Ronald Kiandee

{{Short description|Malaysian politician (born 1961)}}

{{EngvarB|date=May 2018}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = Yang Berhormat Datuk Seri Dr.

| name = Ronald Kiandee

| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=MYS|size=100|SMW|PGDK|MP}}

| image = Ronald Kiandee Senate of Poland.JPG

| caption = Ronald Kiandee in the Polish Senate (2013)

| birth_name = Ronald Kiandee

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1961|01|10|df=y}}

| birth_place = Beluran, Sandakan, Crown Colony of North Borneo {{small|(now Sabah, Malaysia)}}

| residence =

| death_date =

| death_place =

| office = Minister of Agriculture and Food Industries

| term_start = 30 August 2021

| term_end = 24 November 2022

| monarch = Abdullah

| primeminister = Ismail Sabri Yaakob

| deputy = Ahmad Hamzah
Nik Muhammad Zawawi Salleh

| predecessor = Himself

| successor = Mohamad Sabu
{{small|(Minister of Agriculture and Food Security)}}

| constituency = Beluran

| term_start1 = 10 March 2020

| term_end1 = 16 August 2021

| monarch1 = Abdullah

| primeminister1 = Muhyiddin Yassin

| deputy1 = Ahmad Hamzah
Che Abdullah Mat Nawi

| predecessor1 = Salahuddin Ayub
{{small|as Minister of Agriculture and Agro-based Industry}}

| successor1 = Himself

| constituency1 = Beluran

| office2 = Deputy Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat I

| primeminister2 = Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Najib Razak

| alongside2 = Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar (2008–2013)
Ismail Mohamed Said (2013–2018)

| term_start2 = 28 April 2008

| term_end2 = 10 May 2018

| predecessor2 = Yusof Yacob

| successor2 = Mohd Rashid Hasnon

| monarch2 = Mizan Zainal Abidin
Abdul Halim
Muhammad V

| 1blankname2 = Speaker

| 1namedata2 = Pandikar Amin Mulia

| constituency2 = Beluran

| office3 = Chairman of the
Public Accounts Committee

| deputy3 = Wong Kah Woh

| term_start3 = 7 August 2018

| term_end3 = 11 April 2019

| predecessor3 = Hasan Arifin

| successor3 = Noraini Ahmad

| appointer3 = Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof

| nominator3 = Mahathir Mohamad

| constituency3 = Beluran

| office4 = Vice President of the
Malaysian United Indigenous Party

| alongside4 = Radzi Jidin &
Mohd Rafiq Naizamohideen {{small|(2020–2022)}} &
Ahmad Faizal Azumu {{small|(since 2024)}}

| term_start4 = 23 August 2020

| term_end4 =

| president4 = Muhyiddin Yassin

| office5 = 2nd State Chairman of the
Malaysian United Indigenous Party of Sabah

| term_start5 = 11 December 2022

| term_end5 =

| president5 = Muhyiddin Yassin

| deputy5 = Aksyah Nasrah
{{small|(2022–2024)}}
Muhammad Affan Jumahat
{{small|(since 2025)}}

| predecessor5 = Hajiji Noor

| successor5 =

| constituency_MP6 = Beluran

| parliament6 = Malaysian

| term_start6 = 29 November 1999

| term_end6 =

| majority6 = 1,276 (1999)
Walkover (2004)
4,352 (2008)
9,988 (2013)
7,115 (2018)
1,594 (2022)

| predecessor6 = Asmat Nungka
(BNUMNO)

| successor6 =

| office7 = Faction represented in Dewan Rakyat

| subterm7 = 1999–2018

| suboffice7 = Barisan Nasional

| subterm8 = 2018–2019

| suboffice8 = Independent

| subterm9 = 2019–2020

| suboffice9 = Pakatan Harapan

| subterm10 = 2020

| suboffice10 = Malaysian United Indigenous Party

| subterm11 = 2020–

| suboffice11 = Perikatan Nasional

| party = United Malays National Organisation of Sabah (Sabah UMNO)
{{small|(–2018)}}
Malaysian United Indigenous Party of Sabah (Sabah BERSATU)
{{small|(since 2019)}}

| otherparty = Barisan Nasional (BN)
{{small|(–2018)}}
Pakatan Harapan (PH)
{{small|(2019–2020)}}
Perikatan Nasional (PN)
{{small|(since 2020)}}

| alma_mater = Universiti Putra Malaysia (BSc)
Universiti Tun Abdul Razak (MBA)
Universiti Sains Malaysia (PhD)

| citizenship = Malaysian

| occupation = Politician

| relations =

| spouse =

| children =

| website =

| footnotes =

}}

Ronald Kiandee (born 10 January 1961) is a Malaysian politician. A member of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU) and its Vice President since August 2020 and 2nd State Chairman of Sabah since December 2022, he has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Beluran since November 1999. He served as Minister of Agriculture and Food Industries 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. He was reappointed to the same post for a second term in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under former Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob from August 2021 until the dissolution of the BN government in November 2022, when BN lost its reelection campaign in the 2022 general election. Prior to serving in the Cabinet, Kiandee was the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration from 2018 to 2019 and Deputy Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat I in the BN administration from 2008 to 2018.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2019/03/15/six-sabah-reps-who-jumped-from-umno-get-bersatu-cards/|title=Six Sabah reps who jumped from Umno get Bersatu cards|work= The Star|author= Mazwin Nik Anis and Joseph Kaos Jr|date=15 March 2019|access-date=15 March 2019}} He is presently the sole MP of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party of Sabah (Sabah BERSATU) and one of the only two non-Muslim (Christian) MPs and East Malaysian MPs of PN alongside Ali Biju.

