Ghafar Baba

Yang Amat Berbahagia Tun
Abdul Ghafar Baba
S.M.N.
6th Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
In office
1986  1 December 1993
Preceded by Musa Hitam
Succeeded by Anwar Ibrahim
Personal details
Born Abdul Ghafar bin Baba
(1925-02-18)18 February 1925
Kuala Pilah, Negeri Sembilan, British Malaya (now Malaysia)
Died 23 April 2006(2006-04-23) (aged 81)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Resting place Makam Pahlawan, Masjid Negara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Citizenship Malaysian
Political party United Malays National Organisation
Spouse(s) Asmah Alang
Dayang Heryati Abdul Rahim
Occupation Teacher
Religion Sunni Islam

Tun Abdul Ghafar bin Baba (18 February 1925 – 23 April 2006) was a Malaysian politician from Melaka who was Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1986 to 1993.

Life and career

He was born on 18 February 1925 in Kuala Pilah, Negeri Sembilan, the son of an impoverished villager. Ghafar Baba became a teacher and later became a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) political party, which is part of the Barisan Nasional coalition.

In 1942, he married Toh Puan Asmah Binti Alang and fathered twelve children, five of whom have died. In the early 1990s, he married his second wife Heryati Abdul Rahim, and had one child with her.

In 1986, he was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Previously, Musa Hitam held the deputy premiership but he resigned, citing irreconcilable differences with Mahathir.[1] On 15 October 1993, during a UMNO election, he was challenged by Anwar Ibrahim. Ghafar Baba was defeated by Anwar and subsequently lost the deputy premiership.

On 23 April 2006, he died at Gleneagles Intan Medical Centre in Kuala Lumpur due to poor heart and lung condition. He had been in critical condition for several months prior to his death. He was buried in an official state funeral at Makam Pahlawan near Masjid Negara, Kuala Lumpur on the same day alongside the graves of former Prime Ministers Tun Abdul Razak and Tun Hussein Onn and former Deputy Prime Minister Tun Dr Ismail before nightfall.[2][3]

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Legacy

Several places were named after him, including:

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 3 Putra, Tunku Abdul Rahman (1986). Political Awakening, p. 86. Pelanduk Publications. ISBN 967-978-136-4.
  2. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/4/24/nation/14044647&sec=nation
  3. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/4/24/nation/14046759&sec=nation


Preceded by
Musa Hitam
Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
1986 – 1 December 1993
Succeeded by
Anwar Ibrahim
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