Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man

In this Malay name, there is no surname or family name. The name Tuan Man is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by their given name, Tuan Ibrahim. The word "bin" or "binti"/"binte" means 'son of' or 'daughter of', respectively.

Tuan Ibharim bin Tuan Man^[1] or commonly known as Tuan Ibrahim bin Tuan Man (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.

Yang Berhormat Dato' Sri Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man SSAP SJMK DIMP MP MLA
توان إبراهيم توان من‎
State Leader of the Opposition of Pahang
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 December 2022
Monarch	Abdullah
Menteri Besar	Wan Rosdy Wan Ismail
Preceded by	Lee Chin Chen
Constituency	Cheka
Minister of Environment and Water
In office 30 August 2021 – 24 November 2022
Monarch	Abdullah
Prime Minister	Ismail Sabri Yaakob
Deputy	Mansor Othman
Preceded by	Himself
Succeeded by	Nik Nazmi (Minister of Natural Resources, Environment and Climate Change)
Constituency	Kubang Kerian
In office 10 March 2020 – 16 August 2021
Monarch	Abdullah
Prime Minister	Muhyiddin Yassin
Deputy	Ahmad Masrizal Muhammad
Preceded by	Yeo Bee Yin (Minister of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change) Xavier Jayakumar Arulanandam (Minister of Water, Land and Natural Resources)
Succeeded by	Himself
Constituency	Kubang Kerian
Deputy President of the Malaysian Islamic Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 June 2015
President	Abdul Hadi Awang
Spiritual Leader	Haron Din (2015–2016) Hashim Jasin (since 2016)
Preceded by	Mohamad Sabu
Member of the Malaysian Parliament for Kubang Kerian
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 May 2018
Preceded by	Ahmad Baihaki Atiqullah (PAS)
Majority	19,369 (2018) 40,847 (2022)
Member of the Pahang State Legislative Assembly for Cheka
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 November 2022
Preceded by	Lee Ah Wong (BN–MCA)
Majority	1,223 (2022)
Member of the Pahang State Legislative Assembly for Jengka
In office 29 November 1999 – 21 March 2004
Preceded by	Zainal Abidin Hassan (BN–UMNO)
Succeeded by	Abd Rahman Ibrahim (BN–UMNO)
Majority	1,714 (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)
Citizenship	Malaysia
Political party	Malaysian 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)
Spouse	Norrul Ain Md Hashim
Relations	Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat (Uncle-in-Law) Nik Mohamad Abduh (First Cousin)
Alma mater	National University of Malaysia (BA, MA)
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Lecturer Teacher
Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man on Parliament of Malaysia

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]

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 was elected as 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 the MP of Kubang Kerian constituency in the 14th Malaysian general election.^[10]

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]

Election results

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%

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%

Honours

Honours of Malaysia

• Malaysia :
  • Recipient of the 17th Yang di-Pertuan Agong Installation Medal (2024)
• Pahang:
  • Grand Knight of the Order of Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang (SSAP) – Dato' Sri (2020)^[20][21][22]
  • Knight Companion of the Order of the Crown of Pahang (DIMP) – Dato' (1998)^[23]
• Kelantan:
  • Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Life of the Crown of Kelantan (SJMK) – Dato' (2022)^[24]

See also

• Kubang Kerian (federal constituency)