Tuan Ibrahim

Tuan Ibrahim bin Tuan Man (Jawi: توان إبراهيم بن توان من) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Minister of Environment and Water in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) administration led by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin since March 2020, Member of Parliament (MP) for Kubang Kerian since May 2018 and Deputy President of the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), a component party of PN coalition, since June 2015. He served as Member of the Pahang State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Jengka from November 1999 to March 2004.
Early life.
Tuan Ibrahim was born on 27 August 1960 in Kampung Batu Balai, Jerantut, Pahang. He furthered his undergraduate studies at the National University of Malaysia and received a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) Degree and Leadership. He later went on to study undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 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 Manjong, Perak.
Political career.
Tuan Ibrahim is an "alim" (Islamic religious scholar). He contested and won the Pahang State Legislative Assembly seat of Jengka in the 1999 election. However, in the 2004 election, he was unseated amid a nationwide swing to the Barisan Nasional coalition. He tried to reclaim the seat in the 2008 and 2013 elections, but lost on each occasion to a Barisan Nasional candidate. In 2013 he became a vice-president of PAS, defeating Mahfuz Omar in an election at the party's annual general assembly. He has been the head of the party in the state of Pahang since 2004.
In 2018, Tuan Ibrahim was elected as MP of Kubang Kerian constituency in the 14th Malaysian general election.