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INSTITUT PENDIDIKAN GURU MALAYSIA

KAMPUS PULAU PINANG

ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFECIENCY 1

(article review)

NAMA PELAJAR : MUHAMMAD NAIM BIN RUSLAN

NO K/P : 910121-08-5075

KULIAH/SEMESTER/AMBILAN : T1 PM (AMBILAN JANUARI 2011)

PENSYARAH : MISS PATRICIA MARY A/P FRANCIS

TARIKH SERAHAN : 4 APRIL 2011


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ARTICLE 2

History

The Malay Peninsula was visited near the beginning of the Christian era by traders from Indiaand in the succeeding centuries received, like Indonesia and Indochina, Buddhist and Brahman

missionaries and Hindu colonists. Small Hinduized states sprang up, like Langkasuka in the areaof modern Kedah. In the second half of the 8th cent. the peninsula fell under the domination of

the Sailendra rulers of Sri Vijaya (from Sumatra), who adopted Mahayana Buddhism. Their

cities in Kedah and Pattani rivaled the importance of their capital at Palembang.

The peninsula was overrun in the 11th cent. by the Cholas from the Coromandel Coast of India;

after about 50 years, the Sailendras, somewhat weakened, resumed their sway. Sailendra rule

ended in the late 13th cent., when Sumatra and some southern areas of the Malay Peninsula fell

to a Javan invasion and when the Thai king of Sukhothai swept over the peninsula from the

north. The Sumatran kingdom of Melayu next ruled over the south of the peninsula, to befollowed in turn (late 14th cent.) by Madjapahit, which was the last Hindu empire of Java, and by

the Thai king of Ayutthaya. The fall of Madjapahit opened the way for the primacy of a Malaystate, Malacca (see Melaka). In the 15th cent., the Malays, beginning with the Malaccans, were

converted to Islam (which remains the religion of most Malays).

The 16th cent. brought the first Europeans. The Portuguese seized Malacca (1511), and soon

afterward Dutch traders appeared in Malayan waters. Malacca fell to the Dutch in 1641. Theimportant British role on the peninsula began with the founding of settlements at Pinang (1786)

andSingapore (1819). The coming of the Portuguese had plunged the peninsula into anarchy.

The last sultan of Malacca, in flight from the Portuguese, founded a kingdom based on the Riau

Archipelago and Johor, but the rulers of the petty states in the south gradually achievedindependence, while the rising power of Siam and an increasingly imperial Britain became

rivals. The British established protectorates over several Malay states, and in 1909 the boundarybetween Siam and Malaya was fixed by Siam's transfer to Great Britain of suzerainty over

Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan, and Terengganu.

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ESSAY (article review)

From my point of view,these two article are really interesting because the articles

are not too long and compact.These articles is a common theme of the history of

malay.One about history of the malay peninsula and the another one is about history of

the malay language.

From the first article,we can see that the Malays are the race of people who

inhabit the Malay Peninsula and portions of adjacent islands of Southeast Asia,including

the east coast of Sumatra,the coast of Borneo,and smaller islands that lie between

these areas.In this article,it also mentions that tribal proto-malays,or jakun,were a

seafaring people.There were once probably a people of coastal Borneo who expanded

into Sumatera and the Malay Peninsula as a result of their trading and seafaring way of

life.Then,Orang Selat helps in the making of the great empires of Malacca and

Johor.Deutero-Malays are the descendants of the tribal-proto.Malays mixed with

modern Indian,Thai,Arab and Chinese blood.Malay culture were influenced by other

peoples including the Siamese,Javanese,Sumatran and Indians.The Malay were largely

Hinduized before they were converted to Islam in the 15 th century.Inter-marriages

happen between traders of Archipelago and India along the whole of the west coast of

the peninsula.Malays have also preserved some of their more ancient,animistic beliefs

in spirits of the sil ang jungle,often having resource to medicine men or

shamans(bomohs) for the treatment of ailments.This article is also about the northen

state and the east coast state practice inter-marriage.The mixed from different races

which is either from Thaiese,Javanese,and Bugis.This mix of different races to form


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what is the modern Malay can be clearly seen in the lineage of,for example,Malacca

royalty.

From the second article,it also about The Malay Peninsula.They was visited near

the beginning of the Christian era by traders from India.In the area of modern

Kedah,there was a small Hinduized states sprang up who named like

Langkasuka.These article also shown that the peninsula fell under the dominationof the

Sailendra rulers of Sri Vijaya (from Sumatra), who adopted Mahayana Buddhism.Their

cities were very in importance at Palembang.We can see the early peninsula of the

Malay.The second article also show us The Portuguese seized Malacca (1511), and

soon afterward Dutch traders appeared in Malayan waters.Everybody know that

Malacca fell to the Dutch in 1641.Related to the first article,we can see that there is

nothing telling us about the seized of British in Malay.It much focus on the relationship

Malay with Siamese,Javanese and Sumatran.But,the common thing that these two

article shown The Malay were largely Hinduized before they were converted to Islam in

the 15th century.We can also see the way Malays converted from Hindu to Islam for

example from the marriage.

Nowadays,Malays have been known as Muslim country and anybody who are

borned as Malay,he/she are Muslim.These preacher from Arab Saudi espeacially

influence of this phenomena.As a conclusion,these two article are very interesting for

me and its good for my revision on the history of Malay peninsula because as a

Malaysian we have to know about the history of our lovely country.


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