Nature of 
Johor contr | 
over the con- 
federacy. 
In internal 
affairs. 
Case of To’ 
U van. 
14 REMBAU HISTORY, ETC. 
Certainly Klang cannot be identified with the modern state of 
Sélangor. The Negri Sembilan under Johor was a confeder- 
ation of inland states and the coast line of modern Sélangor was 
opened up by Bugis’ invaders who founded the Bugis line of 
Selangor Raja. (Circa 1715 A.D.)' Native tradition quoted 
by Newbold,’ gives the right bank of the Klang river to 
the Malays, the ieft to the Jakun, and the coast to the Bugis. 
The sphere of influence of the Orang Kaia Kechil, the Undang 
of Klang, was confined under the Mohammedan Sultanate of 
Selangor, according to the same authority, to the upper reaches 
of the Klang river. Klang then as a state in the © Sakai 
confederacy ’ of the Negri Sembilan probably included only 
the Sakai and Mohammedan settlements radiating from the 
hulu of the Klang river. 
The supremacy of the Johor Raja over the oonfadieeies 
finds only spasmodic expression in history and_ tradition. 
Yet the internal politics of Rembau provide one striking, if 
solitary, instance of the deference of the Rembau Chiefs to 
direct orders from Johor. 
Sultan Abdul Jalil Shah, profiting indirectly by the fall 
of the Achinese Empire in 1637 A.D., and directly by the 
aid of the Dutch, brought the influence of Johor in the penin- 
sula to its greatest height in the latter half of the 17th 
century. The contemporary Undang in Rembau was To’ 
Uban (Cirea 1645-1691), the fifth in the list of Rembau Un- 
dang, a Waris Jakun. 
Now the three immediate successors of To’ Uban all 
belonged to the family Waris Jawa, Sedia Raja and the rule 
ofthe alternation of families (gzliran pérut), governing the 
appointment of the Undang, was suspended at the elections 
of the 7th and 8th Undang. 
This breach of constitutional practice is the more re- 
markable that even during the late 18th and early 19th cen- 
(1) v. Maxwell. The Ruling family in Selangor. J.R.A.S.,8.B. 
Vol. XXII, p. 322 
(2) v. Newbold op. cit. Vol. II, pp. 27-80. 
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