Kajian Malaysia, published by Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia, is an interdisciplinary journal which provides a forum for a broad range of social sciences and humanities research. This research note presents a bibliometric review of the articles published in the journal Kajian Malaysia between 2011 and 2020. The purpose of this research note is to evaluate publication patterns and the topic model of articles published in Kajian Malaysia. The bibliographical material applied in this study was retrieved from the Scopus database. This study bibliometrically examines 192 documents published in Kajian Malaysia from 2011 to 2020 to rank the most productive countries, institutions, authors, keywords, influential articles and the topic model. This research note assists researchers with an understanding of the development of Kajian Malaysia, provides an important reference for Kajian Malaysia’s future trajectory as well as provides an effective method of analysis for the future evaluation of journals.
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M. Jasni, Siti Hajar Abu Bakar Ah, Norruzeyati Che Mohd Nasir
Imprisonment impacts the life events and turning points of former prisoners upon release. The challenges faced during societal re-integration are contributing factors that shape the life events of former prisoners upon release and subsequently determine their turning point. This study aims to prove that positive life events will cause former prisoners to shape positive turning points after release. Criminal justice studies have since strived to understand the factors that cause former prisoners to repeat their crimes after being released from prison. However, in Malaysia, not many works have explored the factors that cause former prisoners to cease committing a crime. Besides, the successful re-integration of these prisoners is still understudied. The researchers conducted a qualitative study in Kuala Lumpur with 19 former prisoners. The results revealed that 16 informants had repeatedly committed crimes, while only three managed to desist. This study will describe the views and experiences of the three former prisoners (desisters) on how they desist from crime during re-integration. Only three desisters were considered and did not include 16 other recidivist informants since the objective of this study was to identify the success factors for re-integration and to understand the protective factors of former prisoners during re-integration into society. The crucial findings were also discussed, including family acceptance, the presence of a supportive spouse, employment, avoiding negative peers, no drug addiction and being healthy. These factors managed to prevent the former prisoners from committing crimes again.
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Religious tolerance is essential to develop a harmonious coexistence between members of a civilised multi-religious society. This notion is previously observed through a legal perspective, recognition and respect, as well as the absence of discrimination and religious conflict. However, this article looks at a different viewpoint, by utilising the dynamics of halal dining as an analytical tool to examine dimensions of religious tolerance. The study unpacks the religious tolerance experience in halal dining among Muslims and non-Muslims in Peninsular and East Malaysia. We compare the data of religious tolerance in halal dining from both Peninsular and East Malaysian experiences. Data was collected through quantitative surveys and interviews with Muslim and non-Muslim respondents. The findings show that Malaysians practise a high level of tolerance in dining with a few exceptions. These findings exhibit a new dimension of dining as a practical analytical tool, which might have hitherto been neglected in measuring religious tolerance within a multi-religious context.
{"title":"Religious Tolerance Through the Lens of Halal Dining Experience in Malaysia","authors":"Aiedah Abdul Khalek, Ros Aiza Mohd Mokhtar","doi":"10.21315/km2022.40.2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21315/km2022.40.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"Religious tolerance is essential to develop a harmonious coexistence between members of a civilised multi-religious society. This notion is previously observed through a legal perspective, recognition and respect, as well as the absence of discrimination and religious conflict. However, this article looks at a different viewpoint, by utilising the dynamics of halal dining as an analytical tool to examine dimensions of religious tolerance. The study unpacks the religious tolerance experience in halal dining among Muslims and non-Muslims in Peninsular and East Malaysia. We compare the data of religious tolerance in halal dining from both Peninsular and East Malaysian experiences. Data was collected through quantitative surveys and interviews with Muslim and non-Muslim respondents. The findings show that Malaysians practise a high level of tolerance in dining with a few exceptions. These findings exhibit a new dimension of dining as a practical analytical tool, which might have hitherto been neglected in measuring religious tolerance within a multi-religious context.","PeriodicalId":43145,"journal":{"name":"Kajian Malaysia","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87009659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The policy of the Philippines’ claim to Sabah is significantly influenced by the development of the Philippines’ internal politics and the ideology supported by its presidents. During the regimes of President Macapagal and President Marcos, the Philippines’ foreign policy towards Sabah was fundamentally influenced by the irredentism policy in order to claim that region. The claim over Sabah became the Philippines’ national agenda that was previously confined to the territorial issue of the Sulu Sultanate. The changes that transpired in the people’s struggle, especially since the administrations of Corazon Aquino and Fidel V. Ramos, have brought to life the new idea that true nationalism is based on the “people’s interests” as expressed in the People’s Power Revolution. Both presidents later changed the Philippines’ policy towards Sabah to a dormant claim after all efforts made to drop the claim to Sabah met with failure. Thus, this article aims to assess the continuity and changes of the Philippine claim policy on Sabah and the impact of the idea of nationalism on the formation of the policy since the administration of President Macapagal until that of President Fidel V. Ramos.
