1st President of the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia
In office 1968–1971
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Lim Chong Eu
Personal details
Born
Syed Hussein Alatas bin Syed Ali Alatas
(1928-09-17)17 September 1928 Buitenzorg, West Java, Dutch East Indies (now Bogor, Indonesia)
Died
23 January 2007(2007-01-23) (aged 78) Bukit Damansara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Resting place
Bukit Kiara Muslim Cemetery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Political party
Gerakan (1968–1973) PEKEMAS (1973–1978) Berjasa (1982–1983) Independent (1983–2007)
Spouse
Zaharah Abdullah
Children
3
Alma mater
University of Amsterdam
Syed Hussein Alatas bin Syed Ali Alatas (Arabic: سيد حسین العطاسSayyid Ḥusayn al-ʿAṭṭās; 17 September 1928 – 23 January 2007) was a Malaysian academic, sociologist, politician, and founder of social science organisations. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya in the 1980s and formed the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Gerakan). Syed Hussein wrote several books on corruption, multi-racialism, imperialism, and intellectual captivity as part of the colonial, and postcolonial, project, the most famous being The Myth of the Lazy Native.
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