PERMASYHURAN NEGARA MALAYSIA 1963
PERMASYHURAN NEGARA MALAYSIA 1963
16 SEPTEMBER, itulah satu tarikh keramat yang amat bersejarah untuk rakyat Malaysia kerana pada hari inilah bermulanya penyatuan sebuah negara yang bebas merdeka. Dan keunikannya terserlah apabila pembentuk entiti yang bergelar Negara Malaysia itu bukanlah setanah sebaliknya menyeberangi Laut China Selatan. Di dalam pada itu, rakyatnya pula bukan hanya satu bangsa sebaliknya terdiri daripada pelbagai kaum dan agama serta mempunyai adat tradisi beserta warisan yang berbeza.
Menguak pintu sejarah 54 tahun dahulu, pada tanggal 16 September inilah ada satu acara gilang-gemilang pernah diadakan di negara yang membentuknya. Satu persekutuan yang dinamakan Malaysia yang mana pembentuknya adalah Persekutuan Tanah Melayu, Singapura, Sarawak dan Sabah (Borneo Utara nama lamanya). Acara gilang gemilang yang dimaksudkan adalah permasyhuran Negara Malaysia 1963.
Mungkin ramai antara kita tidak mengetahui apakah yang dimaksudkan dengan Permasyhuran Negara Malaysia ini. Dan bagi memberi ruang kefahaman kepada semua, berikut merupakan intipati yang dipetik daripada permasyhuran yang didendangkan di Stadium Negara, Kuala Lumpur oleh Perdana Menteri Malaysia, 54 tahun dahulu. Permasyhuran ini mempunyai dua versi iaitu satu di dalam bahasa Melayu bertulisan jawi dan yang satu lagi di dalam bahasa Inggeris.
======
The Proclamation Of Malaysia 1963
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful, Praise to God, the Lord of the Universe, and may the bediction and peace of God be upon Our Leader Muhammad and upon all his Relations and Friends.
WHEREAS by an Agreement made on the Ninth day of July in the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty-three between the Federation of Malaya, the United Kingdom, North Borneo, Sarawak and Singapore it was agreed that there shall be federated the States of Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore with the Federation of Malaya comprising the states of Pahang, Trengganu, Kedah, Johore, Negri Sembilan, Kelantan, Selangor, Perak, Perlis, Penang and Malacca, and that the Federation shall thereafter be called “MALAYSIA”:
AND WHEREAS it has been agreed by the parties to the said Agreement that as from the establishment of Malaysia the States of Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore shall cease to be colonies of Her Majesty the Queen and Her Majesty the Queen shall relinquish Her Sovereignty and jurisdiction in respect of the three States:
AND WHEREAS there has been promulgated a Constitution for Malaysia which shall be the supreme law therein:
AND WHEREAS by the Constitution aforesaid provision has been made for the safeguarding of the rights and prerogatives of Their Highnesses the Rulers and the Fundamental rights and liberties of subjects and for the promotion of peace and harmony in Malaysia as a constitutional monarchy based upon parliamentary democracy:
AND WHEREAS the Constitution aforesaid having been approved by a law passed by the Parliaments of the Federation of Malaya and of the United Kingdom has come into force on the Sixteenth day of September in the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty-three:
NOW in the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful, I, TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN PUTRA AL-HAL IBNI ALMARHUM SULTAN ABDUL HAMID HALIM SHAH, Prime Minister of Malaysia, with the concurrence and approval of His Majesty the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of the Federation of Malaya, His Excellency the Yang di-Pertuan Negara of Singapore, His Excellency the Yang di-Pertua Negara of Sabah and His Excellency the Governor of Sarawak, DO HEREBY DECLARE AND PROCLAIM on behalf of the peoples of Malaysia that as from the Sixteenth day of September in the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty-three, corresponding to the twenty-eighth day of Rabi'ul Akhir in the year of the Hijrah one thousand three hundred and eighty-three, that
MALAYSIA comprising the States of Pahang, Trengganu, Kedah, Johore, Negri Sembilan, Kelantan, Selangor, Perak, Perlis, Penang,[1] Malacca, Singapore,
Sabah and Sarawak shall by the Grace of God, the Lord of the Universe, forever be an independent and sovereign democratic State founded upon liberty and justice, ever seeking to defend and uphold peace and harmony among its people and to perpetuate peace among nations.
Prime Minister
Kuala Lumpur
Dan pada hari yang sama, nun jauh membelah Laut China Selatan iaitu untuk konteks Sarawak pula permasyhuran yang sama turut diadakan. Ianya bertempat di Padang Central, Kuching yang dibaca oleh Ketua Menteri pertama Sarawak iaitu Tan Sri Datuk Stephen Kalong Ningkan dengan bersaksikan ribuan rakyat Sarawak pada waktu itu. Intipatinya adalah seperti berikut:
=============
The Proclamation of the Sarawak Independence
Whereas one of the Nine Cardinal Principles of the rule of the English Rajahs was that the goal of self-government shall always be kept in mind and that the people of Sarawak shall be entrusted in due course with the Governance of themselves:
And whereas this principle accords with the policy which Her Majesty’s Government of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland have always pursued in the Governance of those territories of the Commonwealth for those affairs Her Majesty’s Government have been responsible.
And whereas in pursuance of this principle Her Majesty’s Government by an agreement entered into on the 9th day of July, 1963, with the Government of the Federation of Malaya, the Government of the State of Singapore and the Governments of the Colonies of Sarawak and North Borneo it was agreed that the States of Singapore and the Colonies of Sarawak and North Borneo shall be federated with the Federation of Malaya, and that the said Federation shall be known as Malaysia:
And whereas Constitutions for Malaysia and for the States of Sarawak, Sabah and Singapore have been promulgated: And whereas by a Proclamation made under Section 2 of the Malaysia Act the 16th day of September, 1963 has been proclaimed as Malaysia Day:
Now therefore I, Stephen Kalong Ningkan, the Chief Minister of Sarawak, hereby proclaim that Sarawak has this day attained independence as the State of Malaysia.
Stephen Kalong Ningkan
Chief Minister
Satu acara punya visi dan misi yang sama cuma diperdengarkan pada tempat yang berbeza. 54 tahun dahulu, Negara Malaysia itu berempat sehinggalah pada tanggal 9 Ogos 1965, kita hanya tinggal bertiga apabila Singapura memilih jalannya sendiri. Walaupun hanya bertiga tetapi satu persekutuan yang dibentuk ini tetap masih utuh menongkah arus liku-liku mempertahankan kedaulatannya sehinggalah sekarang.
Sewajarnya apa yang didengdangkan 54 tahun dahulu oleh pemimpin-pemimpin kita dipegang dan disimpan sebagai azimat yang melekat di sanubari setiap antara kita yang menggelar dirinya anak Malaysia. Bumi mana yang tidak ditimpa hujan maka begitulah juga Malaysia bila berbicara konteks rakan-rakan sejajarnya. Kita harus berpijak di bumi yang nyata bahawa tanpa Sarawak mahupun Sabah serta Malaya sekalipun TIDAK AKAN WUJUD NEGARA MALAYSIA. Bagai aur dengan tebing itulah kita semua.
Selamat Menyambut Hari Malaysia yang ke 54 tahun untuk seluruh rakyat Malaysia walau dimana jua anda berada.
Rujukan:
1. Documents Of Proclamation Of Malaysia 1963
http://www.arkib.gov.my/en/web/guest/pemasyhuran-malaysia-1963
