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The bulk of Malays in the country at large are humbler town- and village-dwelling people — tending goats and buffaloes, growing rice, and working in the coconut, rubber, timber, rattan, and bamboo industries.
Nationalists in the new United Malays National Organization (UMNO) resented this “foreign” intrusion imposed by 19th-century economic development.
In an era of seemingly perpetual ethnic hostilities, Malaysia can be proud of a unique achievement — the coexistence of the three most prominent peoples of Asia: Malays (mostly Muslim), Chinese (mostly Buddhist), and Indians (many Hindu).
Apart from the few Malays in the settlements’ rural communities of Province Wellesley and the Melaka hinterland, most still lived inland along the middle reaches of the rivers, away from the coastal marshlands dominated by the orang laut pirates.
Under his administration, emphasis was placed on improving the status and position of the Malays and “other indigenous peoples. ”