1 Celebrating Diversity: 10 years of ASLI 10th Asian Law Institute Conference Thursday and Friday, 23 & 24 May 2013, India The Perception of Malaysians on the Concept and Implementation of Federal System – Initial Findings Nazri bin Muslim 1 , Faridah Jalil 2 , Nurhafilah Musa 2 , Khairil Azmin Mokhtar 3 & Rasyikah Md Khalid 4 1. Centre for General Studies, National University of Malaysia 2. Faculty of Law, National University of Malaysia 3. Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws, International Islamic University Malaysia 4. Faculty of Law, University of Technology MARA Malaysia nazrim@ukm.my , faridah@ukm.my, hafilah@ukm.my, kamoktar@gmail.com, kmr572000@yahoo.com Note: Please note that ASLI will distribute the papers to conference participants only for the sole purpose of discussion. The papers might also be put on a USB thumb drive to be distributed to conference participants. Neither the copies in the USB drive nor the printed copies of individual papers will constitute publication; papers will not thereafter be published by the conference organizers nor made available to individuals or libraries. Presenters retain the copyright to their papers and are free to commit them for publication elsewhere. All papers should not be cited without prior permission from the authors. Submissions may be made separately to the Asian Journal of Comparative Law. Please refer to their website at http://law.nus.edu.sg/asli/asjcl.html. The decision to publish will be made independently by the journals’ editorial boards, not the conference organizers or ASLI. For ASLI Secretariat Use Only Date of Presentation (delete where applicable): Thursday, 23 May 2013 Panel Assigned: C1