Anwar Ibrahim
Anwar Ibrahim was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on August 10th, 1947 and is the Politician. At the age of 76, Anwar Ibrahim biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Anwar bin Ibrahim (born 10 August 1947) is a Malaysian politician.
He is the president of the People's Justice Party (PKR) and the leader of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) alliance.
Anwar has served as the current Member of Parliament (MP) for Port Dickson since 2018.
If he is not accompanying his wife Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, the new Prime Minister, Yang Berhormat, is referred to as Yang Amat Berbahagia if he is not. Anwar himself served as the Deputy Prime Minister from 1993 to 1998, and Finance Minister from 1991 to 1998, when he was a member of United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the leading party in the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition then.
However, he was fired from his post by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and jailed in April 1999.
Following his emergence in 2004, Anwar became the most prominent figure in the opposition and helped unite the opposition parties into the Pakatan Rakyat (PR), which defeated the 2008 and 2013 general elections.
He was the Opposition leader from 2008 to 2015. After a second sodomy conviction in 2015, Anwar was sentenced to a five-year prison term.
He was granted a royal pardon from Sultan Muhammad V and was released from jail on May 16, 2018, the day after Pakatan Harapan's victory in the 2018 general election.
He soon returned to his seat as a back-bencher by contesting and winning the Port Dickson by-election.
Early life and education
Anwar bin Ibrahim was born in Cherok Tok Kun, Bukit Mertajam, Malaysia. Ibrahim bin Abdul Rahman's father, a medical porter, began his career as a hospital porter, later moving to Parliament as the Minister of Health from 1959-1969, and then as the Minister of Health from 1964 to 1969, the only candidate from Gerakan. Che Yan binti Hussein, his mother, was a Penang housewife active in UMNO grassroots politics.
He started his secondary education at the Malay College Kuala Kangsar. He studied at the University of Malaya, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Malay Studies, and worked on his Masters in Literature at the National University of Malaysia from 1974 to 1975.
Early years (1968–1982)
Anwar, the president of Malaysian Muslim Students from 1968 to 1971, served as a student. He served as president of the University of Malaya Malay Language Society at the same time (Malay: Persatuan Bahasa Melayu University Malaya (PBMUM)). He served on the pro tem committee of Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (ABIM), or Muslim Youth Movement of Malaysia, which he co-founded in 1971. He was elected as the 2nd President of the Malaysian Youth Council, Majlis Belia Malaysia, at the same time (MBM). Anwar was arrested in 1974 amid student demonstrations against rural poverty and hunger. This came as a study that revealed that a family died of starvation in a village in Baling, which was later discovered to be incorrect. However, rubber tappers in Baling were also suffering severely when the price of rubber fell in 1974. He was detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA), which allows for arrest without question, and the Kamunting Detention Center spent 20 months in the Kamunting Detention Center. He served as a representative for Asia Pacific of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth from 1975 to 1982 (WAMY). Anwar Ibrahim is also the co-founder of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) in the United States (founded 1981). Anwar is one of the four acting directors, a board member of IIIT, and a trustee. He served as a chancellor of International Islamic University Kuala Lumpur between 1983 and 1988.
Personal life
He married former Deputy Prime Minister Wan Azizah Wan Ismail on February 26, 1980, and the two children and a boy have five children and a son. Nurul Izzah Anwar, his eldest daughter, is also an MP for Perpetang Pauh.
Early political career (1982–1998)
Anwar, the founding chief and second president of an Islamic youth group called Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (ABIM), joined the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), led by Mahathir Mohamad, who had been prime minister in 1981.
Anwar gained acclaim to high-ranking positions in 1983; his first ministerial office was in 1983; after that, he headed the Agriculture Ministry in 1984 before becoming Minister of Education in 1986.
Anwar introduced a variety of reforms in the national school curriculum during his tenure as Education Minister. One of his major changes was to rename the national language from Bahasa Malaysia to Bahasa Melayu. Non-Malays opposed the change because it would cause the younger generation to be cut from the national language if they were to the Malays rather than Malaysians. Anwar was elected as the 25th President of UNESCO's General Conference as the education minister. Anwar Ibrahim was appointed as the second President of Malaysia's International Islamic University in 1988. According to former Education Minister Zaid Ibrahim, Anwar was an Islamist who "assistified the entire government system" and played a significant role in the reform of the education system in the 1980s.
Anwar was appointed Minister of Finance in 1991. His influence as Finance Minister was immediate; Malaysian prosperity and economic growth were on full throttle during his tenure as Prime Minister; Following his appointment as Finance Minister, Euromoney named him as a top-four finance minister, and in 1996, Asiamoney named him Finance Minister of the Year. Anwar, a deputy prime minister and finance minister, was praised for leading Malaysia through the period of instability in the aftermath of the 1997 Asian financial crisis. He endorsed free-market principles and highlighted Malaysia's closeness to industry and politics. He argued for greater accountability, refused to provide government bail-outs, and instituted widespread budget cuts. Anwar was elected chairman of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) from March 1998 to September 1998.
