AAB is now Tun

We shall address the outgoing Prime Minister of Malaysia by Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi from today onwards.

As Najib takes over Abdullah’s position, I attended a seminar today on Malaysian politics at UNC. The talk, titled The Najib Administration: The Politics of Reform in Malaysia by Dr James Chin was organized by the Carolina Asia Center. He gave a brief background on UMNO, which ran a gamut from the Malay supremacy (ketuanan Melayu) to money politics. He discussed several prominent issues that are going to beleaguer Najib as soon as he takes the oath at the Istana Negara, which includes, but not limited to, the New Economic Policy (which he wittily dubbed at the Never Ending Problem), stronger opposition, the rising of SAPP etc. He briefly mentioned Anwar Ibrahim and his sodomy charges. After the seminar, I could not help but thinking that Malaysia would serve as the best option for a political science student who needs a case study to work on.