Tahap penerimaan pelajar terhadap peruntukan orang Melayu dalam perlembagaan dari perspektif hubungan etnik di Malaysia

This research aims to examine the level of knowledge, understanding, acceptance and perception among public university students towards Malays in the Federal Constitution within the context of ethnic relations in Malaysia. This research involves 800 respondents selected from four public universities. The data is collected through survey with SPSS to analyze the function of descriptive statistic such as frequency, percentage, mean, cross tabulation and correlation coefficiency to describe and explain respondents’ background and evaluate their level of knowledge, understanding, acceptance and perception towards provisions of the Malay in Constitution. Thefindings of this research also show that the level of knowledge, understanding and acceptance of students towards provisions of the Malay in the Constitution is high in general. However there are clear differences in terms of knowledge, understanding, acceptance and perception level of students depending on their ethnicity and education stream. Based on these findings, a few suggestions are addressed to solve conflicts pertaining Malay. Furthermore, a lot have been made through qualitative researches, but yet a few is done quantitatively. This research therefore is theoretically contributed to the field in term of its quantitative nature with the production of a survey instrument.