Malaysian United Indigenous Party

First Transition and Collapse · Chronicle · 5 min read

Bagaimana BERSATU Ditubuhkan? Belahan Mahathir dan Muhyiddin dari UMNO

Seorang bekas perdana menteri, seorang bekas timbalan perdana menteri dan sebuah parti berteras Bumiputera berjalan masuk ke dalam gabungan Anwar serta DAP

Selepas pertikaian 1MDB, Mahathir keluar dari UMNO dan Muhyiddin dipecat; mereka menubuhkan BERSATU pada 2016. BERSATU membawa politik Bumiputera ke dalam PH yang berbilang kaum, membuka laluan ke kawasan Melayu dan serentak membawa konflik haluan masa depan ke dalam kerajaan.

Unity Government and Reform · Life · 4 min read

Who Is Muhyiddin Yassin? From UMNO Deputy to Pandemic Prime Minister after Sheraton

Johor Menteri Besar, deputy prime minister, Bersatu leader, eighth prime minister, and how a thin-majority government ruled during COVID-19

Muhyiddin rose for decades inside UMNO, serving as Johor Menteri Besar and deputy prime minister, before breaking with Najib over 1MDB and helping form Bersatu. After the Sheraton Move in 2020, he became prime minister, but had to govern through a pandemic, a thin majority, and an emergency controversy; to understand him is to understand how the old system recombined after the 2018 turnover.

Unity Government and Reform · Debate · 14 min read

The Pakatan Melayu Coalition Debate: A Constitutional Right to Ethnic Unity or a Political Trap of Ethnic Mobilization?

The Malay sovereignty coalition argues "ethnic integration is a constitutionally guaranteed democratic right," while the pluralist reform coalition argues "ethnic mobilization is racial politics and must be properly named"—each figure is sourced, each judgment is placed in a :::penilaian framework

On July 11, 2026, Johor held state elections, with Barisan Nasional defeating Pakatan Harapan 48-8, a net gain of eight seats; on August 1, Negeri Sembilan held state elections, with Barisan Nasional winning 18 seats and Perikatan Nasional winning 7 seats, totaling 25 seats—more than a two-thirds majority—while Pakatan Harapan won only 11 seats. An apparent UMNO-PAS coordination in concentrating Malay votes subjected the federal ruling government to its greatest political pressure since the 2022 general election. The core dispute is whether political integration under the banner of Malay ethnic interests represents a legitimate means of self-preservation for a vulnerable group in a plural democracy, or a systematic marginalization of non-Malay citizens through racial politics.