Ikatan Masyarakat Islam Malaysia

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Muslim Community Union of Malaysia
Ikatan Masyarakat Islam Malaysia
HeadquartersTerengganu
IdeologyIslamism
Social justice
ReligionSunni Islam

Ikatan Masyarakat Islam Malaysia (

Islamic political party formed in 1991 and based in Terengganu.[1]

IKATAN was a splinter party of Muslim People's Party of Malaysia (

Dungun, Terengganu who had resign from HAMIM together with his dissident supporters after losing the HAMIM presidential seat contest in 1990.[2]

Initially the party with the headquarter in Kuala Lumpur had been tried to be registered with the acronym IMAM but was disapproved by Registrar of Societies (ROS) and finally the IKATAN acronym was used.

The constitution of IKATAN was amended to change the name of the party to the National Justice Party (

Parti Keadilan Rakyat) (PKR) after the merger with Malaysian People's Party (Malay: Parti Rakyat Malaysia) (PRM) on 3 August 2003.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ The Far East and Australasia 2003, London: Europa Publications, 2002,
  2. ^ Samsul Adabi Mamat (28 Jun 2015). "Nasib Parti-parti Serpihan". Utusan Malaysia (in Malay). Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  3. ^ "PKR watershed election, by Azam Aris, Tuesday 26 February 2008, The Edge". Archived from the original on July 13, 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
  4. ^ Malaysiakini : PKR launched, promises to be truly multi-racial