Malaysian student movement before World War II began to grow.

In the early 1930s, Tanjung Marin Sultan diss teacher training college students, set up a fight against the British colonialism and independence Malay motherland YMCA. Bred initiated 1940, University of Malaya in Singapore students and colonialism movement closely linked, they and journalists with national consciousness, union leaders and other social workers to actively participate in the fight for an independent homeland contention. University of Malaya in Singapore student movement, has been held following to the university in 1959 and moved to Kuala Lumpur. In Kuala Lumpur, the first few years, the nature of the student movement has been significantly changed. Students focus only on campus students do, especially with regard to student welfare matters. Malaysian student movement emerged about the social and political activities began in 1967. This year, the events occurred, so that in 1967 became a turning point in the history of the student movement. Since the beginning of the student movement once again a step by step forward. Continue down the years, the students issued a greater voice in the country's political movement has become an important force. Gradually expanding In 1969, the Malaysian student movement has formed an impressive power of social mobilization, Malaysia was enough to start pre-existing political, social and economic order, resulting in greater pressure. Aung straight sets in the same year (Telok Gong) event farmland, farmers are faced with poverty and lack of agricultural land question, thousands of college students leave the campus immediately, solidarity with the local farmers asked the Government to solve the problem. Regulated gradually disappear Faced with an increasingly vigorous student movement in Malaysia at the time the ruling group the National Front (BN) government composed felt strong pressure. In order to avoid free student movement further integration with civil society movement, reaching subvert existing social system, threatening the regime's point of Barisan Nasional, Barisan Nasional government decided to resort to draconian laws to regulate the development of the student movement Be drafted by the Ministry of Education Malaysia Barisan firmly controlled Congress in 1971 passed the "Act of 1971 college", but "College Act of 1971," and can not effectively deter disadvantaged college students participating in community mobilization demands. 1973 Xi Wu Dala fight occurred (Tasik Utara) illegal squatters forcibly removed by the government events, and 1974 Love Ling farmers hunger (Baling) events, college students, or out of the campus in solidarity with the persecuted group. For this reason, the then Education Minister Mahathir modified again "Colleges Act" by adding more and more stringent provisions to limit college students' freedom of association and freedom of expression. Shortly thereafter, the Government has spent the Internal Security Act for involvement of the students launched a large student movement arrests, the students are under long-term detention without trial. A fear in the domestic atmosphere of paranoia, as well as being "Colleges Act" denial of basic civil rights cases, from 1975 to 1998, Malaysian student movement called disappeared.