종족별 말레이시아의 정치에 대한 인식조사 : 쿠알라룸푸르 내 대학생을 중심으로

Abstract

Political instability would be an obstacle of economic growth in Malaysia. This is come from historical background. Since the independence from British Empire, an alliance among elite that represents each ethnics has won general elections in Malaysia. But ruling party have materialized policies for a long time without resolution of public sector disputes. Regarding public sector disputes, the most important issue in Malaysia society is social integration and united community. Especially, ethnic tensions and potential conflicts among ethnics would be a critical issue in malaysia. dissatisfaction of minority group could be provoked by political affairs such as electioneering because minority group in malaysia felt they had been discriminate against under government. In fact, NEP(New Economy Policy is oriented to development stratus and economy of Malay in Malaysia. This policy have been criticized from malaysia citizen including progressive Malay. Currently, these basic trend is prevalent in malaysia society. In 2008 general election, BA(Barisan Alternative), the opposite party, swept 1/3 seats of parliaments. Then, BN is afraid of these atmosphere so that Malaysia government impeded 13th general election that must be held by June 2013 as possible as they can. In these social atmosphere, this study aims to analyze citizen's opinion and perception on malaysia politics by ethnics. This is because not only minority group such as Chinese, Indian but also several Malay have complain against Malaysia government according to the media in Malaysia. So, hypothesis of this paper is that: Malaysia citizen has same perception on politics in Malaysia without distinction of ethnics. Namely, all of them have discontentment on Malaysia politics. In the result of empirical analysis, Non-Malay perceive that political institution in Malaysia is not democratic while Malay have a positive attitude on political regime in Malaysia. Also, Non-Malay though that government set a limit on social activity while Malay regard government's regulation as protection from social risk. Consequently, 1) this study confirmed gap of perception on politics in Malaysia between Malay and Non-Malay and 2) only few Malay young people take a progressive stance on politics in Malaysia facing against government and ruling party.