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Malaysia: Some Problems of Child and Family Law in a Progressive Pluralist Society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

J. Neville Turner
J. Neville Turner*
Affiliation:
Monash University, Australia; President, Children's Bureau of Australia Incorporated. Recently Mr. Turner spent three months at the Institut Tecknologi Mara, Shah Alam, Malaysia
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Extract

A visit to Malaysia is a delight for a comparative family lawyer, especially one who adores satay, nasi goreng and biryani.

The country itself is an unlikely amalgam of two land masses separated by 700 km, containing thirteen States of widely differing cultures. West Malaysia is by far the more populous, East Malaysia the larger geographically. In East Malaysia, a rich country (Brunei) is sandwiched as an independent enclave between the two States which do belong to Malaysia (Sarawak and Sabah). In the Malay Peninsula the port of Singapore, which geographically belongs to West Malaysia, ceded from the Federation in 1965, and is a separate country.

Type
Research Article
Information
Children Australia , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , 1988 , pp. 9 - 13
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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