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Malaysia to scrap 55-year-old university law, but will campus reform follow?

South China Morning Post 17 August 2026 12h ago
Malaysia to scrap 55-year-old university law, but will campus reform follow?
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Malaysia may finally scrap the university law that generations of students have blamed for stifling campus dissent, but activists and academics say the harder fight will be over what comes next. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has promised to abolish the Universities and University Colleges Act 1971, better known by its Malay acronym AUKU, a law that has long sat at the centre of arguments over how m
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