Pak Ganja, I can understand, I believe, your questioning of this terminology, but I believe that the perspective into which Pak Amuk is attempting to place this question is indeed the correct one.
Of course all these different weapons are not Malaysian weapons. The concept of Malaysia is almost as recent as the concept of Indonesia.
However, all these weapons are weapons of the Malay race.
I understand that you are a man who is well read in history. Consider for a moment the origin of the Malay people in Southern China, Yunnan. Consider the waves of migration which spread down through the Peninsula and into what is now known as the Indonesian Archipelago, but at one time was known as the Malay Archipelago.Consider that it is not so long ago that anthropologists lumped Polynesians and the peoples of South East Asia together, and called them Malayo Polynesian.
The Malay race is very wide spread and very diverse.
So, yes, these are weapons of the Malay Race, but most definitely they cannot all be considered as Malaysian weapons.
This is not a matter for opinion, rather it is a matter of definition in terms, and demonstrable fact.
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