{"id":1257,"date":"2007-06-04T15:03:13","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T07:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2009-05-02T14:36:18","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T06:36:18","slug":"1252-of-article-152-of-the-malaysian-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1257","title":{"rendered":"[1252] Of Article 152 of the Malaysian Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Malaysian Information Minister Zainuddin Maidin declares that the new (or old; flip-flopping that is common under the Badawi regime makes the old-new dichotomy useless) Malaysian national language is the Malaysian language.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>KUALA LUMPUR: Bahasa Malaysia will again be the official term to be used to refer to the national language.<\/p>\n<p>In a unanimous decision last April, the Cabinet felt that reverting to the term Bahasa Malaysia would help inculcate a sense of belonging for all citizens irrespective of race, said Information Minister Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidin. [<a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/6\/4\/nation\/17923478&amp;sec=nation&amp;focus=1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Back to Bahasa Malaysia<\/em><\/a>. The Star. June 4 2007]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But Article 152 of the Malaysia Constitution says the national language is the Malay language.<\/p>\n<p>Do tell me if there is a translation error. Or, do tell me if the Constitution is a worthless piece of paper. If the Constitution is worthless, then the time is ripe for a spring revolution!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Malaysian Information Minister Zainuddin Maidin declares that the new (or old; flip-flopping that is common under the Badawi regime makes the old-new dichotomy useless) Malaysian national language is the Malaysian language. KUALA LUMPUR: Bahasa Malaysia will again be the official term to be used to refer to the national language. In a unanimous decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[370,110,677],"class_list":["post-1257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society","tag-constitution-of-malaysia","tag-language","tag-zainuddin-maidin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3992,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions\/3992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}