|
Sandakan Division
Sandakan Division () is an administrative division of Sabah, Malaysia. It stretches diagonally from the northeastern coast of Sabah to the state's central region. With an area of 28,205 square kilometres, it occupies 38.3% of Sabah's territory, and is thus the largest of the five administrative divisions of Sabah. It also has approximately 19.4% of Sabah's total population, with the major inhabitants comprising the Chinese, Orang Sungai, Kadazan-Dusun, Suluk and Bajau Simunul. The main towns are Sandakan, Beluran, Kinabatangan, Telupid and Tongod. Sandakan port is the second largest after Kota Kinabalu. The port serves as a major timber export gateway. The Sandakan Airport serves the Sandakan division. Districts Sandakan Division is subdivided into the following administrative districts: * Beluran District (8,345 km2) ( Beluran Town) * Kinabatangan District (8,000 km2) ( Kinabatangan Town) * Sandakan District (2,266 km2) ( Sandakan City) * Telupid Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandakan District
The Sandakan District () is an administrative district in the Malaysian state of Sabah, part of the Sandakan Division which includes the districts of Beluran, Kinabatangan, Sandakan, Telupid, and Tongod. The capital of the district is in Sandakan City. There are three members of parliament (MPs) representing the three parliamentary constituencies in the district: Libaran (''P.184''), Batu Sapi (''P.185''), and Sandakan (''P.186''). Demographics Sandakan district is the third largest of Sabah's 25 districts, with 396,290 inhabitants after Kota Kinabalu and Tawau. Gallery File:Sandakan Sabah Sim-Sim-CityMosque-01.jpg, Sandakan District Mosque. File:Sandakan Sabah St-Michael-And-All-Angels-00.jpg, St. Michael's and All Angels Anglican Church. File:Sandakan Sabah Calvary-Charismatic-Church-03.jpg, Sandakan Calvary Charismatic Church. File:Sandakan Sabah Catholic-Church-St-Joseph-02.jpg, St. Joseph Catholic Church. File:Sandakan Sabah GerejaSeventhDayAdventist-01.jp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabungan Rakyat Sabah
Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS; ) is a Malaysia, Malaysian Parliamentary group, coalition of Sabah-based parties. It was established in 2020 and then registered in 2022 by former United Alliance of Sabah (GBS) and United Borneo Alliance (UBA) component parties operating solely in Sabah inspired by the formula of Sarawak-based coalition, Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS). History Foundation On 12 September 2020, Hajiji Noor established an informal alliance named Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) to compete against Shafie Apdal's ruling Warisan Plus coalition consisting of Sabah Heritage Party (WARISAN), the Democratic Action Party (DAP), Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), and the United Progressive Kinabalu Organisation (UPKO) during the 2020 Sabah state election. The GRS alliance consisted of Hajiji's Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia Sabah, Perikatan Nasional Sabah (PN) coalition, the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, and United Sabah Party, Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS). During the Sabah state election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khairul Firdaus Akbar Khan
Khairul Firdaus bin Akbar Khan (born 26 July 1983) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Deputy Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture in the Unity Government administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and Minister Tiong King Sing since December 2022 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Batu Sapi since November 2022. He is a direct member of the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) coalition. His proposal of turning Langkawi into a preferred tourism destination for Muslims has been controversial. Education He graduated from Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia with a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Electronics Commerce Management and Human Resource Management. Controversies and issues Turning Langkawi into a preferred tourism destination for Muslims On 24 June 2024, Khairul Firdaus made a speech in Parliament, proposing and claiming that his ministry would possibly turn and position Langkawi as a preferred tourism destination for Muslims, the adherents o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batu Sapi (federal Constituency)
Batu Sapi is a federal constituency in Sandakan Division (Sandakan District), Sabah, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat The Dewan Rakyat (; Jawi script, Jawi: ), is the lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Malaysia, Parliament which is the federal legislature of Malaysia. The chamber and its powers are established by Article 44 of the Constitu ... since 2004. The federal constituency was created in the 2003 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system. Demographics https://ge15.orientaldaily.com.my/seats/sabah/p History Polling districts According to the gazette issued on 31 October 2022, the Batu Sapi constituency has a total of 11 polling districts. Representation history State constituency Current state assembly members Local governments & postcodes Election results ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UMNO
The United Malays National Organisation ( abbrev: UMNO; , PEKEMBAR) is a conservative, Malay nationalist political party in Malaysia. As the oldest national political party in the country (since its inception in 1946), UMNO has been known as Malaysia's "Grand Old Party". UMNO is a founding and the principal dominant member of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, which taken along with its predecessor Alliance, had been the main governing party of Malaysia from the independence of Malaya in 1957 until its defeat in the 2018 general election. From 1957 to 2018, every Prime Minister of Malaysia was also the President of UMNO. It has since returned to power twice as a result of the 2020-2022 Malaysian political crisis, firstly as a partner in a Perikatan Nasional-led government and subsequently as the leading party in a BN-led government with UMNO Vice President Ismail Sabri Yaakob serving as Prime Minister. A race-focused party, UMNO's goals are to uphold the aspiratio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barisan Nasional
