Malaysian Islamic Party

The Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS; Malay: Parti Islam Se-Malaysia) is an Islamist political party in Malaysia. PAS's electoral base is in Peninsular Malaysia's rural and conservative north and east coast.

Malaysian Islamic Party
Malay nameParti Islam Se-Malaysia
ڤرتي اسلام سمليسيا
AbbreviationPAS
PresidentAbdul Hadi Awang
Secretary-GeneralTakiyuddin Hassan
SpokespersonKamaruzaman Mohamad
Spiritual LeaderHashim Jasin
Deputy President

Vice-President
Tuan Ibrahim

1. Idris Ahmad
2. Mohd Amar Abdullah
3. Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar
Dewan Ulamak's ChiefNik Muhammad Zawawi Salleh
Dewan Muslimat's ChiefNuridah Mohd Salleh
Dewan Pemuda's ChiefKhairil Nizam Khirudin
FounderAhmad Fuad Hassan
Founded24 November 1951 (as Malayan Islamic Organisation)
Legalised31 May 1955
Split fromUnited Malays National Organisation (UMNO)
HeadquartersNo. 318-A, Jalan Raja Laut, 50350 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
NewspaperHarakah
Think tankPusat Penyelidikan PAS Pusat
Youth wingDewan Pemuda PAS
Women's wingDewan Muslimat PAS
Cleric's wingDewan Ulamak PAS
Non-Muslim's wingDewan Himpunan Penyokong PAS
IdeologyIslamism
Conservatism[1]
Islamic conservatism
Political positionRight-wing[2] to far-right[3][4]
National affiliationAlliance (1972–73)
Barisan Nasional (1973–78)
Angkatan Perpaduan Ummah (1990–96)
Barisan Alternatif (1999–2004)
Pakatan Rakyat (2008–2015)
Gagasan Sejahtera (since 2016)
Muafakat Nasional (since 2019)
Perikatan Nasional (since 2020)
Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (since 2020)
International affiliationMuslim Brotherhood (Ikhwanul Muslimin)[5][6]
Colours  Green and White
SloganBeristiqamah Hingga Kemenangan
Ketuanan Melayu
Islam Memimpin
AnthemBerjihadlah
Dewan Negara:
8 / 70
Dewan Rakyat:
18 / 222
Dewan Undangan Negeri:
92 / 607
Chief minister of states
3 / 13
Election symbol
Party flag
Website
www.pas.org.my

The party is currently a member party of the Perikatan Nasional, a loose coalition of the governing party of Malaysia. The party governs the states of Kelantan (1959–1977 and 1990–present), Terengganu (1959–1962, 1999–2004 and 2018–present), Kedah (2008–2013, 2020–present) and as governing coalition partners in Johor (2020–present) and Perak (2008–2009, 2020–present). In the past, it was a coalition partner in the governments in Penang (2008–2015) and Selangor (2008–2018). The party currently holds 18 of the 222 seats in the federal House of Representatives and has elected parliamentarians or state assembly members in eight of the country's 13 states.

Background

The party was founded in 1951 by Muslim clerics in the United Malays National Organisation. In the party's early decades, it fused Islamist and Malay nationalist ideologies and entrenched itself as one of the country's strongest opposition parties. From 1974 to 1978, PAS joined the governing Barisan Nasional coalition, but has otherwise been in opposition at the federal level for the entirety of its history. The 1980s saw the party taken over by a group of Muslim clerics ("ulama"), who shifted the party's ideology away from Malay nationalism towards a more focus on Islamic teachings. After poor electoral performances, the party moderated in the 1990s, with an increase in progressive leaders. In the 2015 PAS Muktamar, the Ulama wing called for a total out of progressives,[7] following which the progressive leaders lost almost all party positions.[8] The progressive faction later formed Parti Amanah Negara and with the two main Malaysian opposition parties, PKR, DAP formed Pakatan Harapan.

PAS's electoral base is in Malaysia's rural and conservative north. It currently holds 18 of the 222 seats in the federal House of Representatives and has elected parliamentarians or state assembly members in eight of the country's 13 states.

The President is the party's chief office-holder. Abdul Hadi Awang has occupied the post since 2002. Under the President sits a Deputy President and three Vice-Presidents. There are two standing decision-making bodies of the party: the elected Central Working Committee, which deals with administrative and political affairs, and the Syura Council, composed of clerics, which deals with religious matters. The party has formal branches for women members ("PAS Muslimat") and youth ("PAS Pemuda"). Harakah is the party's official newspaper.

History

Origins: post-World War II Islamist movements

The post-World War II period, while Malaya was still under British colonial rule, saw the emergence of the country's first formal Islamic political movements. The Malay Nationalist Party, a left-wing nationalist organisation, was formed in 1945 and led by Burhanuddin al-Helmy, who would later become the president of PAS. Out of the MNP arose the Pan-Malayan Supreme Islamic Council in 1947, and MATA in turn formed the party Hizbul Muslimin (Muslim People's Party of Malaya) in 1948. The central aim of Hizbul Muslimin was the establishment of an independent Malaya as an Islamic state.[9] However, the party did not live beyond 1948. The Malayan Emergency of that year, while a British–Communist dispute, saw the colonial administration arrest a number of the party's leaders, and the nascent group disbanded. Nevertheless, the party served as a forerunner to PAS, supplying both the ideology upon which PAS was formed and some of PAS's key leaders in its early years.[10]

