Tun Tan Cheng Lock played a pivotal role in getting the British to agree to hold Malaya’s first federal elections in 1955, the prelude to the granting of independence in 1957.
MORE than any other Chinese leader in the formative period of nation-building, Tun Tan Cheng Lock was responsible for securing basic rights and privileges – citizenship based on jus soli (the principle that a person's nationality at birth is determined by the place of birth), protection of Chinese education and culture, and participation in the Alliance governing coalition.
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