Peninsular Malays Union

Peninsular Malays Union Persatuan Melayu Semenanjung
Abbreviation	PEMAS
Founder	Hashim Ghani
Founded	17 December 1949
Dissolved	23 January 1965
Headquarters	Kota Bharu, Malaysia
Membership	25,000 (1951)
Ideology	Ketuanan Melayu Malay nationalism National conservatism Social conservatism
Political position	Right-wing
Colours	Red
Slogan	Malaya for the Malays
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Peninsular Malays Union (PMU,PMS or PEMAS, Malay: Persatuan Melayu Semenanjung) was a Right-wing party formed by lawyer Hashim Ghani, a former member of Singapore Progressive Party (PP) and Malayan Party. It formed as an alternative to poorer section of Malays as opposed to aristocratic United Malays National Organization. The party were noted for being among the influential party in Singapore in campiagning for Muslim right. The party were banned on the height of Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation in 1965.