Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man

Malaysian politician, lecturer and teacher From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Tuan Ibharim bin Tuan Man[1] (Jawi: توان إبراهيم بن توان من; born 27 August 1960) is a Malaysian politician, lecturer and teacher who has served as the State Leader of the Opposition of Pahang since December 2022,[2] Member of Parliament (MP) for Kubang Kerian since May 2018 and Member of the Pahang State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Cheka since November 2022. He served as the Minister of Environment and Water for the second term in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under former Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob from August 2021 to the collapse of the BN administration in November 2022 and the first term 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 as well as the MLA for Jengka from November 1999 to March 2004. He is a member of the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), a component party of PN coalition. He has also served as the Deputy President of PAS since June 2015.

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Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man
توان إبراهيم توان من
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State Leader of the Opposition of Pahang
Assumed office
6 December 2022
MonarchAbdullah
Menteri BesarWan Rosdy Wan Ismail
Preceded byLee Chin Chen
ConstituencyCheka
Minister of Environment and Water
In office
30 August 2021  24 November 2022
MonarchAbdullah
Prime MinisterIsmail Sabri Yaakob
DeputyMansor Othman
Preceded byHimself
Succeeded byNik Nazmi
(Minister of Natural Resources, Environment and Climate Change)
ConstituencyKubang Kerian
In office
10 March 2020  16 August 2021
MonarchAbdullah
Prime MinisterMuhyiddin Yassin
DeputyAhmad Masrizal Muhammad
Preceded byYeo Bee Yin
(Minister of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change)
Xavier Jayakumar Arulanandam
(Minister of Water, Land and Natural Resources)
Succeeded byHimself
ConstituencyKubang Kerian
Deputy President of the Malaysian Islamic Party
Assumed office
4 June 2015
PresidentAbdul Hadi Awang
Spiritual LeaderHaron Din
(2015–2016)
Hashim Jasin
(since 2016)
Preceded byMohamad Sabu
Member of the Malaysian Parliament
for Kubang Kerian
Assumed office
9 May 2018
Preceded byAhmad Baihaki Atiqullah (PAS)
Majority19,369 (2018)
40,847 (2022)
Member of the Pahang State Legislative Assembly
for Cheka
Assumed office
19 November 2022
Preceded byLee Ah Wong
(BNMCA)
Majority1,223 (2022)
Member of the Pahang State Legislative Assembly
for Jengka
In office
29 November 1999  21 March 2004
Preceded byZainal Abidin Hassan
(BN–UMNO)
Succeeded byAbd Rahman Ibrahim
(BN–UMNO)
Majority1,714 (1999)
Personal details
Born
Tuan Ibharim bin Tuan Man

(1960-08-27) 27 August 1960 (age 64)
Kampung Batu Balai, Jerantut, Pahang, Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia)
Political partyMalaysian Islamic Party (PAS)
Other political
affiliations
Angkatan Perpaduan Ummah (APU)
(1990–1996)
Barisan Alternatif (BA)
(1999–2004)
Pakatan Rakyat (PR)
(2008–2015)
Gagasan Sejahtera (GS)
(2016–2020)
Perikatan Nasional (PN)
(since 2020)
SpouseNorrul Ain Md Hashim
RelationsNik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat (uncle)
Alma materNational University of Malaysia (BA, MA)
OccupationPolitician
Profession
Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man on Parliament of Malaysia
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Early life

Tuan Ibrahim was born on 27 August 1960 in Kampung Batu Balai, Jerantut, Pahang to ethnic Kelantanese Malay parents. He then furthered his undergraduate studies at the National University of Malaysia and received a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) Degree in Leadership. He later went on to study his postgraduate studies at the same university and graduated in 1995. His undergraduate thesis is entitled Travel Implications for Muslims - A Study in Tioman Island. He emphasized the three benefits of his research, in terms of land, in terms of benefit to the people and in terms of Islamic morality. He has served as a teacher at Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Clifford in Kuala Lipis and served as a senior lecturer for 14 years at the University of Technology MARA (UiTM) in Jengka, Pahang and Manjung, Perak.[3]

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Political career

Tuan Ibrahim is an alim (Islamic religious scholar).[4] He contested and won the Pahang State Legislative Assembly seat of Jengka in the 1999 election.[5] However, in the 2004 election, he was unseated amid a nationwide swing to the Barisan Nasional coalition.[6] He tried to reclaim the seat in the 2008 and 2013 elections, but lost on each occasion to a Barisan Nasional candidate.[7][8] In 2013 he became a vice-president of PAS, defeating Mahfuz Omar in an election at the party's annual general assembly.[4] He has been the head of the party in the state of Pahang since 2004.[9]

In 2018, Tuan Ibrahim was elected as MP of Kubang Kerian constituency in the 14th Malaysian general election.[10]

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Controversies

In April 2021, the media report titled Malaysia is not impacted by climate change, says the minister, in which Tuan Ibrahim is the Minister of Environment and Water, has caused anger online.[11] Tuan Ibrahim said that the headline is misleading and clarified Malaysia is not invited to the Leaders Summit on Climate in the United States because it is not classified as a country that is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.[12]

In November 2021, Tuan Ibrahim made the local headlines when he delivered his speech in Malay during the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow. Some criticized him with the assumptions that he was not able to speak English fluently while others including politician from the opposition block coming to his defense and praised him for dignifying the national language.[13]

Tuan Ibrahim also supports polygamy, calling for men who marry more than one woman to be given moral support as the solution for late marriages.[14]

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Election results

More information Year, Constituency ...
Parliament of Malaysia[15][16][17]
Year Constituency Candidate Votes Pct Opponent(s) Votes Pct Ballots cast Majority Turnout
2004 P086 Maran Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man (PAS) 8,483 35.04% Ismail Abdul Muttalib (UMNO) 15,725 64.96% 24,910 7,242 78.19%
2018 P024 Kubang Kerian Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man (PAS) 35,620 56.16% Muhammad Abdul Ghani (UMNO) 16,251 25.62% 84,867 19,369 79.09%
Abdul Halim Yusof (AMANAH) 11,557 18.22%
2022 Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man (PAS) 55,654 68.38% Nurul Amal Mohd Fauzi (UMNO) 14,807 18.19% 81,384 40,847 71.62%
Wan Ahmad Kamil Wan Abdullah (AMANAH) 10,236 12.58%
Mohd Rizal Razali (PEJUANG) 687 0.84%
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More information Year, Constituency ...
Pahang State Legislative Assembly[18][15][19]
Year Constituency Candidate Votes Pct Opponent(s) Votes Pct Ballots cast Majority Turnout
1999 N23 Jengka Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man (PAS) 5,338 50.47% Zainal Hassan (UMNO) 5,019 47.46% 10,576 319 83.24%
2004 N29 Jengka Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man (PAS) 5,532 42.74% Abd Rahman Ibrahim (UMNO) 8,320 64.28% 12,943 1,714 82.82%
2008 Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man (PAS) 6,858 47.34% Wan Salman Wan Ismail (UMNO) 7,454 51.45% 14,487 596 82.55%
2013 Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man (PAS) 9,150 46.00% Wan Salman Wan Ismail (UMNO) 10,453 52.55% 19,890 1,303 88.50%
2022 N04 Cheka Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man (PAS) 5,634 45.51% Ho Fong Mee (MCA) 4,411 35.63% 12,381 1,223 73.60%
Rasid Muhamad (PKR) 2,255 18.21%
Aishaton Abu Bakar (PEJUANG) 81 0.65%
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References

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