Party formation (1953–1956)

PAS was founded on 24 November 1951, as the Persatuan Islam Se-Malaya (Malayan Islamic Organisation). The formation of the party was the culmination of a growing movement among Muslim clerics within the United Malays National Organisation to formalise a discrete Islamic political organisation. However, at first, the lines between UMNO and the new party were blurred. PAS allowed dual membership of the two parties, and many of its early senior leaders were also UMNO members. The party's first president was Ahmad Fuad Hassan, an UMNO cleric. He lasted in the position only until 1953, when he fell out of favour with the party, which was now developing a more distinct identity, and returned to the UMNO fold. Fuad's departure coincided with the end of dual membership.[11] The party turned to Abbas Alias, a Western-educated medical doctor, as its second president, although he did not play an active role in the party and was little more than a nominal figurehead.[12]

The party's first electoral test was the pre-independence 1955 election to the Federal Legislative Council, the body that preceded the national parliament. 52 single-member seats were up for election; PAS fielded 11 candidates. Hampered by a lack of funds and party organisation, PAS succeeded in having only one candidate elected: Ahmad Tuan Hussein, a teacher at an Islamic school in Kerian, Perak. He was the only opposition member of the Council; the other 51 seats were won by members of the Alliance coalition between UMNO, the Malaysian Chinese Association and the Malaysian Indian Congress. PAS's performance in the election weakened its hand in negotiations with the British over the terms of Malayan independence. Its advocacy for the protection of Malay and Muslim rights, including the recognition of Islam as the country's official religion, was ignored. Alias stepped down from the presidency in 1956, handing it voluntarily to the radical nationalist Burhanuddin al-Helmy.[13] This change exemplified a broader trend among PAS's leadership in the late 1950s: the party's upper echelons gradually became filled with nationalists and long-time UMNO opponents, replacing the UMNO clerics who had initially led the party.[14]

Burhanuddin al-Helmy era (1956–1969)

Burhanuddin al-Helmy, a prominent anti-colonialist, steered PAS in a socialist and nationalist direction and set about strengthening the party's internal structure and geographic reach. In the 1959 election, Malaya's first since independence, the party's focus on rural constituencies, especially in the north, paid off. Thirteen PAS candidates were elected to the 104-member House of Representatives, and the party took control of the legislative assemblies of the northern states of Kelantan and Terengganu.[15][16]

However, Burhanuddin's leftist pas-Islamism, under which PAS sought greater ties between the Muslim peoples of Malaya and the Indonesian archipelago, soon led the party into a wedge. The Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation of 1963–66 turned popular Malayan opinion against Indonesia. PAS's attacks on Tunku Abdul Rahman's Alliance government for seeking Western assistance during the confrontation, and the party's continued support for Southeast Asian pas-Islamism, led to a loss of support in the 1964 election. The party's parliamentary cohort was reduced to nine.[17] The party became further marginalised the following year, when Burhanuddin was detained without trial under the Internal Security Act on allegations that he had collaborated with Indonesia.[18]

Political circumstances in the country had changed by the 1969 election. The Konfrontasi had ended, Burhanuddin had been released from custody although was too ill to campaign actively, and the Alliance coalition was suffering internal division and unpopularity. PAS's vote rose to over 20 percent of the national electorate, netting the party 12 seats in Parliament.[19] However, the Parliament would not convene until 1971. Race riots after the election caused Tunku Abdul Rahman to suspend Parliament and declare a state of emergency. The country would be run by a National Operations Council for the following two years. In the meantime, Burhanuddin died in October 1969 and was replaced as PAS's President by his deputy, Asri Muda.[20]

Asri Muda era (1970–1982)

Asri came to the presidency having been PAS's de facto leader during Burhanuddin's long illness.[21] But this did not mean a seamless transition for the party. While Burhanuddin had been sympathetic to left-wing causes and parties in Malaysia, Asri was first and foremost a Malay nationalist, and was hostile to leftist politics. One of his first acts as President of PAS was to part ways with the party's opposition allies on the left, such as the Malaysian People's Party. Ideologically, Asri's presidency would see the party shift markedly away from the pas-Islamism of Burhanuddin. The party became principally concerned with the protection and advancement of the rights of ethnic Malays.[22] The party's activities also became solely focused on party politics, as reflected in the change of its name in 1971 from the "Persatuan Islam Se-Malaysia" (Pan-Malaysian Islamic Association) to the "Parti Islam Se-Malaysia" (PAS-Malaysian Islamic Party).[23]

However, Asri's most radical change was still to come. In January 1972, he announced, after negotiations with UMNO, that PAS would be joining the Alliance coalition (which would soon rebadge itself as the Barisan Nasional). After two decades as an opposition party, PAS would now be in government, but as a junior partner of its main rival UMNO. The move was controversial within PAS, and some of its members and senior leaders either left the party or were purged by Asri. Asri's principal justification for joining UMNO in a coalition government was that after the 1969 race riots, Malay unity was paramount, and that this required a partnership between the country's two ethnic-Malay political parties. Asri himself became a minister in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Abdul Razak Hussein.[24]

