Thursday, September 11, 2008

Tan Cheng Lock memo 1950

CO 537/6018. Memorandum by Tan Cheng Lock, 22/5/1950.


Dalam memorandumnya, Tan Cheng Lock mengatakan kecuali orang asli, orang Melayu juga adalaah pendatang-pendatang yang baru seperti bangsa-bangsa lain. sumbangan ekonomi orang bukan Melayu sangat penting bagi Tanah Melayu, oleh itu kerakyatan jus soli sangat penting bagi membolehkan mereka terus memberi kerjasama itu. Cadangan UMNO menafikan 90% penduduk Cina yang layak menjadi rakyat Persekutuan Tanah Melayu.

SUMBER: Ramlah Adam, Dato Onn Ja'afar: Pengasas Kemerdekaan (Kuala Lumpur: DBP, 1994)
Comment: Memo ini sebagai sebahagaian usaha melonggarkan cara pengiktirafan kerakyatan Negeri 1951 yang sedang diusahakan oleh British.

pada tahun 1952 dilaksanakan dengan kesan

"
..it is estimated that between 50% and 60% of the Chinese population of the Federation have become citizens by operation of law. This is percentage which will rise substantially as the years pass- others can obtain citizenship by application, by complying with conditions less stringent than those which faces them previouly. of Indian population it is estimated that 30% are federal citizens by operation of law and many more can qualify by application. Since approximately 98% percent of Malayan population are Federal citizens, it is estimated that as the result of Legislation passed last September, some 72% of the total population of the Federal have become citizens by operation of the law".
[CO 1022/172-SEA 92/16/01]

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