Editing Politics of Malaysia (section)

====Malay Union====
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The [[Malay Union]] ({{langx|ms|Kesatuan Melayu}}; '''KM''') was established in 1926<ref>W. Roff 'Origins of Malay Nationalism' p. 190</ref> by [[Mohamad Eunos Abdullah]], [[Tengku Kadir Ali]] and [[Ambo Sooloh]] with the aim of increasing the role of Malays in public life, upholding Malay interests with the colonial authorities, and promote higher and technical education for Malays.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761580116 |title=Muhammad Eunos Bin Abdullah |access-date=25 June 2008 |work=MSN Encarta |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240524182029/https://www.webcitation.org/5kx5sOqgV?url=http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx%3Frefid=761580116 |archive-date=24 May 2024 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> Eunos himself was a [[Justice of Peace]], a member of the '''Muslim Advisory Board''' set up by the colonial administration during [[World War I]] and a member of the [[Singapore Municipal Council]]. In his capacity as the chairman of the KM, he became the first Malay member of the [[Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements]]. One of the first issues championed by the KM was the appeal for land to be set aside for a Malay settlement. The appeal was granted and a sum of [[Straits dollar|$]] 700,000 was set aside for the KM to purchase and develop the land. This settlement has evolved and is now part of the [[Eunos, Singapore|Eunos]] neighbourhood in Singapore.<ref>{{cite book |title=Pioneers of Singapore: Builders of Our Land |last=Lim |first=Lee Chin |author2=Chan Soon Onn  |year=2004 |publisher=Asiapac Books |location=Singapore |isbn=981-229-387-6 |pages=139 }}</ref>

The KM also became the catalyst for the establishment of similar organisations in the other states of the British Malaya such as the [[Penang Malay Association]] (founded in 1927) and the [[Perak Malay Association]] (founded in 1937).<ref name="WilliamRoff" /> People associated with the KM included the first [[President of Singapore]], [[Yusof Ishak]]. The KM survived [[World War II]] and entered into a political coalition with the [[United Malays National Organisation]] and the [[Malayan Chinese Association]] to form the [[Singapore Alliance Party]]. It however eventually faded away with the electoral defeats of the Alliance in the 1955 [[1955 Singaporean general election|legislative elections]] in Singapore.<ref name="WilliamRoff" /><ref>{{cite book |title=Indian Communities in Southeast Asia |last=Kernial Singh Sandhu |author2=A. Mani  |year=2006 |publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies |location=Singapore |isbn=981-230-418-5 |pages=1006 }}</ref>