KOMODITI GETAH DI NEGERI-NEGERI MELAYU BERSEKUTU (NNMB), 1900-1941

Abstract

This research was actually about the rubber commodity at the Federated Malay States (FMS) in between the year of 1900-1941. Rubbers were actually the first commodity of economic activity at the Colonial British time at NNMB. This article is done by using the qualitative method. This analysis was focus on the document and manuscript on prime resources such as the annual year report and even the British government’s file. What are gains from this research is that the agricultural activity is already becoming a norm for the societies at that period of time and the one that did it the most is usually the Malay citizen at FMS. The type of Plantation that was usually plants by the local communities is such as cassava, pepper, coffee, and gambir. However, there is one popular type of crops and they are rubber plantation. This type of plantation gave a really high profit towards the British and this could prove through the timetable of the import and export of rubber at the international level. For the conclusion of this article is this could make people realize how much does rubber plantation is important especially for the stakeholders other than the British in building good stability of the economy in Malaya. In the end, this article could show how far does rubber could help increase the British economy to a much higher level of stability that can make them stay much longer at Malaya.