After winning the Deputy Presidency of UMNO against Ghafar Baba in 1993, he was often promised to replace Mahathir as prime minister, as he frequently alluded in public to his "son-father" relationship with Mahathir. By then, rumors surrounding Anwar's ascension to the position of Deputy Prime Minister Theresa May had been rife.
Mahathir had appointed Anwar to be acting Prime Minister when he took a two-month break in May 1997. Anwar had taken radical steps in Mahathir's absence, which directly contradicted Mahathir's policies, to reform the country's control system. Often at the center of the conflict were questions like how Malaysia would respond to a financial crisis. Despite this, the relationship with Mahathir had begun to deteriorate towards the end of the 1990s, partly as a result of their differing views on governance.
Mahathir was angered by the war's frontal attack on what he described as the widespread culture of nepotism and cronyism within UMNO (and the upper coalition as a whole), as well as his attempts to destabilize the government's protectionist policies that Mahathir had initiated. Anwar described "cronyism" as a major source of misappropriation and misappropriation of funds in the region.
Anwar, who was in the midst of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, endorsed the IMF's programme as a finance minister. He also introduced an austerity package that cut government spending by 18%, reduced ministerial salaries, and delayed major projects. Despite being a pillar of Mahathir's growth plan, "mega projects" were greatly delayed.
Although many Malaysian firms faced bankruptcy, Anwar said: "There is no question of any bailout." The banks will be able to shield themselves, and the government will not intervene." Anwar argued for a free-market response to the crisis, which included foreign investment and trade liberalisation. Mahathir blamed currency speculators like George Soros for the crisis, which resulted in increased currency control and tighter oversight of foreign investment.
Anwar was named as the "Asian of the Year" in 1998 by Newsweek magazine. However, Anwar and Mahathir's relations came to a halt during the quadrennial UMNO General Assembly last year. UMNO's Youth Wing, headed by Anwar's associate Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, announced that it would launch a discussion on "cronyism and nepotism." A book by Khalid Jafri, "50 Dalil Kenapa Anwar Tidak Boleh Jadi Prime Minister") ("50 Reasons Why Anwar Cannot Be Prime Minister") was circulated at the General Assembly, containing graphic accusations of misogyny, as well as accusations of wrongdoing against Anwar. Khalid Jafri, the ex-editor of the government-controlled newspaper Utusan Malaysia and former editor-in-chief of a failed magazine, Harian National, was a failure. Anwar obtained a court order to stop the book from being published further, and commenced a lawsuit against the author for defamation. The book's author was charged with malicious publication of inaccurate information by the police. The police were ordered to investigate the allegations' veracity.
Anwar was dismissed from the Cabinet on September 2, 1998, and many sources indicate that he was under scrutiny for sodomy, an offence in Malaysia. He was banned from UMNO the next day. Anwar was arrested on September 20, 1998, and detained without charge under the country's controversial Internal Security Act (ISA). Mahathir, the Home Minister at the time, was also the Prime Minister at the time. Anwar was charged with misconduct for reportedly interfering with the police probe into him weeks later. Anwar was beaten by Rahim Noor, then Inspector General of Police, when he was in police detention in 1998. After being taken to Court for the first time, the public and media saw his black eye firsthand. Mahathir remarked that it might have been a self-inflicted injury that had honed public sympathy. In 2000, Rahim was found guilty of assault and jailed for two months. He expressed his regret for Anwar and paid undisclosed damages. A mattress that was allegedly stained with Anwar's semen was shown to the court as DNA evidence of Anwar's sexual crimes during the trial. Anwar denied having anything to do with the mattress, but DNA tests revealed it was positive. During the trial, Lim Kong Boon, a DNA chemist, testified that DNA obtained from 10 of 13 semen stains on the mattress matches Anwar's DNA. After being arrested in police detention, the defense team suspected that DNA samples could have been obtained from Anwar to frame Anwar; however, High Court Judge Augustine Paul accepted that DNA results.
The Supreme Court finally delivered its decision in April 1999, sentenceing Anwar to six years in jail for deceitful conduct and sodomy. He was sentenced to nine months in jail for sodomy, a crime he was sentenced to serve after serving his six-year term for corruption two months later. The international community had largely discredited his appeal and conviction. The trial proceedings, according to Amnesty International, "exposed a pattern of political abuse of key state organizations, including the police, public prosecutors' office, and the judiciary," and declared Anwar a prisoner of conscience, despite the fact that he had been detained in order to discredit him as a political opponent.
On September 2, 2004, the Federal Court reversed his conviction and Anwar was released from solitary confinement.