菲律宾主张沙巴的政策受到菲律宾内部政治发展和总统所支持的意识形态的显著影响。在马卡帕加尔总统和马科斯总统执政期间，菲律宾对沙巴的外交政策从根本上受到统一主义政策的影响，以便对该地区提出主权要求。对沙巴的主权要求成为了菲律宾的国家议程，而这一议程以前只局限于苏禄苏丹国的领土问题。人民斗争中发生的变化，尤其是自科拉松·阿基诺(Corazon Aquino)和菲德尔·v·拉莫斯(Fidel V. Ramos)政府执政以来，带来了一种新的观念，即真正的民族主义是以“人民的利益”为基础的，正如人民力量革命(people’s Power Revolution)所表达的那样。两位总统后来都改变了菲律宾对沙巴的政策，在所有努力放弃对沙巴的主张都失败后，菲律宾对沙巴的主张被搁置。因此，本文旨在评估菲律宾对沙巴主张政策的连续性和变化，以及自马卡帕加尔总统执政至菲德尔·拉莫斯总统执政期间，民族主义思想对政策形成的影响。
{"title":"Nasionalisme dan Perubahan Polisi Tuntutan Filipina ke atas Sabah Daripada Irredentisme Kepada Tuntutan Dorman, 1962–1998","authors":"N. Kadir","doi":"10.21315/km2022.40.2.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21315/km2022.40.2.9","url":null,"abstract":"The policy of the Philippines’ claim to Sabah is significantly influenced by the development of the Philippines’ internal politics and the ideology supported by its presidents. During the regimes of President Macapagal and President Marcos, the Philippines’ foreign policy towards Sabah was fundamentally influenced by the irredentism policy in order to claim that region. The claim over Sabah became the Philippines’ national agenda that was previously confined to the territorial issue of the Sulu Sultanate. The changes that transpired in the people’s struggle, especially since the administrations of Corazon Aquino and Fidel V. Ramos, have brought to life the new idea that true nationalism is based on the “people’s interests” as expressed in the People’s Power Revolution. Both presidents later changed the Philippines’ policy towards Sabah to a dormant claim after all efforts made to drop the claim to Sabah met with failure. Thus, this article aims to assess the continuity and changes of the Philippine claim policy on Sabah and the impact of the idea of nationalism on the formation of the policy since the administration of President Macapagal until that of President Fidel V. Ramos.","PeriodicalId":43145,"journal":{"name":"Kajian Malaysia","volume":"100 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83341596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Norzaini Azman, Nik Sabrina Abdullah, Ibrahim Komoo
In a university system, the key to identifying and rewarding excellence is through academic promotion to professorship. However, research on the characteristics of professors as excellent academic leaders and how they enact leadership activities is very limited. The main issues include unclear definition of excellent professors and in-depth research on the notion and concept of academic leadership. Thus, this study aims to explore the elements of excellence among senior professors in the Malaysian public universities by identifying the strengths and weaknesses of their leadership contributions. Based on a qualitative study and using a document analysis approach on curriculum vitae, ten senior professors holding VK 5 post (Grade A) were selected as respondents using purposive sampling method. They represented the four types of public universities namely research, comprehensive, technical and focused. The findings revealed that in general, the senior professors’ excellent contribution is unbalanced and skewed towards elements related to teaching, research and management. The senior professors reported less contribution involving professional development and public intellectual activities. The findings also showed that they contributed excessively to activities within their own university ecosystem, but less on activities outside their university, and at the regional and international levels. The findings point to several implications for academic leadership theories, policy development, and the status and relevance of the academic profession in Malaysia.