The 1974 election saw PAS competing under the Barisan Nasional banner for the first and only time. The party won 14 parliamentary seats to UMNO's 62, cementing PAS's position as the junior of the coalition partners. PAS also found itself governing in coalition in Kelantan, which it had previously governed in its own right. PAS's vote in its northern strongholds was weakened by a loss of support to both its former opposition allies and renegade PAS candidates running on anti-Barisan Nasional tickets.[25] Ultimately, it was Kelantan, Asri's home state and the base of political power, that would trigger the downfall of the UMNO–PAS partnership. After a conflict between Asri and the UMNO-favoured chief minister of the state, Mohamad Nasir, over investigations that Nasir initiated into Asri's financial dealings, Asri mobilised the PAS members of the Kelantan State Legislative Assembly to move a no-confidence motion against Nasir. The UMNO assemblymen staged a walk-out, abandoning Asri, driving an irreparable wedge through the coalition and causing a political crisis in the state. The Prime Minister Hussein Onn declared an emergency in the state, allowing the federal government to take control. Asri withdrew PAS from Barisan Nasional in December 1977.[26]

The 1978 election underscored how disastrous PAS's foray into the Barisan Nasional had been. The party was reduced to five parliamentary seats and, in separate state-level elections in Kelantan, was routed by UMNO and the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Front (Berjasa), which Nasir had founded after leaving PAS. The party's fortunes in the Kelantan election were not helped by a ban on public election rallies; while the Barisan Nasional was able to campaign through a compliant mass media, public talks were the principal way in which PAS could reach voters.[27] PAS fared little better in the 1982 election. In the face of a new prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, and the decision of the popular Islamist youth leader Anwar Ibrahim to join UMNO instead of PAS, the party was unable to improve on its five parliamentary seats and failed to regain government in Kelantan. Meanwhile, the 1978 to 1982 period coincided with the rise of a new generation of leaders within the party, including foreign-educated Muslim clerics (or "ulama") such as Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat and Abdul Hadi Awang. This group sought to reorient PAS as an Islamist party and were fundamentally hostile to UMNO, whose Malay nationalist focus they saw to be at the expense of Islam.[28] In 1980 the group succeeded in electing Yusof Rawa to the deputy presidency of the party, ousting the Asri loyalist Abu Bakar Omar.[29] By the time of PAS's 1982 assembly, it was clear to Asri that the ulama faction had the numbers to defeat him. He resigned on the floor of the assembly, and subsequently attacked the party through the media, leading to his expulsion. The following year, Yusof was elevated to the presidency, unopposed.[30]

Ulama takeover (1982–1989)

The ulama who took over PAS in 1982 drew from the 1979 Iranian revolution for inspiration in establishing an Islamic state; Yusof Rawa himself had served as Malaysia's Ambassador to Iran in the years preceding the revolution. Yusof openly rejected the Malay nationalism that characterised both UMNO and PAS under Asri Muda, considering it a narrow and ignorant philosophy that was contrary to the concept of a Muslim ummah.[31] As if to exemplify the shift in the party's ideological outlook under Yusof and his ulama colleagues, the party's new leaders adopted a more conservative and religious form of dress, abandoning Malay and western clothing for traditional Arab religious garb.[32] Politics between UMNO and PAS became increasingly religious in nature. The Barisan Nasional government tried to counter the possible electoral appeal of PAS's Islamisation by creating a number of state-run Islamic institutions, such as the International Islamic University of Malaysia. PAS leaders responded by labelling such initiatives as superficial and hypocritical, UMNO leaders as "infidels" and UMNO as the "party of the devil".[33]

The increasingly divisive rhetoric between UMNO and PAS produced deep divisions in Malay communities, especially in the northern states. Sometimes the divisions became violent, the most infamous example being the 1985 Memali incident, in which the government sanctioned a raid on a village led by the PAS cleric Ibrahim Libya, which left 14 civilians and four policemen dead.[34] It was against this backdrop that the PAS ulama faced their first general election in 1986. The result was a whitewash for the Barisan Nasional coalition. PAS recorded its worst-ever election result, retaining only one seat in Parliament. PAS, in recovering from the defeat, had no choice but to retreat from its hardline Islamism and pursue a moderate course.[35] By 1989, Yusof had become too ill to remain as PAS's President, and was replaced by his deputy, Fadzil Noor, another member of the ulama faction that now dominated the party.[36]

Electoral revival in the 1990s

Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat became the Menteri Besar (Chief Minister) of Kelantan in 1990, and remained in the post for 23 years.

While not abandoning PAS's ideological commitment to the establishment of an Islamic state, Fadzil Noor moderated the party's rhetoric. He also set about infusing the party's membership with young urban professionals in an attempt to diversify the leadership ranks beyond religious clerics.[21] The 1990s also saw PAS engage in international Islamist movements. Abdul Hadi Awang became active in a number of international Islamic organisations and delegations, and Islamist parties abroad sent delegations to Malaysia to observe PAS.[37]

The first electoral test of Fadzil's presidency was the 1990 election, which occurred against the backdrop of a split in UMNO out of which the Semangat 46 opposition party was formed. PAS joined Semangat 46 and two other Malay parties in the United Ummah Front ("Angkatan Perpaduan Ummah"), and won seven parliamentary seats. The new coalition swept the Barisan Nasional from power in Kelantan, winning all of its state assembly seats. Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, a cleric who played a leading role in the 1982 takeover of the party, became Kelantan's Chief Minister, and would remain in the position until his retirement in 2013.[38] One of the first acts of the PAS-led government in Kelantan was to seek to introduce hudud, a criminal punishment system for particular Islamic offences. The move was abandoned after it became clear that the law could not be enforced over the objections of the federal government.[39]

