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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.
The government’s aim was to broaden the distribution of wealth held by Malays to be undertaken over a 20-year period.
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.
To match their long-term stake in the country’s prosperity, the Chinese and Indians wanted political equality with the Malays.
With Islam as the national religion and Malay — Bahasa Malaysia — as the national language, Malays enjoy practically exclusive access to the principal positions of government at federal and state level.