Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te marama o Mei 1975, i muri tata mai o te
I te hinganga o Saigon i te mutunga o te Pakanga o Vietnam, ka tae mai nga rerenga Vietnamese tuatahi ki Malaysia, a ko te poti tuatahi i tae mai e kawe ana i nga rerenga 47. Tae noa ki te tau 1978, he maha atu nga Vietnamese i rere i to ratou whenua, a he maha o ratou no te uri Hainamana. E ai ki ngā tatauranga a te kāwanatanga o Malaysia, i whakawhiwhia te whenua ki te 19,000 rerenga i Whiringa-ā-nuku 1978, i whakaritea ki te 500 i te 1977. I whakautu te kawanatanga o Malaysia ma te tohutohu i tana Manatū o roto ki te whakatuu i te Federal Task Force VII i te 1978, i whakawhiwhia ki te aukati i te piki haere o te maha o nga rerenga mai i te taunga ki Malaysia. I pūrongotia e te pāpāho ngā take o te pirihimana o Malaysia me ngā kaimahi hōia e whakaheke ana i ngā rerenga, engari i whai wāhi ētahi rerenga ki te tuku i a rātau poti kia whakaaetia ki Malaysia. I te wā i whakamōhiotia ai te kāwanatanga ki ngā whakamātau kaipuke-whakaheke i mahia e ngā rerenga, i kii te Pirimia Tuarua o te wā, a Mahathir Mohamad, i Hune 1979, ka whakaurua he ture hei whakamana i te pirihimana me te ope moana ki te pupuhi i ngā rerenga e ngana ana ki te taunga. Ko te rangatira o Mahathir, ko te Pirimia a Hussein Onn i tere te whakahoki i te whakawehi a Mahathir ki te pupuhi.