PAS retained its seven parliamentary seats and the government of Kelantan in the 1995 election while all other opposition parties lost ground.[40] By the time of the next election, in 1999, circumstances external to PAS had changed its fortunes for the better. The 1997 Asian financial crisis split the Barisan Nasional government between supporters of the Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad, and his deputy, Anwar Ibrahim. Mahathir's sacking of Anwar in 1998 provoked widespread opposition, which PAS capitalised on more than any other opposition party. The party ran a sophisticated campaign for the 1999 election, taking advantage of the internet to bypass restrictions on print publications and managing to woo urban professional voters while retaining its traditional rural support base. For the first time, PAS joined the centre-left and secular Democratic Action Party in a coalition—the Barisan Alternatif—which also included Anwar Ibrahim's new party Keadilan. The result was PAS's best ever. The party took 27 of 192 parliamentary seats and had landslide state-level victories in Kelantan and Terengganu.[41]

PAS in the Pakatan Rakyat

The death of Fadzil Noor in 2002, and his replacement by the conservative cleric Abdul Hadi Awang, coincided with a period of division within the party between its younger and professional leaders, who sought to make PAS's Islamist ideology more appealing to mainstream Malaysia, and its conservative, and generally older, clerics. The party was unable to reconcile the views of the two factions with a coherent definition of the "Islamic state" that the party's platform envisioned.[21] The debate itself caused the DAP to break with the Barisan Alternatif coalition; as a secular party with mainly an ethnic Chinese support base, it could not support the vision of an Islamic state propagated by PAS's conservatives. PAS also found itself losing Malay support following the replacement of Mahathir as Prime Minister with Abdullah Badawi, a popular and moderate Muslim, and post-11 September fears among the electorate about radical Islam in Southeast Asia.[42] If the 1999 election had been the party's zenith, the 2004 poll was one of the lowest points in its history. In an expanded Parliament, PAS was reduced to seven seats. Abdul Hadi not only lost his parliamentary seat but saw the government he led in Terengganu thrown from office after one term.[43]

The response of PAS to the 2004 election, like its response to the similar 1986 wipeout, was to abandon the hardline image that had contributed to its defeat. By now, the urban professional wing of the party's membership, brought into the party by Fadzil Noor in the 1990s, was ready to take charge. While Abdul Hadi's presidency was not under threat, the moderate faction, known as the "Erdogans" after the moderate Turkish Islamist leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had its members voted into other key positions in the party's 2005 general assembly.[21][44] PAS was now able to attack Abdullah Badawi's government from both the right and the left: on the one hand, it criticised Abdullah's promotion of Islam Hadhari as a watered-down version of Islam; on the other, it attacked the government for its human rights record and promoted the causes of social and economic justice, including for non-Muslims. The party also capitalised on the growth of the internet and social media in Malaysia to bypass the pro-government mass media.[45]

Ahead of the 2008 election PAS joined the DAP and Anwar Ibrahim's People's Justice Party (PKR) in a new coalition, the Pakatan Rakyat. The coalition handed the Barisan Nasional its worst-ever election result. Barisan Nasional lost its two-thirds majority in the House of Representatives, disabling it from passing constitutional amendments without opposition support. PAS won 23 seats; the Pakatan Rakyat won 82. At a state level, decades-old Barisan Nasional governments fell in Kedah, Perak and Selangor. PAS now governed Kedah and Kelantan (led respectively by Azizan Abdul Razak and Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat) and supplied the Chief Minister of Perak (Nizar Jamaluddin) in a Pakatan Rakyat coalition government.[46]

PAS's 2009 general assembly saw latent fissures within the party come out into the open. The incumbent deputy president Nasharudin Mat Isa, a Malay nationalist who promoted greater co-operation between PAS and UMNO, was challenged by two moderate candidates.[47] Nasharudin survived with the backing of the conservative ulama faction; his two opponents had split the moderate vote. But at the 2011 assembly, Nasharudin was not so lucky: Mohamad Sabu, a leading moderate close to Anwar Ibrahim, commanded the support of the "Erdogan" wing and toppled him. Sabu's election was a significant defeat for the ulama faction. He was the first non-cleric to serve as the party's deputy president in over 20 years.[48]

The Pakatan Rakyat coalition went into the 2013 election facing Najib Razak, who had replaced Abdullah as Prime Minister in 2009 but failed to improve the government's fortunes, especially among urban voters. PAS made a concerted effort to expand its voter base beyond the northern peninsula states, and campaigned heavily in Johor, where it had never won a parliamentary seat. The election witnessed a significant degree of cross-over ethnic voting: Chinese voters in Malay-majority seats decided in large numbers to support PAS, to maximise the chances of a national Pakatan Rakyat victory. Pakatan Rakyat won 50.8 percent of the national popular vote although fell short of forming government.[49] PAS, however, suffered a net loss of two parliamentary seats. This was principally attributable to a swing against the party in Kedah, where the party was removed from state government after one term and lost four parliamentary seats.[50]

Breakup with Pakatan Rakyat (2015)

