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🇮🇩 Some Indonesian historians claim Sumatera is the “real Malay land,” and that Malays in Malaysia are just migrants from there. But here’s the twist: today, Malays are no longer the majority in Sumatera. Decades of Javanese transmigration have turned the island into a Javanese-majority region. Meanwhile, Malaysia—a multiracial country in Southeast Asia has Malay as the main ethnic group, dominating culturally and politically. Even most of Malay cultures were developed during the Golden Age of

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