Melihat Tanah Air

Faced with mounting economic and social pressures resulting from the demands of the twentieth-century influx of Chinese, Indians, and Europeans into Malaya, a small group of educated Malays took a different political path than the vast majority in their search for a solution, forming the nucleus of a left-wing political party. One prominent character in Malaysia’s leftist history is Ibrahim Haji Yaakob.

Melihat Tanah Air was Ibrahim Yaakob's first serious attempt to understand and describe the economic and political malaise of the Malays.