When PAS saw its share of seats shrink in the 2013 election, it started to reassert its Islamic agenda.[51] DAP criticised its president Abdul Hadi Awang for pushing a bill on hudud without consulting his opposition partners. This incident led to the DAP announcing in March 2015 that it would no longer work with the PAS leader. The rift worsened after conservatives captured PAS leadership. The party accepted a motion by its conservative ulama wing to sever ties with DAP.[52] In response, DAP's Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng said that the PR no longer existed in June 2015.[53] PAS Youth chief Nik Mohamad Abduh Nik Abdul Aziz said the opposition alliance was still intact.[54]

Pas joined the Perikatan Nasional coalition (2019 - Present)

In September 2019, UMNO decided to form a pact with PAS called Muafakat Nasional. Its main purpose is to unite the Malay Muslim communities for electoral purposes.[55] There is however no formal agreement with the other parties of Barisan Nasional, although there are calls for Barisan Nasional to migrate to Muafakat Nasional.[56][57] Barisan Nasional continued to function as a separate coalition consisting of four parties comprising UMNO, MCA, MIC and PBRS, but aligned themselves with Perikatan Nasional to form a new government in March 2020 after the collapse of the Pakatan Harapan government.[58]

During the Tanjung Piai by-election, PAS vice-president Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah stated that PAS would support the candidate nominated by Barisan Nasional,[59] which was reaffirmed by PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang.[60]

On 23 February 2020, PAS held an extraordinary meeting Janda Baik, Pahang together with the UMNO during the 2020 Malaysian political crisis. PAS President Hadi Awang was among the entourage of then-opposition political leaders that visited the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to discuss the formation of a new government.[61]

On 25 February, UMNO and PAS revealed that they had withdrawn their prior support for Mahathir to continue as prime minister, and instead called for the dissolution of parliament.[62] It was previously reported that as all political factions voiced their support for Mahathir, he was intent on establishing a "unity government", which the two parties could not agree with.[63][64] Annuar Musa, UMNO's secretary-general, said the basis of negotiations with Mahathir was that UMNO and PAS would lend their support to form an alternative coalition without DAP. Therefore, both PAS and UMNO declared their support for a snap election instead.[65]

On 28 February, PAS then released a statement announcing their support for the BERSATU president, Muhyiddin Yassin as the 8th Prime Minister. Every Muafakat Nasional MPs had also signed statutory declarations supporting Muhyiddin to be the next Prime Minister.[66]

On 29 February, BERSATU President Muhyiddin Yassin and his allies including party leaders from UMNO, PAS, Gabungan Parti Sarawak, Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah, and Homeland Solidarity Party had an audience with the Agong to discuss the formation of a government.[67][68] He announced that his coalition consisting of BERSATU, UMNO, PAS, PBRS, GPS, and STAR will be called Perikatan Nasional.[69] The new coalition claimed that they have majority support in parliament to elect a Prime Minister and to form a government.[70]

In the Muhyiddin cabinet, which was formed on 10 March 2020, three PAS MPs became Ministers and five PAS MPs became Deputy Ministers.

Ideology and policies

Alternative flag of PAS, occasionally flown along the official full-moon-on-a-green-field flag

According to Farish A. Noor, a Malaysian academic who has written a complete history of PAS:

From the day PAS was formed, in November 1951, the long-term goal of creating an Islamic state in Malaysia has been the beacon that has driven successive generations of PAS leaders and members ever forward. What has changed is the meaning and content of the signifier 'Islamic state'[71]

From time to time, PAS's pursuit of an "Islamic state" has involved attempts to legislate for hudud—an Islamic criminal justice system—in the states that it governs.[72] Such laws would apply to all Muslims and would not apply to non-Muslims. PAS-dominated state assemblies in Kelantan and Terengganu passed hudud laws in the early 1990s and early 2000s respectively, although neither has ever been enforced due to opposition from the federal government.[73] PAS returned to its pursuit of hudud laws after the 2013 election, signalling that it would table bills in the federal Parliament to allow the laws, still on the statute books in Kelantan, to be enforced. The bills would require a two-thirds majority in the Parliament as they involve constitutional amendments.[74]

After PAS's electoral rout in 2004, the party sought to broaden its policies beyond Islamism. Among other things, the party focused on calling for improved civil liberties and race relations. However, these policy shifts have proven controversial within the party; conservatives have considered them part of a dilution of PAS's commitment to an Islamic state.[75][76]

When PAS was defeated in Terengganu, enforcement of female dress codes was reduced. The state PAS government in Kelantan bans traditional Malay dance theatres, banned advertisements depicting women who are not fully clothed, and enforced the wearing of headscarves, although they allowed gender segregated cinemas and concerts. Some government-controlled bodies pressure non-Muslims to also wear headscarves, and all students of the International Islamic University of Malaysia and female officers in the Royal Malaysian Police are required to wear headscarves in public ceremonies.[77]

The PAS party wishes that the death penalty be enacted for Muslims who attempt to convert, as part of their ultimate desire to turn Malaysia into an Islamic state.[78]

Ties and linkages with the Muslim Brotherhood

PAS has also maintained close personal and ideological ties with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.[5] The party's relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood dates back to the 1940s when PAS's founders were exposed to the ideas and teachings of the Muslim Brotherhood while they were studying in Cairo during the 1940s. According to Wan Saiful Wan Jan of the think tank Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs, the Muslim Brotherhood regards PAS as a model for a successful Muslim political party; since PAS has governed the state of Kelantan continually since 1990. PAS representatives are often invited to Muslim Brotherhood speaking engagements overseas. In 2012, PAS President Abdul Hadi Awang spoke alongside Muslim Brotherhood scholar Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi at a speaking event in London.[79] That same year, PAS representatives met with Muslim Brotherhood leaders Sheikh Mahdi Akif and Dr Muhammad Badie in Cairo.[6]

