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View all search resultsAnwar’s most daunting challenge will be to convince the country’s Malay majority and Chinese and Indian minorities that the multi-ethnic nation will be much more prosperous and more modern when they work together on equal footing.
Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob called for elections 10 months ahead of schedule, with the graft-tainted ruling party of jailed ex-leader Najib Razak seeking to cement its political comeback four years after it was dramatically voted out.
UMNO hopes that the native Malays, who account for nearly 70 percent of the 32.7 million population, will grant an overwhelming victory to the party, using a fearmongering campaign of the rise of Chinese (22.8 percent) and Indian (6.6 percent) minority groups.
For many Indonesians who are suspicious of the integrity of the judiciary system in the country, especially when the court dropped the mega-corruption case involving former president Soeharto in 2000, the system in Malaysia is a model to look up to.
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