Wilayah Persekutuan is the Malay term for Federal Territory. Currently, there are three Federal Territories in Malaysia. They are Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan.
The Federal Territories are administered under Federal Territories Ministry. Even though it has equivalent status to other states in Malaysia, it does not have a head of state, nor has any state assembly.
FederalTerritory (Malay: Wilayah Persekutuan) is a collective of three territories, namely Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan, governed directly by the federal government of Malaysia.
As of 2006, all the territories fall under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the FederalTerritories, which was formed under Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's administration on March 27, 2004.
Kuala Lumpur was ceded by the state of Selangor to the federal government on February 1, 1974, while Putrajaya became the third federalterritory on February 1, 2001.
In a federation, the self-governing status of the component states are typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a unilateral decision of the central government.
In its foundation, it is federal, not national; in the sources from which the ordinary powers of the Government are drawn, it is partly federal, and partly national...." This paradox stems from the fact that states in a federation maintain all sovereignty that they do not yield to the federation by their own consent.
A federal upper house may be based on a special scheme of apportionment, as is the case in the senates of the United States and Australia, where each state is represented by an equal number of senators irrespective of the size of its population.
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