Early life

He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in political sociology from Universiti Sains Malaysia.

Political career

Kiandee was elected to Dewan Rakyat first in the 1999 election.{{cite news|url=http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=56811|title=Kiandee, Junaidi in line for Deputy Speaker post|date=10 April 2008|work=Daily Express (Malaysia)|access-date=2 April 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110621232822/http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=56811|archive-date=21 June 2011|df=dmy-all}} He was Deputy Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat from April 2008 until the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration lost its re-election campaign in May 2018. Kiandee then served as chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) from 2018 to 2019.{{Cite news|url=https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2018/08/07/former-deputy-speaker-kiandee-appointed-pac-chief/1659978|title=Former deputy speaker Kiandee appointed PAC chief |publisher= Malay Mail|author= Yiswaree Palansamy|date=7 August 2018|access-date=12 April 2019}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/noraini-takes-over-ronald-kiandee-pac-chair|title=Noraini Ahmad takes over from Ronald Kiandee as PAC chair|publisher= The Edge Market|author=Ahmad Naqib Idris|date=April 12, 2019|access-date=April 12, 2019}}

Kiandee left United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) in the opposition Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition to become an Independent on 12 December 2018, before later joining BERSATU.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2018/12/12/sabah-umno-exodus-begins-with-nine-of-10-assemblymen-leaving-party/|title=Sabah Umno exodus sees nine of 10 Aduns, five of six MPs leave|work= The Star|author=Muguntan Vanar, Stephanie Lee and Natasha Joibi|date=12 December 2018|access-date=15 December 2018}} After the then chairman of BERSATU Sabah, Hajiji Noor, announced on 10 December 2022 that all MPs and MLAs of BERSATU had quit the party and joined Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) coalition as a direct member in line of the federal coalition of GRS + PH + BN + Gabungan Parti Sarawak, Ronald announced he would stay in the party, and succeeded Hajiji as the chairman of BERSATU Sabah and PN Sabah.{{cite web |author1=Bernama |title=Bersatu won't close shop in Sabah, says Ronald Kiandee |url=https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2022/12/10/bersatu-wont-close-shop-in-sabah-says-ronald-kiandee/ |publisher=Free Malaysia Today |access-date=29 December 2022 |date=10 December 2022}}

Election results

class="wikitable" style="margin:0.5em ; font-size:95%"

|+ Sabah State Legislative Assembly

!|Year

!|Constituency

!colspan=2|Candidate

!|Votes

!|Pct

!colspan=2|Opponent(s)

!|Votes

!|Pct

!|Ballots cast

!|Majority

!|Turnout

rowspan="4" |1990

| rowspan="9" |N15 Sugut

|rowspan=5 {{Party shading/Independent}} |

| rowspan="4" |Ronald Kiandee (AKAR)

| rowspan="4" align="right" |231

| rowspan="4" |6.80%

|{{Party shading/United Sabah Party}} |

|Jublee Zen (PBS)

|align="right" |1,666

|49.06%

| rowspan="4" |3,289

| rowspan="4" |459

| rowspan="4" |69.62%

bgcolor="{{party color|United Sabah National Organisation}}" |

|Musa Aman (USNO)

|align="right" |1,207

|35.54%

bgcolor="{{Love Sabah Party/meta/shading}}" |

|Abdul Rahman Atang (BERJAYA)

|align="right" |114

|3.36%

bgcolor="{{Sabah People's Unity Party/meta/shading}}" |

|Julius Niyo (PRS)

|align="right" |71

|2.09%

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|+ Parliament of Malaysia{{cite web|url=http://semak.spr.gov.my/spr/laporan/5_KedudukanAkhir.php|title=Keputusan Pilihan Raya Umum Parlimen/Dewan Undangan Negeri|publisher=Election Commission of Malaysia|access-date=18 May 2018}} Percentage figures based on total turnout (including votes for candidates not listed).{{cite web|url=https://election.thestar.com.my/sabah.html|title=Sabah [Parliament Results]|work=The Star|access-date=18 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517234741/https://election.thestar.com.my/sabah.html|archive-date=17 May 2018|url-status=dead}}

!|Year

!|Constituency

!colspan=2|Candidate

!|Votes

!|Pct

!colspan=2|Opponent(s)

