VISUAL TIMELINE
The lives of our PMs in an
interactive, digital timeline
Learning about the lives of our leaders
The Prime Ministers of Malaysia,
from Tunku Abdul Rahman to Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, have their stories
to tell of their journey to leadership. We
knew them as our Prime Ministers but
their lives began long before they took
their oath to serve as the heads of our
government. What were their childhood
like? Who were their parents? How did
they get involved in politics? Where did
they work before they became politicians? What were the obstacles they
faced and what events shaped their
decisions?
Their biographies provide the answers to these questions. While we encourage as many Malaysians as possible
to pick up several volumes of the biographies of our Prime Ministers, we realise
that most people do not have the time
to do so.
In an effort to make the biographies of our leaders accessible, Perdana
Leadership Foundation has constructed
a digital Visual Timeline of the lives of
Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj, Tun
Abdul Razak Hussein, Tun Hussein Dato’
Onn, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, and
Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. The timeline is unique in that it offers viewers the
ability to see where the Prime Ministers’
lives intersected with each other’s (did
you know, for instance, that in the year
Tun Dr. Mahathir was born, Tunku graduated from university?), and how key
historical events affected the trajectory
of their lives (the Japanese occupation
disrupted Tun Dr. Mahathir’s schooling
but also shaped his views of Western and
Asian powers).
The timeline is