Empower the Rukunegara

Pix for R.AGE-Students holding cards on Rukunegara.

IT is extraordinary what has happened in our country.

On National Day 1970, the fourth Yang di-Pertuan Agong presented to the nation the Rukunegara, an ideology that sought to establish a common platform for Malaysia’s diverse communities to live together. The Rukunegara was formulated in the aftermath of the “May 13th (1969) Riot” through a consultative process involving a broad spectrum of Malaysian society helmed by Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, then the Deputy Prime Minister and later the nation’s second Prime Minister. It commanded both symbolic authority and political legitimacy.