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The federation agreement (Perjanjian Persekutuan) set the powers of the federal and state governments. Financial matters must be handled by the respective states. The Sultan was given full power on religious issues and Malay customs. Foreign policy and defence continued to be administered by the British government.
[11]: 103 Differences between states are prominent in the governance of Islam, and in the functioning of the monarchy. [11]: 93 (In states without Sultans, the King fills their role for Islam.) [1]: 175 In some states, especially smaller ones, state government composition is influenced by the composition of the national government. This may ...
Flag of the Federal Territories at the 2011 Merdeka celebrations. Prior to the adoption of the flag, the three directly governed territories of Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan had utilised the flag of Kuala Lumpur to represent the Federal Territories as a collective unit, which was deemed inappropriate by Minister of Federal Territories, Zulhasnan Rafique as it did not reflect that there ...
Red field with a Green Disc in the center and 3 golden crescent moons inside the disc. 1578–1640: Flag of Portuguese Malacca, a colony in the Portuguese Empire: White rectangle centrally charged with the coat of arms, bearing five escutcheons on a white field and seven castles on an ogival or heater-shaped shield, and surmounted by a royal crown.
The first English trader to visit the Malay Peninsula was Ralph Fitch who arrived in the 16th century. [3] However, the British only became formally involved in Malay politics in 1771, when Great Britain tried to set up trading posts in Penang, formerly a part of Kedah. The British established a trading post in Singapore in 1819 and gained ...
The Federal Reserve Unit (Malay: Pasukan Simpanan Persekutuan; PSP), or better known by the abbreviation as FRU, is a riot control force and a paramilitary special response team that can be deployed at any time to engage in any emergency or public unrest in Malaysia.
Sekolah Menengah Agama Persekutuan Bentong (SMAP Bentong), usually known as SUPERB (derived from Sekolah Agama Persekutuan Bentong) (Arabic: المعهد الإسلامي الفدرالي بنتوغ; English: Bentong Federal Islamic Secondary School) is the seventh residential school (Sekolah Berasrama Penuh) in Pahang Darul Makmur, Malaysia.
The Malaysia Agreement, [a] or the Agreement relating to Malaysia between United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Federation of Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Singapore (MA63) was a legal document which agreed to combine North Borneo (Sabah), Sarawak, and Singapore with the existing states of Malaya, [3] the resulting union being named Malaysia.