{"title":"Ciri Akademik Cemerlang di Universiti Awam Malaysia","authors":"Norzaini Azman, Nik Sabrina Abdullah, Ibrahim Komoo","doi":"10.21315/km2022.40.2.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21315/km2022.40.2.7","url":null,"abstract":"In a university system, the key to identifying and rewarding excellence is through academic promotion to professorship. However, research on the characteristics of professors as excellent academic leaders and how they enact leadership activities is very limited. The main issues include unclear definition of excellent professors and in-depth research on the notion and concept of academic leadership. Thus, this study aims to explore the elements of excellence among senior professors in the Malaysian public universities by identifying the strengths and weaknesses of their leadership contributions. Based on a qualitative study and using a document analysis approach on curriculum vitae, ten senior professors holding VK 5 post (Grade A) were selected as respondents using purposive sampling method. They represented the four types of public universities namely research, comprehensive, technical and focused. The findings revealed that in general, the senior professors’ excellent contribution is unbalanced and skewed towards elements related to teaching, research and management. The senior professors reported less contribution involving professional development and public intellectual activities. The findings also showed that they contributed excessively to activities within their own university ecosystem, but less on activities outside their university, and at the regional and international levels. The findings point to several implications for academic leadership theories, policy development, and the status and relevance of the academic profession in Malaysia.","PeriodicalId":43145,"journal":{"name":"Kajian Malaysia","volume":"342 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78937178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Among the mualaf (new Muslim converts) issues faced by the Selangor Islamic Religious Council were issues of the struggle for the deceased’s body, religious status, determination of inheritance and the determination of religious status for children. However, the factors that led to the issue of the mualaf, particularly the administrative aspect, gets less attention than the legal aspect. This study analyses mualaf-related issues occurring between 2000 and 2015, factors that caused the issues and how the Selangor Islamic Religious Council administration solved them. The purpose of this analysis is to identify problems and to analyse the factors that caused the issue to persist as well as to highlight the administrative efforts by the Selangor Islamic Religious Council. This study was done using an interview method, literature survey and documentation analysis using the thematic method. The findings found that there were seven main issues concerning mualaf that were associated with registration administration, caused by administrative complications and refusal to amend their religious status. The administrative complications cover three aspects which are incomplete and insufficient registration information, registration not following the procedure and absence of systematic monitoring. Refusal to amend the religious status owes to their desire to keep secret their Islamic status. In overcoming this issue, the Selangor Islamic Religious Council has taken several measures including online registration through the IMualaf and manual registration, obtaining supporting documents from the mualaf, preparing standard operating procedure for mualaf registration and requiring the registration of Islamic status at the National Registration Department. As a result of this study, some improvements in mualaf registration procedures have been recommended. Such measures include conducting mualaf registration on a fully online basis, developing software that allows registration information to be easily accessed and monitored not only, by the Selangor Zakat Council but also by the National Registration Department.
{"title":"Mualaf di Malaysia: Isu dan Penyelesaian Pentadbiran oleh Majlis Agama Islam Selangor","authors":"Sharifah Hayaati Syed Ismail al-Qudsy, Nurhidayah Mohamed Hamidi","doi":"10.21315/km2022.40.1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21315/km2022.40.1.7","url":null,"abstract":"Among the mualaf (new Muslim converts) issues faced by the Selangor Islamic Religious Council were issues of the struggle for the deceased’s body, religious status, determination of inheritance and the determination of religious status for children. However, the factors that led to the issue of the mualaf, particularly the administrative aspect, gets less attention than the legal aspect. This study analyses mualaf-related issues occurring between 2000 and 2015, factors that caused the issues and how the Selangor Islamic Religious Council administration solved them. The purpose of this analysis is to identify problems and to analyse the factors that caused the issue to persist as well as to highlight the administrative efforts by the Selangor Islamic Religious Council. This study was done using an interview method, literature survey and documentation analysis using the thematic method. The findings found that there were seven main issues concerning mualaf that were associated with registration administration, caused by administrative complications and refusal to amend their religious status. The administrative complications cover three aspects which are incomplete and insufficient registration information, registration not following the procedure and absence of systematic monitoring. Refusal to amend the religious status owes to their desire to keep secret their Islamic status. In overcoming this issue, the Selangor Islamic Religious Council has taken several measures including online registration through the IMualaf and manual registration, obtaining supporting documents from the mualaf, preparing standard operating procedure for mualaf registration and requiring the registration of Islamic status at the National Registration Department. As a result of this study, some improvements in mualaf registration procedures have been recommended. Such measures include conducting mualaf registration on a fully online basis, developing software that allows registration information to be easily accessed and monitored not only, by the Selangor Zakat Council but also by the National Registration Department.","PeriodicalId":43145,"journal":{"name":"Kajian Malaysia","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74239237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Communicating stories matter when writers highlight the dynamics of mining the most private experiences for material. Whether humiliating or painful, it is often in the hands of writers that stories are made profound, interesting and fascinating. Yet, to readers, vivid scenarios, specific identification, convincing characters and real-life snapshots, just to name a few, present insights into human condition. Malaysian writers who report such investigations describing more than just their own memories and histories include Bernice Chauly and her critically acclaimed memoir, “Growing Up with Ghosts”. “Growing Up with Ghosts” begins with a private memory of a four-year-old girl at the freak drowning of her father and gradually unfolds into a patrio/matriographic memoir that recounts the paternal and maternal history of her Chinese and Punjabi ancestries. Using key concepts of memory theory and trauma studies including rememory, postmemory and empathic unsettlement, this article primarily examines the collection of episodic and semantic memory presented in the memoir. The reflexive and often sporadic, chaotic recounts following the death of her father provides a vivid depiction of the experience of post-parental death. The findings reveal how the filial memoir implicates the reader through “empathic unsettlement” of the trauma suffered by the memoirist through acts of memory, rememory and postmemory. The reader also suffers the burden through postmemory in the act of reading the delayed, indirect and secondary memory of the memoirist. Reading a multigenre, multivocal narrative can capture the theme of loss and grief not merely as a form of selfpositioning, but more significantly, as a move towards creating an “identity forging discourse”.
