Abstact-In Malaysia (Know as Malaya or Federation of Malay states before 1963), Malay people can be considered as indigenous. Malaya had been colonized fore more than 400 years since the colonization of Portuguese in 1511. At one time, some of the scholars especially the colonials described Malay as lazy people or not progressive. But most of the things changed once Malaya achieved independence in 1957 and those achievement were associated with nationalism. Apart from nationalism, transformation of Malay society was one of critical factors that led to Malaya independence in 1957. It was hard to gain independence if Malay society especially during the early period of pre-independece did not transform from native that considered lazy and came from poor family as pictured by foreign researcher and scholars to an active and vocal community. But what were the factors that contributed towards the transformation of Malay society. Thus in this paper, the researcher found the early process of transformation that happened to Malay society until 1941. At the same time, this paper discovered the importance of newspapers those days especially Al-Imam which was published from1906 to 1908 in shifting the people’s paradigm towards Malay transformation. This research also discovered “who’s who” related to Al-Imam that the writer feels had contributed to the development of early newpapers in Malaysia. “Product” of transformation amongst Malay also discussed in this research especially prominent personalities in journalism and radicals. Factors led to the emergence of those kinds of personalities including education also included in this paper. Keyword: Al-Imam, Nationalism, Malay Society