Pusat Tenaga Ra'ayat

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The Pusat Tenaga Ra'ayat (PUTERA) was a major political party[ when? ] in Malaysia opposed to the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) [1] and the Malay-supremacist ideology of Ketuanan Melayu . It formed an opposition coalition with the All-Malaya Council of Joint Action. "Ra'ayat" is the archaic spelling for the Malay word rakyat which means "citizens".

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  1. Wah, Yeo Kim (April 7, 2011). "The Anti-Federation Movement in Malaya, 1946–48" . Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 4. Cambridge University Press: 31–51. doi:10.1017/S0022463400016404 . Retrieved 24 August 2023.