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The Malays are the main ethnic group of Malaysia, representing 50.4% of the total population and 63.1% of the population distribution in Peninsular Malaysia. They are among the identified bumiputera, together with the Orang Asli in Peninsular Malaysia and indigenous groups in Sarawak and Sabah. This discourse study relates to the cultural identity of the Malays and investigates their ethics and values from social constructionist approaches. Cultural identity includes the cultural background, religion/spirituality and socialisation. This research concurs with other studies that the Malay culture was characterised by a mix of animism, Hinduism and Buddhism, although the Malays have been identified with Islam as their religion. There are still remnants of animistic and Hinduistic beliefs and practices in the Malay Muslim life, especially in the practice of adat. While adat is a cultural and legally-defined element of the Malays in identity, the foundation of Malay ethics and value system is budi-Islam, adab and akhlak.
{"title":"A Discourse on the Malay Cultural Identity Within the Malaysian Society","authors":"Khalidah Khalid Ali","doi":"10.21315/km2022.40.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21315/km2022.40.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"The Malays are the main ethnic group of Malaysia, representing 50.4% of the total population and 63.1% of the population distribution in Peninsular Malaysia. They are among the identified bumiputera, together with the Orang Asli in Peninsular Malaysia and indigenous groups in Sarawak and Sabah. This discourse study relates to the cultural identity of the Malays and investigates their ethics and values from social constructionist approaches. Cultural identity includes the cultural background, religion/spirituality and socialisation. This research concurs with other studies that the Malay culture was characterised by a mix of animism, Hinduism and Buddhism, although the Malays have been identified with Islam as their religion. There are still remnants of animistic and Hinduistic beliefs and practices in the Malay Muslim life, especially in the practice of adat. While adat is a cultural and legally-defined element of the Malays in identity, the foundation of Malay ethics and value system is budi-Islam, adab and akhlak.","PeriodicalId":43145,"journal":{"name":"Kajian Malaysia","volume":"106 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79454009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The unilateral conversion of minors to Islam is a controversial issue in Malaysia, particularly when it involves conflicting legal rights between Muslim converts and their non-Muslim families regarding issues of parental rights, child custody and determination of the child’s religion. Even more pertinent is the fact that the issue of conversion is intertwined with legal and socio-political issues such as the rising Muslim religious conservatism, Islamisation of law and political identity. As such, this article aims to discuss the issues of parental rights, child custody and determination of the child’s religion in the context of conversion to Islam in Malaysia from a legal and Muslim convert’s perspective. To explore the perspective of Muslim converts on the matter, nine participants were interviewed for the purpose of this study and were recruited through the snowball method amongst activist converts and individuals who were involved in related court cases. This study found that the negotiations that have to be made by these converts demonstrate the pressure they face to prove their commitment to their new religion, all the while maintaining their family dynamic. To some converts, Islam and its terms are referenced in the negotiation process, whether through legal channels or through public discourse; further, there are more peaceful narratives that ensure the family dynamics and its integrity, despite the ultimate goal being a da’wah (proselytisation) agenda. Beyond Malaysia, this study shows how religious laws impact the lives of multiethnic and multireligious community.
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