Barisan Nasional (BN; ) is a political coalition of Malaysia that was founded in 1974 as a coalition of centre-right and right-wing political parties to succeed the Alliance Party. It is the third largest political coalition with 30 seats in the Dewan Rakyat after Pakatan Harapan (PH) with 82 seats and Perikatan Nasional (PN) with 74 seats. The coalition consists of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC), and United Sabah People's Party (PBRS). The Barisan Nasional coalition employs the same inter-communal governing model of its predecessor the Alliance Party but on a wider scale, with up to 14 communal political parties involved in the coalition at one point. It dominated Malaysian politics for over thirty years after it was founded. Taken together with its predecessor Alliance, it had a combined period of rule of almost 61 years from 1957 to 2018, and was considered the longest ruling coalition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suhaimi Nasir
Datuk Suhaimi bin Nasir (born 9 October 1969) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Libaran since November 2022 and a Nominated Member of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) since October 2020. He is a member, State Information Chief and the Division Chief of Libaran of the United Malays National Organisation of Sabah (Sabah UMNO), a branch of a component party of the Barisan Nasional Barisan Nasional (BN; ) is a political coalition of Malaysia that was founded in 1974 as a coalition of centre-right and right-wing political parties to succeed the Alliance Party. It is the third largest political coalition with 30 seats in ... (BN) coalition. Election results Honours * : ** Recipient of the 17th Yang di-Pertuan Agong Installation Medal * : ** Commander of the Order of Kinabalu (PGDK) – Datuk (2021) ** Member of the Order of Kinabalu (ADK) (2012) ** Grand Star of the Order of Kinabalu (BSK) (2010) Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Libaran
Libaran is a federal constituency in Sandakan Division (Sandakan District), Sabah, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat The Dewan Rakyat (; Jawi script, Jawi: ), is the lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Malaysia, Parliament which is the federal legislature of Malaysia. The chamber and its powers are established by Article 44 of the Constitu ... since 1995. The federal constituency was created in the 1994 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system. Demographics https://ge15.orientaldaily.com.my/seats/sabah/p History Polling districts According to the gazette issued on 31 October, the Libaran constituency has a total of 25 polling districts. Representation history State constituency Current state assembly members Local governments & postcodes Election results ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BERSATU
The Malaysian United Indigenous Party (Malay language, Malay: ''Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia''; Abbreviation, abbrev: BERSATU or PPBM) is a nationalist political party in Malaysia. The party was preceded by the United Indigenous Association of Malaysia (Malay language, Malay: ) and founded by members of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) rebel group ''Gabungan Ketua Cawangan Malaysia.'' It is a major component of the Perikatan Nasional coalition. Full membership in the party is limited to only Bumiputera (Malaysia), Bumiputeras (indigenous communities of Malaysia). Non-Bumiputeras can join the party as associate members, who are not eligible to vote and contest party elections. Following the 2022 Malaysian general election, BERSATU has lost heavily in 4 consecutive by-elections, 2023 Pulai by-election, Pulai, 2024 Kuala Kubu Baharu by-election, Kuala Kubu Baharu, 2024 Nenggiri by-election, Nenggiri and 2024 Mahkota by-election, Mahkota, leading to deep doubts ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perikatan Nasional
Perikatan Nasional (PN; ) is a Malaysian Parliamentary group, political coalition consisting of Right-wing politics, right-wing and Far-right politics, far-right political parties. It is the second largest political coalition in Dewan Rakyat with 74 seats after Pakatan Harapan (PH) with 81 seats. Previously known as the Persatuan Perikatan Parti Malaysia (PPPM; ). The coalition consists of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU), Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (GERAKAN) and Malaysian Indian People's Party (MIPP). Perikatan Nasional was formed early in the 2020–22 Malaysian political crisis#29 February, 2020 Malaysian political crisis with the intention to replace the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government. The 16th Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Abdullah of Pahang, appointed Muhyiddin Yassin, then the de facto leader of PN, as the 8th Prime Minister of Malaysia, bringing the informal political coalition into government. The coalition was in a coalitio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Kiandee
Ronald Kiandee (born 10 January 1961) is a Malaysian politician. A member of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU) and its Vice President since August 2020 and 2nd State Chairman of Sabah since December 2022, he has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Beluran since November 1999. He served as Minister of Agriculture and Food Industries in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) administration under former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin from March 2020 to the collapse of the PN administration in August 2021. He was reappointed to the same post for a second term in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under former Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob from August 2021 until the dissolution of the BN government in November 2022, when BN lost its reelection campaign in the 2022 general election. Prior to serving in the Cabinet, Kiandee was the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration from 2018 to 2019 and Deputy Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
