Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah

Sabah People's Ideas Party
Malay nameParti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah
AbbreviationGAGASAN / PGRS
PresidentHajiji Noor
Secretary-GeneralRazali Razi
Deputy PresidentMasidi Manjun
Vice PresidentsMohd Arifin Mohd Arif
Rubin Balang
Masiung Banah
FounderAtiong Tituh[1]
Founded28 August 2013
Split fromBERSATU (Hajiji Noor)
UMNO (James Ratib)
WARISAN (Yusuf Yacob)
Preceded byAKAR (Ationg Tituh)
HeadquartersIbu Pejabat Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah, Block G, Lor Plaza Permai 2, Alamesra, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
Student wingGagasan Rakyat Student Wing Associate[2]
Youth wingPemuda Gagasan Rakyat Sabah
Membership (2025)579,980
IdeologyRegionalism
Multiracialism
Self-determination
Sabahan nationalism
Sabah & Sarawak unity
MA63 rights
Political positionCentre to centre-right
National affiliationGabungan Rakyat Sabah (since 2022)
National Unity Government (since 2022)
ColoursRed & Blue
AnthemGagasan Rakyat Rumah Kita
Dewan Negara:
2 / 70
Dewan Rakyat:
0 / 25
(Sabah and Labuan seats)
Sabah State Legislative Assembly:
25 / 79
Chief ministers in malaysia
1 / 13
Election symbol
Website
gagasanrakyat.my

Sabah People's Ideas Party (Malay: Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah; abbrev: GAGASAN or PGRS) is a regionalist political party based in Sabah, East Malaysia. Founded in August 2013 by the late Ationg Tituh, continued by Stephen Jacob Jimbangan in 2021, the party was then taken over by Hajiji Noor in 2023 and is currently the largest party in Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS), the ruling coalition in Sabah.[3]

History

The party was founded on 28 August 2013 by the late Ationg Tituh as a successor to the dissolved United People's Justice Front Party (AKAR)[4] but remained dormant until 2016 due to a lack of funds and manpower.[5]

GAGASAN was a member to a failed merger involving Love Sabah Party, Sabah Native Cooperation Party, and a yet-to-be-registered Parti Hak Sabah with Anifah Aman as president.[6][7] Prior to the party's takeover by Hajiji in 2023, it was dominated by the Kadazan-Dusun-Murut-Rungus (KDMR), an amalgamation of related indigenous ethnic groups.[8][5]

The party's current leadership under Hajiji Noor was involved in a series of political realignments and party hopping before ending up taking over GAGASAN. Hajiji who once headed UMNO Sabah decided to quit the party in the aftermath of 2018 Malaysian general election.[9] In 2019 the faction became the core of newly-founded expansion of Malaysian United Indigenous Party in Sabah, then component of ruling Pakatan Harapan.[10] The faction supported Muhyiddin's Perikatan Nasional government in 2020, with Hajiji Noor leading then loose Gabungan Rakyat Sabah to win 2020 Sabah state election.[11] Hajiji then led this faction to quit both Perikatan Nasional and BERSATU in 10 December 2022 when Gabungan Rakyat Sabah decided to support Anwar Ibrahim cabinet.[12]

Sabah Chief Minister Hajiji Noor announced his takeover of the party on 29 January 2023, with the party having been accepted into the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah coalition, which Hajiji also led, on 9 December 2022.[13] The four members of parliament who left the Malaysian United Indigenous Party of Sabah in December 2022 were not allowed to join GAGASAN as a result of the federal anti-party hopping law.[14]

The party gained 26 members of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly over the course of the 2023 Sabah political crisis.

List of leaders

President

Order Name Term of office Remarks
1 Dr. Ationg Tituh 28 August 2013 20 May 2021 [15][1]
2 Stephen Jacob Jimbangan 21 May 2021 29 January 2023 [16]
3 Hajiji Noor 5 February 2023 incumbent [3][17]

Leadership structure

Central leadership

Divisional chairpersons[18]

Party symbols

Flag and colours

GAGASAN's flag consists of a red field defaced with a central light blue simplified silhouette of Mount Kinabalu, above the party name “GAGASAN RAKYAT” in white uppercase, set in two right-aligned lines beneath the silhouette, each line approximately less than a half of the silhouette. The main colors used in the party's logo and flag are red, white and blue.[3]

Elected representatives

Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives)

Members of Parliament of the 15th Malaysian Parliament

Dewan Negara (Senate)

Senators

Dewan Undangan Negeri (State Legislative Assembly)

