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The Most Illustrious Order of the Crown of Selangor (
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: ''Darjah Kebesaran Mahkota Selangor Yang Amat Mulia'') is an order awarded by
Sultan of Selangor Sultan of Selangor (سلطان سلاڠور) is the title of the constitutional ruler of Selangor, Malaysia who is the head of state and head of the Islamic religion in Selangor. The current monarch, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah ascended the ...
as a reward for general services to the sultan and state of Selangor. It was founded in 1961. The order is awarded to the relatives of the Sultan of Selangor as well as high-ranking individuals who have contributed excellence to the Sultan of Selangor and the Sultan's Government. The Sultan also has the right to bestow this Degree of Excellence to anyone whom he deems fit and appropriate to receive it.


Classes

The four classes of appointment to the Order are, in descending order of precedence: #Knight Grand Commander or ''Seri Paduka Mahkota Selangor'' (SPMS) #Knight Commander or ''Dato Paduka Mahkota Selangor'' (DPMS) #Companion or ''Setia Mahkota Selangor'' (SMS) #Member or ''Ahli Mahkota Selangor'' (AMS) Seri Paduka Mahkota Selangor (SPMS) can only be awarded to two people at one time and the maximum number of recipients is 40 people. Dato Paduka Mahkota Selangor (DPMS) can be awarded up to 20 people at one time and the maximum number of recipients is 600 people.


Styles

Male recipients of Seri Paduka Mahkota Selangor (SPMS) will carry the title Dato' Seri and their female spouse Datin Seri. Female recipients of the order will carry the title Datin Paduka Seri. Husband to the female recipients will not carry any title. The title ''Dato' Seri'' is a new title that has been approved in a State Executive Council meeting dated 23 December 1998 on the consent of the
Sultan of Selangor Sultan of Selangor (سلطان سلاڠور) is the title of the constitutional ruler of Selangor, Malaysia who is the head of state and head of the Islamic religion in Selangor. The current monarch, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah ascended the ...
. Previously, male recipients use the title Dato' and his spouse Datin, while Datin Paduka is the title given to female recipients. Male recipients of Dato Paduka Mahkota Selangor (DPMS) will carry the title Dato' and their female spouse Datin. Female recipients of the order will carry the title Datin Paduka. Husbands of female recipients will not carry any title. Recipients of Setia Mahkota Selangor (SMS) and Ahli Mahkota Selangor (AMS) will not carry any title.


Appearance


Knight Grand Commander

It is awarded in a set of breast star, a collar, a badge and a red coloured sash with a yellow stripe, worn from right shoulder to the left waist. The collar is made of silver-plated metal and enamel. It is worn on the same length at the front and back. For male recipients, the collar is 100.6 cm long while it is 78.74 cm for female recipients. The differences is because the female's collar is designed to be worn at the neck so it is made without the two chain link in the middle of the male's collar. This necklace has 14 connecting chain link for male, and 12 for female. The two middle chains contain two frames of the Selangor flag that are combined with crescent moon and star. To his left and right are two rubber leaves compositions. All these compositions are made of enamel. The rest of the chain links are round in shape and adorned with coconut leaves around them. These compositions are arranged into four pairs, each of which contains three different types of chromatic compositions, the first containing the word Selangor in jawi, the second contains two crossed fragments of coconut leaves, and the third contains crescent and stars. Each of these compositions is made of shadowed thin, red enamel metal. The breast star is made of silver-plated metal, its surface length is 6.985 cm long and has five arise fractions, complete with circles at the end of each of these fractions, and made of red enamel metal. In the center of this star is a circle of 3.175 cm long bearing the symbol of Selangor state with yellow enamel as the base. The badge is made of silver-plated metal. It is five pointed and decorated just like the breast star. It is also decorated with the engraving of the Selangor State Emblem on red enamel. This badge is made to be suspended on the collar or sash. The sash is made of red silk cloth 10.16 cm in width for male, 5.715 cm for female, with a 2.54 cm wide yellow band in the center.


Knight Commander

It is awarded in a set of breast star, a badge and a red coloured sash with a yellow stripe, worn from right shoulder to the left waist. The shape and size of the badge is the same as the Knight Grand Commander's except the symbols are shown on a flat background, replacing the engraved emblem in the red enamel background in the former. The breast star is also of the same size and shape as Knight Grand Commander's but without the five-pointed silver star. The male sash is made of 10 cm wide red silk cloth with a 2 cm wide yellow band in the middle. To the left and right of the band are two 0.35 cm wide red strips and two 0.35 cm wide yellow strips. The female sash is 5.7 cm in width with a 1.14 cm wide yellow band in its center. Similar to the male sash, it has two red strips and two yellow strips, both are 0.19 cm wide to the right of the yellow band in the middle of the sash. The sash was included in the award from 25 February 1999.


