| Abstract | Textbooks are instruments to be media of knowledge transmission for the modern education. Since the textbook is produced under the monitor of the state, the content of knowledge, of course, designed as the demand of the political force through group of special committee or authorized authors. So as it has no possibility to avoid from bias and the state dominant or discourse in history. The example of the discourse, that becomes the keyword of the paper is about the hero in the textbook with the case of the Malaysian secondary school. Besides it reflects through the autobiography, it is also used their names as the names of roads, buildings, places, etc., in order to reproduce the knowledge to the mindset of the people as a collective memory and always realized their past tremendous past efforts. The paper argues that the words hero mentions in various part of the content to indicate their efforts in various forms from intervening, infringing the right and struggling for the independence. Malaysia has achieved in implementing knowledge to construct the plural society and the sense of patriotism.
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