Sabah State Legislative Assembly

25 / 79
State No. Parliamentary Constituency No. State Constituency Member Party
Sabah P167 KudatN01BanggiMohammad MohamarinGAGASAN
N03PitasRuddy AwahGAGASAN
N04Tanjong KaporBen Chong Chen BinGAGASAN
P169 Kota Belud N09TempasukMohd Arsad BistariGAGASAN
P170 Tuaran N12SulamanHajiji NoorGAGASAN
N13Pantai DalitJasnih DayaGAGASAN
P173 Putatan N24Tanjung KeramatShah Alfie YahyaGAGASAN
P175 Papar N28KawangGulamhaidar @ Yusof Khan BahadarGAGASAN
N29Pantai ManisPengiran Saifuddin Pengiran Tahir PetraGAGASAN
P176 Kimanis N31MembakutMohd Arifin Mohd ArifGAGASAN
P177 Beaufort N32KliasIsnin AliasnihGAGASAN
N33Kuala PenyuLimus JuryGAGASAN
P179 Ranau N37KaranaanMasidi ManjunGAGASAN
P181 Tenom N43KemabongRubin BalangGAGASAN
P182 Pensiangan N46NabawanAbdul Ghani Mohamed YassinGAGASAN
P183 Beluran N48SugutJames RatibGAGASAN
N49LabukSamad JambriGAGASAN
P184 Libaran N51Sungai ManilaHazem Mubarak MusaGAGASAN
P187 Kinabatangan N57KuamutMasiung BanahGAGASAN
P190 Tawau N67BalungSyed Ahmad Syed AbasGAGASAN
N68ApasNizam Abu Bakar TitinganGAGASAN
P191 Kalabakan N71Tanjung BatuAndi Muhammad ShamsureezalGAGASAN
-Nominated MemberCeasar Mandela MalakunGAGASAN
Razali RaziGAGASAN
Abdul Kassim RazaliGAGASAN
Total Sabah (25)

Government offices

State governments

Since the takeover by ex-BERSATU members, the GAGASAN has led the GRS government in Sabah.

Note: bold as Menteri Besar/Chief Minister, italic as junior partner

State Leader type Member State Constituency
SabahChief MinisterHajiji NoorSulaman
State Leader type Member State Constituency
SabahDeputy Chief Minister IIMasidi ManjunKaranaan

General election results

Election Total seats won Seats contested Total votes Voting Percentage Outcome of election Election leader
2018
0 / 222
 7 8,875 1.97% Steady; independent position Ationg Tituh

State election results

State election State Legislative Assembly
Sabah Total won / Total contested
2/3 majority
2 / 3
2 / 3
2018
0 / 60
0 / 10
2020
0 / 73
0 / 28
2025
22 / 73
22 / 37

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Keputusan | Pilihan Raya Umum Malaysia Ke-15".
  2. ↑ PGRS Tandingi Semua 73 Kerusi
  3. 1 2 3 "Hajiji bakal ketuai Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah" [Hajiji to lead Sabah People's Idea Party] (in Malay). 29 January 2023. Archived from the original on 29 January 2023.
  4. ↑ PGRS dibentuk pada tahun 2009 tetapi hanya diluluskan secara rasmi oleh Pendaftar Pertubuhan tiga tahun kemudian.
  5. 1 2 Fong, Durie Rainer (27 August 2019). "Sabah's small opposition party has big aims". Free Malaysia Today. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
  6. ↑ Hayati Dzulkifli and Sherell Ann Jeffrey (8 March 2020). "New Sabah opposition grouping is formed". Daily Express. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  7. ↑ Muguntan Vanar (28 July 2020). "Anifah's planned Sabah opposition front fizzles out". The Star Online. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  8. ↑ Avila Geraldine (9 March 2020). "Gagasan led by Anifah Aman not likely to make a big impact". New Straits Times. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  9. ↑ Miwil, Mohd Izham Unnip Abdullah dan Olivia (12 December 2018). "UMNO Sabah 'berkubur'...? [METROTV]". Harian Metro. Retrieved 4 August 2026.
  10. ↑ "Bersatu rasmi bertapak di Sabah". www.utusanborneo.com.my (in Malay). 6 April 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2026.
  11. ↑ Malaysiakini, Pasukan (29 November 2025). "LANGSUNG | Hajiji angkat sumpah pagi ini". Malaysiakini. Retrieved 4 August 2026.
  12. ↑ Abdullah, Izwan (10 December 2022). "Pemimpin BERSATU Sabah keluar parti, kekal bawah GRS - Hajiji". Berita Harian. Retrieved 4 August 2026.
  13. ↑ "Hajiji bakal ketuai Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah". www.astroawani.com. 29 January 2023. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
  14. ↑ "Bekas Ahli Parlimen Bersatu tidak akan sertai GRS". 29 January 2023.
  15. ↑ "13 buah parti baru di Sabah diluluskan". Free Malaysia Today. Malaysia. 25 March 2014. Archived from the original on 6 December 2017. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  16. ↑ "Keputusan | Pilihan Raya Umum Malaysia Ke-15".
  17. ↑ "Hajiji is Gagasan Rakyat president | The Malaysian Insight". www.themalaysianinsight.com. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  18. ↑ "Parti Bersatu Sabah | Ketua Bahagian PBS". Parti Bersatu Sabah.

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