According to Müller, PAS's current generation of leaders, the Ulama Leadership (Kepimpinan Ulama) were also influenced by Muslim Brotherhood ideology while studying in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and India during the 1980s. Muslim Brotherhood–inspired Islamic education methods (tarbiyah) and regular study circles (usrah/halaqah) were systematically introduced while networks were established with Muslim political parties and movements abroad.[80] In April 2014, Awang criticised the governments of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates for designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation.[6] In January 2016, former PAS leader Mujahid Yusof Rawa claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood's influence on PAS was limited to sharing the organisation's views on the role of Islam in society. Rawa also claimed that other local Muslim groups such as Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (ABIM; Muslim Youth Movement of Malaysia) and IKRAM were also sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood.[81]

Structure and membership

PAS's general assembly ("Muktamar") elects the party's President, Deputy President, three Vice-Presidents and a multi-member Central Working Committee. The assembly is held annually, but elections occur only in every second year. The assembly is composed mainly of delegates elected by individual local divisions of the party.[82] The day-to-day administration of the party is carried out by its Secretary-General, a position appointed by the party's leadership.[83] The Central Working Committee is ostensibly the party's principal decision-making body, although its decisions are susceptible to being overturned by the Syura Council, an unelected body composed only of Muslim clerics and led by the party's Spiritual Leader ("Musyidul 'Am").[84] The relationship between the different administrative bodies within the party occasionally causes conflict. In 2014, the Central Working Committee voted to support the nomination of Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, the President of the People's Justice Party, to be the Chief Minister of the Pakatan Rakyat government in Selangor. Abdul Hadi Awang, as PAS's president and with the backing of the Syura Council, overturned the decision and nominated different candidates.[85]

The party has three recognised sub-organisations for different categories of party members: an ulama wing (the "Dewan Ulama") for Muslim clerics, a women's wing (the "Dewan Muslimat") and a youth wing (the "Dewan Pemuda"). Each wing elects its own leadership at its own general assembly.[85] There is a fourth wing for non-Muslim supporters of the party, although it does not have the same recognised position in the party's structure as the other three wings.[82]

PAS has approximately one million members,[86] more than any other opposition party in Malaysia.[87] PAS members often distinguish themselves from UMNO members through cultural and religious practices. For Islamic headwear, males who support PAS tend to prefer the white, soft kopiah, while UMNO supporters tend to wear the traditional Malay songkok, a rigid black cap.[88] Some areas of Malaysia host rival mosques catering for the members and supporters of each party.[89]

Current office bearers

List of Presidents

NameTerm of positionYears in position
Ahmad Fuad Hassan1951–19532 years
Abbas Alias1953–19563 years
Burhanuddin al-Helmy1956–196913 years
Asri Muda1969–198213 years
Yusof Rawa1982–19897 years
Fadzil Noor1989–200213 years
Abdul Hadi Awangsince 200218 years

Elected representatives

Senators

Members of Parliament of the 14th Malaysian Parliament

PAS has 18 members in the House of Representatives.

State No. Parliament Constituency Member Party
 KedahP011PendangAwang Solahudin HashimPAS
P012JeraiSabri AzitPAS
P013SikAhmad Tarmizi SulaimanPAS
 KelantanP019TumpatChe Abdullah Mat NawiPAS
P020Pengkalan ChepaAhmad Marzuk ShaaryPAS
P021Kota BharuTakiyuddin HassanPAS
P022Pasir MasAhmad Fadhli ShaariPAS
P023Rantau PanjangSiti Zailah Mohd YusoffPAS
P024Kubang KerianTuan Ibrahim Tuan ManPAS
P025BachokNik Mohamed Abduh Nik Abdul AzizPAS
P028Pasir PutehNik Muhammad Zawawi SallehPAS
P031Kuala KraiAbdul Latiff Abdul RahmanPAS
 TerengganuP034SetiuShaharizukirnain Abd. KadirPAS
P035Kuala NerusMohd. Khairuddin Aman RazaliPAS
P036Kuala TerengganuAhmad Amzad HashimPAS
P037MarangAbdul Hadi AwangPAS
P039DungunWan Hassan Mohd. RamliPAS
P040KemamanChe Alias HamidPAS
TotalKedah (3), Kelantan (9), Terengganu (6)

Malaysian State Assembly Representatives

PAS has 92 members of state legislative assemblies. It has representatives in every assembly other than those of Negeri Sembilan, Malacca, Sabah and Sarawak. The party holds a majority in the Kelantan and Terengganu State Legislative Assemblies, and supplies all the members of the state's Executive Council (a body akin to a Cabinet), led by Menteri Besar, Ahmad Yakob.[90]

