Tun Abdul Razak Foreign Policy

MALAYSIAN FOREIGN POLICY (TUN ABDUL RAZAK)

1.0 INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND

Tun Abdul Razak bin Hussein Al Haj (11 march 1922 – 14 January 1976) was the second Prime Minister of Malaysia, ruling from 1970 to 1976. Born in Pekan, Pahang on 11 March 1922, Tun Razak is the first of two children to Dato’ Hussein bin Mohd Taib and Datin Hajah the Fatimah BT Daud. Of aristocratic descent, Abdul Razak studied at the Malay College Kuala Kangsar.

After joining the Malay administrative service in 1939, he was awarded a scholarship to study at Raffles College in Singapore in 1940. His studied at the college stopped with the onset of the Second World War. During the war he helped organise the Wataniah resistance movement in Pahang. After World War II, tun

Under Tunku abdul Rahman, our first prime minister, Malaysia is one of the anti-communist and pro-western countries that have close links to the commonwealth due to the close relationship between British and Malaysia. After Tunku abdul Rahman, it approach a foreign policy based on non-alignment, neutralization and peaceful co-existence, marked by it involvement in Non-Alignment Movement (NAM). Under Tun Abdul Razak, Malaysia began to identify itself as a “Muslim nation” in accordance with its involvement in the organization of the Islamic Conference

Therefore, Malaysia economy during era’s depending on the foreign countries in term of economy trades and investment (Tun Razak 's Legacy- His Vision, 2008). Malaysia’s economy system was highly agricultural-based thus merchants from Britain who invested and had come control over the trade were biased towards products that were profitable and high demand mainly rubber and coffee. Tun abdul Razak made efforts to close down pro-western attitude such as introducing the New Economic Policy (NEP) whereby he started to find new merchants from countries such as China, Afro-Asia and Islamic countries like