2000 in Malaysia

2000 in Malaysia
43 years of the nationhood

Incumbents

Federal level

*Yang di-Pertuan Agong: Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah
*Raja Permaisuri Agong: Tuanku Siti Aishah
*Prime Minister: Dato' Sri Dr Mahathir Mohammad
*Deputy Prime Minister: Dato' Sri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

tate level

*Sultan of Johor: Sultan Iskandar
*Sultan of Kedah: Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah
*Sultan of Kelantan: Sultan Yahya Petra
*Raja of Perlis:
**Tuanku Syed Putra (until May)
**Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin (from May)
*Sultan of Perak: Sultan Azlan Shah
*Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Ahmad Shah
*Sultan of Selangor: Tengku Idris Shah (Regent)
*Sultan of Terengganu: Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin (Deputy Yang di-Pertuan Agong)
*Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan: Tuanku Jaafar
*Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Penang: Tun Dr Hamdan Sheikh Tahir
*Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Malacca: Tun Syed Ahmad Al-Haj bin Syed Mahmud Shahabuddin
*Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Sarawak:
** Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce Mohammad Nor (until November)
** Tun Abang Mohammad Salahuddin (from November)
*Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Sabah: Tun Sakaran Dandai

Events

*1 January - Visit Selangor Year 2000 officially began.
* 1 January - Y2K passes without serious, widespread computer failures, as many experts and businesses had feared.
*January - The KLSE Composite Index rosed up to 1,000 points.
*20 February - Kota Kinabalu was granted city status.
*March - The skybridge of the Petronas Twin Towers is opened to public.
*23 April - 21 people were kidnapped by the Philippine terrorist group Abu Sayyaf at the Sipadan Island, Sabah.
*June - The Teluk Kemang MP by-elections, Barisan Nasional (BN) win in this elections.
*1 July - The Sauk arms heist took happen in Sauk, Perak. Many of Al-Mau'nah gang members are arrested.
*August - Proton Waja, the very first Malaysian-designed car is launched.
*26 September - The first Malaysian micro satellite Tiung SAT is launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
*10 October - Shah Alam was granted city status.
*November - Lunas state assemblyman Dr Jose Fernandes is assassinated in Bukit Mertajam.
*December - Lunas DUN by-elections.
* 22 December - The 2000 Federal Territory of Putrajaya Agreement signed at Istana Negara between Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah with Tengku Idris Shah (Regent of Selangor).

National Day

Main theme

Keranamu Malaysia

National Day Parade

*Shah Alam, Selangor

ports

Births

*Mohd Alaf - First Malaysian millennium baby was born on (1 January)

Deaths

*Tun Sharifah Rodziah Syed Alwi Barakbah — Wife of the first Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra and First Lady of Malaysia
*Tuanku Syed Putra of Perlis and 3rd Yang di-Pertuan Agong
*Dato' Abdullah Kia — State assemblyman for Sanggang, Pahang.
*S.R Anpalagan — Teluk Kemang's Member of Parliament
*Tun Mohd Suffian Hashim — Lord President of the Supreme Court of Malaysia
*Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce Mohammad Nor — Sarawak state Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor)

See also

* 2000
* 1999 in Malaysia | 2001 in Malaysia
* History of Malaysia