of fighting, riots and extortion, overall the main objective of the
programme, which is to promote national integration and racial unity, is attainable. Any
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