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An award winning film portrays the political dangers and serious health risks faced by women seeking abortions in Ceauşescu's Romania, writes Khalid Ali

The Malays are the main ethnic group of Malaysia, representing 50.4% of the total population and 63.1% of the population distribution in Peninsular Malaysia. They are among the identified bumiputera, together with the Orang Asli in Peninsular Malaysia and indigenous groups in Sarawak and Sabah. This discourse study relates to the cultural identity of the Malays and investigates their ethics and values from social constructionist approaches. Cultural identity includes the cultural background, religion/spirituality and socialisation. This research concurs with other studies that the Malay culture was characterised by a mix of animism, Hinduism and Buddhism, although the Malays have been identified with Islam as their religion. There are still remnants of animistic and Hinduistic beliefs and practices in the Malay Muslim life, especially in the practice of adat. While adat is a cultural and legally-defined element of the Malays in identity, the foundation of Malay ethics and value system is budi-Islam, adab and akhlak.

In this research, the researcher dealt with the issue of contrariness of laws in contractual obligations and the role of the will in determining the applicable law in the Jordanian civil law. In addition, contrariness of laws requires several conditions to exist, including the legal relationship of a foreign element, the acceptance of countries to apply foreign law before their courts, and the difference in legislation between countries. The Jordanian private international law, like most of the world’s legislation, has subjected the rules of attribution related to contractual obligations to the law chosen by the contracting parties, which is known as the law of will or the principle of the power of will, and the Jordanian legislator has subjected contractual obligations to the law of the country in which the joint home of the contracting parties is located if they are united. But in case they differ, the obligations are subject to the law of the country in which the contract was made. This means that the contracting parties are free to choose the law applicable to the contractual relations as soon as the offer is linked to the acceptance in the agreement concluded between the contracting parties when the terms and conditions of the contract are fulfilled.