!|Votes

!|Pct

!|Ballots cast

!|Majority

!|Turnout

rowspan=2|1999

|rowspan=2|P159 Beluran

|rowspan=2 {{Party shading/Barisan Nasional}} |

|rowspan=2|{{nowrap|Ronald Kiandee}} (UMNO)

|rowspan=2 align="right" |6,562

|rowspan=2|54.38%

|{{Party shading/United Sabah Party}} |

|Dennis Rantau (PBS)

|align="right" |5,286

|43.81%

|rowspan=2|12,231

|rowspan=2|1,276

|rowspan=2|65.79%

{{party shading/Independent}} |

|Liew Teck Khen (IND)

|align="right" |219

|align="right" |1.81%

2004

|rowspan=17|P183 Beluran

|{{Party shading/Barisan Nasional}} |

|{{nowrap|Ronald Kiandee}} (UMNO)

| colspan=9 bgcolor="dcdcdc"|{{center|Unopposed}}

rowspan=4|2008

|rowspan=4 {{Party shading/Barisan Nasional}} |

|rowspan=4|{{nowrap|Ronald Kiandee}} (UMNO)

|rowspan=4 align="right" |7,090

|rowspan=4|59.86%

|{{Party shading/Independent}} |

|Ramsah Tasim (IND)

|align="right" |2,738

|23.12%

|rowspan=4|12,349

|rowspan=4|4,352

|rowspan=4|64.38%

{{Party shading/Keadilan}} |

|Michael Luban (PKR)

|align="right" |1,271

|10.73%

{{Party shading/Independent}} |

|Petrus Rining (IND)

|align="right" |571

|align="right" |4.82%

{{Party shading/Independent}} |

|Nordin Kaning (IND)

|align="right" |175

|align="right" |1.48%

rowspan=3|2013

|rowspan=3 {{Party shading/Barisan Nasional}} |

|rowspan=3|{{nowrap|Ronald Kiandee}} (UMNO)

|rowspan=3 align="right" |13,174

|rowspan=3|71.75%

|{{Party shading/Keadilan}} |

|James Miki (PKR)

|align="right" |3,186

|17.35%

|rowspan=3|18,915

|rowspan=3|9,988

|rowspan=3|76.62%

{{party shading/State Reform Party}} |

|Raimon Lanjat (STAR)

|align="right" |1,460

|align="right" |7.95%

{{party shading/Independent}} |

|Kamaruddin Mustapha (IND)

|align="right" |542

|align="right" |2.95%

rowspan=5|2018

|rowspan=5 {{Party shading/Barisan Nasional}} |

|rowspan=5|{{nowrap|Ronald Kiandee}} (UMNO)

|rowspan=5 align="right" |13,007

|rowspan=5|62.84%

|{{Party shading/Sabah Heritage Party}} |

|Japar Zairun (WARISAN)

|align="right" |5,892

|28.47%

|rowspan=5|21,606

|rowspan=5|7,115

|rowspan=5|75.79%

{{Party shading/Sabah People's Hope Party}} |

|Sipin Kadandi (PHRS)

|align="right" |996

|align="right" |4.81%

bgcolor={{Party color|Love Sabah Party}} |

|Toidy Luit (PCS)

|align="right" |284

|align="right" |1.37%

bgcolor={{Party color|Sabah People's Unity Party}} |

|Lem Matin (PPRS)

|align="right" |273

|align="right" |1.32%

{{Party shading/Independent}} |

|Salimah Oyong (IND)

|align="right" |246

|align="right" |1.19%

rowspan=4|2022

|rowspan=4 bgcolor={{Party color|Perikatan Nasional}} |

|rowspan=4|{{nowrap|Ronald Kiandee}} (BERSATU)

|rowspan=4 align="right" |11,303

|rowspan=4|38.53%

|{{Party shading/Barisan Nasional}} |

|Benedict Asmat (UMNO)

|align="right" |9,709

|33.10%

|rowspan=4|29,951

|rowspan=4|1,594

|rowspan=4|65.58%

{{party shading/PH}} |

|Felix Joseph Saang (UPKO)

|align="right" |4,460

|15.20%

{{Party shading/Sabah Heritage Party}} |

|Rowiena Rasid (WARISAN)

|align="right" |3,707

|12.64%

bgcolor={{Party color|Homeland Fighter's Party}} |

|Hausing Sudin (PEJUANG)

|align="right" |155

|align="right" |0.53%

Honours

  • {{flag|Malaysia}} :
  • 50px Recipient of the 17th Yang di-Pertuan Agong Installation Medal
  • {{Flag|Sabah}} :
  • 50px Commander of the Order of Kinabalu (PGDK) – Datuk (2004)
  • {{Flag|Federal Territory (Malaysia)}} :
  • 50px Grand Commander of the Order of the Territorial Crown (SMW) – Datuk Seri (2014){{cite web|url=http://www.istiadat.gov.my/index.php/component/semakanlantikanskp/|title=SEMAKAN PENERIMA DARJAH KEBESARAN, BINTANG DAN PINGAT|publisher=Prime Minister's Department (Malaysia)|access-date=25 October 2018}}{{cite web|date=1 February 2014|publisher=The Star|access-date=25 November 2018|url=https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2014/02/01/some-320-individuals-receive-ft-awards/|title=Some 320 individuals awarded in conjunction with Federal Territories Day|work=L. Suganya}}

See also

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References