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10 Aug, 5 tweets, 1 min read
#TIL Syed Jaafar Albar, a Malay Ultra, came from Makassar just like Najib Razak's ancestors. He came to Singapore as an immigrant when he was 14.
The Malay Ultras of 1960s:
1) Dr Mahathir Mohamed - Indian descent
2) Syed Jaafar Albar - Indonesian descent
3) Syed Nasir bin Syed Ismail - Yemeni descent
4) Musa Hitam - Javanese and Chinese descent.
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Not really sure about the family of Syed Nasir but the rest of the Ultras and their families ended up extremely Rich including many in billionaires' list.
Najib is a court-sanctioned billionaire when the courts returned hundreds of millions of assets back to him.
Zahid Hamidi, a later day Malay-Ultra from Indonesia is also a billionaire.

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