State No. State Constituency Member Party
 PerlisN13Guar SanjiMohd Ridzuan HashimPAS
N15SanglangMohd Shukri RamliPAS
 KedahN4Ayer HitamAzhar IbrahimPAS
N7Kuala NerangMohamad Yusoff ZakariaPAS
N8PeduMohd Radzi Md AminPAS
N9Bukit LadaSalim MahmoodPAS
N10Bukit PinangRomaini Wan SalimPAS
N18TokaiMohd.Hayati OthmanPAS
N20Sungai LimauMohd.Azam Abd.SamatPAS
N23BelantekMad Isa ShafiePAS
N24JeneriMuhammad Sanusi Md NorPAS
N26Tanjong DawaiHanif GhazaliPAS
N27Pantai MerdekaAhmad Fadzli HashimPAS
N30BayuAbd Nasir IdrisPAS
N31KupangNajmi AhmadPAS
N32Kuala KetilMansor ZakariaPAS
N33Merbau PulasSiti Aishah GhazaliPAS
 KelantanN1Pengkalan KuborWan Roslan Wan MamatPAS
N2KelaboranMohd Adenan HassanPAS
N3Pasir PekanAhmad YakobPAS
N4Wakaf BharuMohd Rusli AbdullahPAS
N5KijangIzani HusinPAS
N6ChempakaAhmad Fathan MahmoodPAS
N7PanchorNik Mohd Amar Nik AbdullahPAS
N8Tanjong MasRohani IbrahimPAS
N9Kota LamaAnuar Tan Abdullah @ Tan Teng LoonPAS
N10Bunut PayongRamli MamatPAS
N11TendongRozi MuhamadPAS
N12Pengkalan PasirHanifa AhmadPAS
N13MerantiMohd Nassruddin DaudPAS
N14ChetokZuraidin AbdullahPAS
N15Gual PeriokMohamad AwangPAS
N16Apam PutraAbdul Rasul MohamedPAS
N17SalorSaiful Adli Abu BakarPAS
N18Pasir TumbohAbd Rahman YunusPAS
N19DemitMumtaz Md NawiPAS
N20TawangHassan MahmoodPAS
N21Pantai IramaMohd Huzaimy Che HusinPAS
N22JelawatAbdul Azziz KadirPAS
N23MelorMd Yusnan YusofPAS
N24KadokAzami Mohd NorPAS
N26Bukit PanauAbd Fattah MahmoodPAS
N28KemahangMd Anizam Ab RahmanPAS
N29SelinsingTuan Mohd Sharipudin Tuan IsmailPAS
N30LimbonganMohd Nazlan Mohamed HasbullahPAS
N31SemerakWan Hassan Wan IbrahimPAS
N32GaalMohd Rodzi Ja’afarPAS
N33Pulai ChondongAzhar SallehPAS
N34TemanganMohamed Fazli HassanPAS
N35KemuningMohd Roseli IsmailPAS
N39MengkebangMuhammad Mat SulaimanPAS
N40GuchilHilmi AbdullahPAS
N41Manek UraiMohd Fauzi AbdullahPAS
N42DabongKu Mohd Zaki Ku HussienPAS
 TerengganuN2Kota PuteraMohd Nurkhuzaini Ab RahmanPAS
N5JabiAzman IbrahimPAS
N9TepuhHishamuddin Abdul KarimPAS
N10Buloh GadingRidzuan HashimPAS
N12Bukit TunggalAlias RazakPAS
N13Wakaf MempelamWan Sukairi Wan AbdullahPAS
N14BandarAhmad Shah MuhamedPAS
N15LadangTengku Hassan Tengku OmarPAS
N16Batu BurukMuhammad Khalil Abdul HadiPAS
N17Alur LimbatAriffin DeramanPAS
N18Bukit PayungMohd Nor HamzahPAS
N19Ru RendangAhmad Samsuri MokhtarPAS
N20Pengkalan BeranganSulaiman SulongPAS
N22ManirHilmi HarunPAS
N23Kuala BerangMamad PutehPAS
N24AjilMaliaman KassimPAS
N26Rantau AbangAlias HarunPAS
N27SuraWan Hapandi Wan NikPAS
N28PakaSatiful Bahri MamatPAS
N29KemasikSaiful Azmi SuhailiPAS
N31CukaiHanifah MatPAS
N32Air PutihAb Razak IbrahimPAS
-Nominated MemberZuraida Mohd NoorPAS
 PenangN1PenagaMohd Yusni Mat PiahPAS
 PerakN5SelamaMohd Akmal KamaruddinPAS
N6Kubu GajahKhalil YahayaPAS
N11Gunong SemaggolRazman ZakariaPAS
 PahangN9TahanMohd Zakhwan Ahmad BadarddinPAS
N10DamakZuridan Mohd DaudPAS
N12BeserahAndansura RabuPAS
N15Tanjung LumpurRosli Abdul JabarPAS
N19PanchingMohd Tarmizi YahayaPAS
N24LuitMohd Soffian Abd JalilPAS
N26ChenorMujibur Rahman IshakPAS
N29JengkaShahril Azman Abd HalimPAS
 SelangorN51SijangkangAhmad Yunus HairiPAS
 JohorN8Bukit PasirNajib LepPAS
 Sabah-Nominated MemberAliakbar GunsalanPAS
TotalPerlis (2), Kedah (15), Kelantan (37), Terengganu (23), Penang (1) ,Perak (3), Pahang (8), Selangor (1), Johor (1), Sabah (1)

PAS state governments

PAS currently forms the state governments of the Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu. It is part of a coalition government in Johor and Perak. Previously, when it was a part of Pakatan Rakyat, it was part of the Penang and Selangor state governments.