Notable recipients

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Abdul Razak Hussein Tun Haji Abdul Razak bin Dato' Hussein ( ms, عبد الرزاق بن حسين, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset; 11 March 1922 – 14 January 1976) was a Malaysian lawyer and politician who served as the 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia f ...
(SPMS, 1965) * Omar Ong Yoke Lin (SPMS, 1973) *
Mahathir Mohamad Mahathir bin Mohamad ( ms, محاضير بن محمد, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset; ; born 10 July 1925) is a Malaysian politician, author, and physician who served as the 4th and 7th Prime Minister of Malaysia. He held the offic ...
(SPMS, 1978, returned 11 December 2017) * Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah (SPMS, 1982) *
Musa Hitam Tun Musa bin Hitam ( Jawi: موسى بن هيتم; born 18 April 1934) is a Malaysian politician who was Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 1986, serving under Mahathir Mohamad. He was the chairman of Sime Darby Berhad. Early li ...
(SPMS, 1982) * Tan Siew Sin (SPMS, 1985) * Ruby Lee, former Secretary General of the
Malaysian Red Crescent Society The Malaysian Red Crescent Society (MRCS) ( ms, Bulan Sabit Merah Malaysia (BSMM)) is a voluntary humanitarian organization that seeks to promote humanitarian values, as well as provide service and public education in disaster management, as we ...
(SPMS, 1985) *
Hamzah Abu Samah Hamzah bin Abu Samah (5 January 1924 – 4 September 2012) was a Malaysian politician, lawyer and sports administrator who served as the president of Asian Football Confederation from 9 December 1978 to 1 August 1994. In 2006, he was confer ...
(SPMS, 1987) * Endon Mahmood (SPMS, 10 April 2003) * Ahmad Fairuz Abdul Halim (SPMS, 2 December 2004) *
Rosmah Mansor Rosmah binti Mansor ( Jawi: روسمه بنت منصور; born 10 December 1951) is the second wife of former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak. Like her husband, she became implicated in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal. On 1 Se ...
(SPMS, 2005, suspended 6 May 2019, revoked 12 September 2022) * Tengku Amir Shah (SPMS, 2005) *
Najib Razak Dato' Sri Haji Mohammad Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak ( ms, محمد نجيب بن عبد الرزاق, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset, ; born 23 July 1953) is a Malaysian politician who served as the 6th prime minister of Malays ...
(SPMS, 16 March 2006, suspended 6 May 2019, revoked 12 September 2022) * Musa Hassan (SPMS, 11 January 2007) * Khir Toyo (SPMS, 22 November 2007, revoked 30 September 2015) * Jeanne Abdullah (SPMS, 20 December 2007) *
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Tun Abdullah bin Ahmad Badawi ( Jawi: عبد الله بن احمد بدوي; born 26 November 1939) is a Malaysian politician who served as the 5th Prime Minister of Malaysia from October 2003 to April 2009. He was also the sixth president o ...
(SPMS, 27 April 2000) * Arifin Zakaria (SPMS, 11 December 2012) *
Ali Hamsa Ali bin Hamsa (29 August 1955 – 21 April 2022) was a Malaysian civil servant who served as the 13th Chief Secretary to the Government of Malaysia from 24 June 2012 to 30 August 2018. Education Ali graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Hono ...
(SPMS, 11 December 2013) *
Azmin Ali Mohamed Azmin bin Ali ( Jawi: محمد عزمين بن علي; born 25 August 1964) is a Malaysian politician who served as Senior Minister of the Economic Cluster and as Minister of International Trade and Industry from 2020 to 2022. A memb ...
(SPMS, 2015) *
Amirudin Shari Dato' Seri Amirudin bin Shari ( ms, أمير الدين بن شاعري, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset; born 8 February 1980) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the 16th Menteri Besar of Selangor since June 2018, Member of ...
(SPMS, 11 December 2019) * Arshad Ayub (SPMS, 2009) *
Noor Hisham Abdullah Noor Hisham bin Abdullah (born Yew Ming Seong; 21 April 1963) is a Malaysian civil servant and endocrine surgeon who has served as the Director-General of Health since March 2013. Prior to his appointment, he served as the Deputy Director G ...
(SPMS, 11 December 2020)


See also

* Orders, decorations, and medals of the Malaysian states and federal territories#Selangor * Orders, decorations, and medals of Selangor * List of post-nominal letters (Selangor)


References

{{Malaysian honours Orders of chivalry of Malaysia Orders, decorations, and medals of Selangor Selangor