I don't know if a Malaysian will ever be represented in Street Fighter. But just because he does silat, doesn't mean he has to be a Jebat/Tuah like character. He/she can be a modern person, who happens to be using Silat.

Don't see why projectiles are out of the question, it can represent batin energy projectiles I guess. Kinda like how hadoukens are ki projectiles.

In my mind, the character can be a guy/girl with a representative costume of Silat (like Ryu, Ken etc), basically a black gi, with a sampin. He might have a military background, in which case we could give him a military outfit (Rolento, Bison). With one outfit as original, the other one can be the alternate outfit.

Some moves I can think of:

1. Some sort of projectile
- Normal hadouken style (which may be boring)
- Some new style projectile (he points his keris, and a ball of energy appears instantly in one of three areas (like Kairi in Street Fighter EX2) depending on which punch button pressed

2. Teleport move
- Character can kiss the keris or do some action, then teleport like Akuma, or instant like Dhalsim

If not a shoto-like character, he could be an aikido style joints lock expert. A silat character with various throws and stuns (might make an interesting change from Abel and Alex, who are kind of generic to me).

Feel free to criticise or add to any of the above, they're just ideas, but also lets really discuss this cos I think it's actually quite an interesting topic.