What is the history of UKM’s establishment?

The very first idea to establish a higher education centre for Malay community happened in the meeting of Conference of Rulers in 1903. An intellectual named Za’ba wrote about it on the newspaper ‘Lembaga Melayu’ in 1917.

The thinking movements, debates and constant determination of Malay intellectuals to create a university that uses Malay language, Malaysia’s national language as medium language in any institutes of higher education, started in 1923 when Abdul Kadir Adabi, another Malay intellectual submitted the memorandum of the idea to DYMM Sultan Kelantan.

However, the idea and the determination to make it came true can not be developed gradually due to many obstacles and difficulties from the oppresion of colonialisme.

Nonetheless, the ideas, the thoughts, the spirit and the determination continues to live in the minds of Malay intellectuals. The battle of the national university establishment was at its peak when the country managed to secure its independence in 1957.