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Department of Federal Territories (Malaysia)

Malaysian ministry

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ115867140 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Ministry of Federal Territories (Malay: Kementerian Wilayah Persekutuan; Jawi: كمنترين ولايه ڤرسكوتوان), abbreviated KWP, was a ministry and is now a department under the Prime Minister's Department of the Government of Malaysia that is in charge of overseeing the administration and development of all three Federal Territories in Malaysia; Kuala Lumpur, Labuan and Putrajaya.

It is based in Putrajaya with Adnan Md Ikshan as the Secretary-General.

References

Changes in store for DBKL board, The Star, 11 March 2008.

Editorial summary

“Department of Federal Territories (Malaysia)” enters the record as malaysian ministry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Department, Federal and Territories can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Department, Federal and Territories.
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Why this record matters

“Department of Federal Territories (Malaysia)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Department, Federal and Territories provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q115867140. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Department of Federal Territories (Malaysia) primary sources, Department of Federal Territories (Malaysia) archive and Department research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Department of Federal Territories (Malaysia)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.