State Leader type Member Party State Constituency
 KedahMenteri BesarMuhammad Sanusi Md NorPASJeneri
 KelantanMenteri BesarAhmad YakobPASPasir Pekan
 TerengganuMenteri BesarAhmad Samsuri MokhtarPASRhu Rendang

General election results

Election Total seats won Total votes Share of votes Outcome of election Election leader
1955
1 / 52
40,667 3.9% 1 seats; Opposition Abbas Alias
1959
13 / 104
329,070 21.3% 12 seats; Opposition Burhanuddin al-Helmy
1964
9 / 104
301,187 14.6% 4 seats; Opposition
1969
12 / 144
495,641 20.9% 3 seats; Opposition,
later Governing coalition
(Alliance)
1974
13 / 154
148,386 7.0% 1 seats; Governing coalition
(Barisan Nasional)
Asri Muda
1978
5 / 154
537,720 15.5% 8 seats; Opposition
1982
5 / 154
602,530 14.5% ; Opposition
1986
1 / 177
718,891 15.6% 4 seats; Opposition Yusof Rawa
1990
7 / 180
391,813 7.0% 6 seats; Opposition coalition
(Angkatan Perpaduan Ummah)
Fadzil Noor
1995
7 / 192
430,098 3.3% ; Opposition coalition
(Angkatan Perpaduan Ummah)
1999
27 / 193
994,279 14.99% 20 seats; Opposition coalition
(Barisan Alternatif)
2004
7 / 219
1,051,480 15.2% 20 seats; Opposition coalition
(Barisan Alternatif)
Abdul Hadi Awang
2008
23 / 222
1,140,676 14.05% 16 seats; Opposition coalition
(Pakatan Rakyat)
2013
21 / 222
1,633,199 14.77% 2 seats; Opposition coalition
(Pakatan Rakyat)
2018
18 / 222
2,032,080 17.89% 3 seats; Opposition coalition
(Gagasan Sejahtera),
later Governing coalition
(Perikatan Nasional)

State election results

State electionState Legislative Assembly
Perlis State Legislative AssemblyKedah State Legislative AssemblyKelantan State Legislative AssemblyTerengganu State Legislative AssemblyPenang State Legislative AssemblyPerak State Legislative AssemblyPahang State Legislative AssemblySelangor State Legislative AssemblyNegeri Sembilan State Legislative AssemblyMalacca State Legislative AssemblyJohor State Legislative AssemblySabah State Legislative AssemblySarawak State Legislative AssemblyTotal won / Total contested
1959
0 / 12
0 / 24
28 / 30
13 / 24
0 / 24
1 / 40
0 / 24
0 / 28
0 / 24
0 / 20
0 / 32
42 / 200
1964
1 / 12
0 / 24
21 / 30
3 / 24
0 / 24
0 / 40
0 / 24
0 / 28
0 / 24
0 / 20
0 / 32
25 / 158
1969
1 / 12
8 / 24
19 / 30
11 / 24
0 / 24
1 / 40
0 / 24
0 / 28
0 / 24
0 / 20
0 / 32
0 / 48
40 / 185
1974
2 / 12
5 / 26
22 / 36
10 / 28
1 / 27
3 / 42
1 / 32
1 / 33
0 / 24
1 / 20
0 / 32
0 / 48
1978
0 / 12
7 / 26
2 / 36
0 / 28
1 / 27
1 / 42
0 / 32
0 / 33
0 / 24
0 / 20
0 / 32
11 / 204
1982
1 / 12
2 / 26
10 / 36
5 / 28
0 / 27
0 / 42
0 / 32
0 / 33
0 / 24
0 / 20
0 / 32
18 / 223
1986
0 / 14
3 / 28
10 / 39
2 / 32
0 / 33
0 / 46
0 / 33
0 / 42
0 / 28
0 / 20
0 / 36
0 / 48
15 / 265
1987
1990
0 / 14
1 / 28
24 / 39
8 / 32
0 / 33
0 / 46
0 / 33
0 / 42
0 / 28
0 / 20
0 / 36
0 / 48
33 / 114
1994
0 / 48
0 / 3
1995
0 / 15
2 / 36
24 / 43
7 / 32
0 / 33
0 / 52
0 / 38
0 / 48
0 / 32
0 / 25
0 / 40
33 / 177
1999
3 / 15
12 / 36
41 / 43
28 / 32
1 / 33
3 / 52
6 / 38
4 / 48
0 / 32
0 / 25
0 / 40
0 / 48
98 / 234
2001
0 / 62
0 / 3
2004
1 / 15
5 / 36
24 / 45
4 / 32
1 / 40
0 / 59
0 / 42
0 / 56
0 / 36
0 / 28
1 / 56
0 / 60
36 / 265
2006
0 / 71
0 / 1
2008
1 / 15
16 / 36
38 / 45
8 / 32
1 / 40
6 / 59
2 / 42
8 / 56
1 / 36
0 / 28
2 / 56
0 / 60
83 / 232
2011
0 / 71
0 / 5
2013
1 / 15
9 / 36
32 / 45
14 / 32
1 / 40
5 / 59
3 / 42
15 / 56
0 / 36
1 / 28
4 / 56
0 / 60
85 / 236
2016
0 / 71
0 / 5
2018
2 / 15
15 / 36
37 / 45
22 / 32
1 / 40
3 / 59
8 / 42
1 / 56
0 / 36
0 / 28
1 / 56
0 / 60
90 / 236


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