ABDUL Aziz Ishak was born in Perak in 1922, the descendant of prominent Sumatran Malay Datuk Jannatun who migrated to Penang in 1759 or 15 years before Francis Light arrived on the island.
Uneasy with the rapid changes taking place in Penang, which he saw as making the Malays more materialistic, Datuk Jannatun moved to Terong in Perak in the mid-19th Century. Aziz and his father were born there.
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