The Alor Setar City Council (, abbreviated MBAS) is the

city council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, borough counc ...

which administers the city of

Alor Setar Alor Setar ( Kedah Malay: ) is the state capital of Kedah, Malaysia. It is the second-largest city in the state after Sungai Petani and one of the most-important cities on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia. It is home to the third-tallest ...

in the state of

Kedah Kedah (), also known by its honorific Darul Aman (Islam), Aman (دار الأمان; Arabic for 'The Safe Abode') and historically as Queda, is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia, located in the northwestern part of ...

Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

. This council was established after the city was officially granted city status on 21 December 2003. Their jurisdiction covers an area of 333 square kilometres and administrates the whole Kota Setar District (where the Alor Setar city centre is located) and

Pokok Sena District The Pokok Sena District is a district and Pokok Sena (federal constituency), parliamentary constituency in Kedah, Malaysia. It is the 12th district of Kedah which was formerly a subdistrict of Kota Setar, about 20 km east of Alor Setar. The ...

in Kedah. The council consists of the mayor plus twenty-four councillors appointed to serve a one-year term by the Kedah State Government. It also has offices within Menara MBAS, the tallest building in the city.

Office

MBAS Tower, formerly known as Holiday Villa Alor Setar is a 22-story, 106.1-meter-tall government office building in

. It is

's tallest building. It serves as the offices of the Alor Setar City Council. It is located in the Alor Setar's central business district.

History

Alor Star Sanitary Board was established in 1905. It changed into Alor Star Municipal Board in 1958 and then was upgraded to Kota Setar District Council on 1 March 1976, once again upgraded to Kota Setar Municipal Council on 1 February 1978 and eventually declared as Alor Star City Council on 28 November 2003. Approaching Alor Star beginning as a “City” in the month of December 2003, complete its age of 268 years since it was established on 31 December 1735. With this, it is proved that Alor Star City is one of the oldest town in the Southeast Asian region.

Appointed mayors of Alor Setar

Since 2003, the city has been led by five mayors. The previous mayors are listed as below:

Current appointed councillors

# Fouzi Ali # Rohaizad Rashid # Norizan Khazali # Mokhtar Hasran # Robi Desa # Abd Jalil Abdul Majid # Rozi Jidin # Ishak Hussain # Ahmad Fitri Othman # Mohd Fuad Mohd Isa # Varatharajoo Krishnan # Muniandy Ramaya # Teoh Boon Teong # Cheah Kee Chong # Zakaria Nayan # Abdul Muthalib Harun # Mohd Guntor Mansor Tobeng # Abdul Kadir Mohamad # Lee Seong Joo # Mohamad Abdullah # Mohd Kholib Hamid # Salmah Mt. Isa

External links

* {{Local governments in Malaysia Alor Setar Local government in Kedah City councils in Malaysia 2003 establishments in Malaysia