Ronald Kiandee | |
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 Ronald Kiandee in the Polish Senate (2013) | |
| Minister of Agriculture and Food Industries | |
| In office 30 August 2021 –24 November 2022 | |
| Monarch | Abdullah |
| Prime Minister | Ismail Sabri Yaakob |
| Deputy | Ahmad Hamzah Nik Muhammad Zawawi Salleh |
| Preceded by | Himself |
| Succeeded by | Mohamad Sabu (Minister of Agriculture and Food Security) |
| Constituency | Beluran |
| In office 10 March 2020 –16 August 2021 | |
| Monarch | Abdullah |
| Prime Minister | Muhyiddin Yassin |
| Deputy | Ahmad Hamzah Che Abdullah Mat Nawi |
| Preceded by | Salahuddin Ayub as Minister of Agriculture and Agro-based Industry |
| Succeeded by | Himself |
| Constituency | Beluran |
| Deputy Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat I | |
| In office 28 April 2008 –10 May 2018 | |
| Monarchs | Mizan Zainal Abidin Abdul Halim Muhammad V |
| Prime Minister | Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Najib Razak |
| Speaker | Pandikar Amin Mulia |
| Preceded by | Yusof Yacob |
| Succeeded by | Mohd Rashid Hasnon |
| Constituency | Beluran |
| Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee | |
| In office 7 August 2018 –11 April 2019 | |
| Nominated by | Mahathir Mohamad |
| Appointed by | Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof |
| Deputy | Wong Kah Woh |
| Preceded by | Hasan Arifin |
| Succeeded by | Noraini Ahmad |
| Constituency | Beluran |
| Vice President of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party | |
| Assumed office 23 August 2020 | |
| President | Muhyiddin Yassin |
| 2nd State Chairman of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party of Sabah | |
| Assumed office 11 December 2022 | |
| President | Muhyiddin Yassin |
| Deputy | Aksyah Nasrah (2022–2024) Muhammad Affan Jumahat (since 2025) |
| Preceded by | Hajiji Noor |
| Member of the Malaysian Parliament for Beluran | |
| Assumed office 29 November 1999 | |
| Preceded by | Asmat Nungka (BN–UMNO) |
| Majority | 1,276 (1999) Walkover (2004) 4,352 (2008) 9,988 (2013) 7,115 (2018) 1,594 (2022) |
| Faction represented in Dewan Rakyat | |
| 1999–2018 | Barisan Nasional |
| 2018–2019 | Independent |
| 2019–2020 | Pakatan Harapan |
| 2020 | Malaysian United Indigenous Party |
| 2020– | Perikatan Nasional |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ronald Kiandee 10 January 1961 Beluran,Sandakan,Crown Colony of North Borneo (now Sabah,Malaysia) |
| Citizenship | Malaysian |
| Political party | People's Justice Front (AKAR) (1989–2001) United Malays National Organisation of Sabah (Sabah UMNO) (2001–2018) Malaysian United Indigenous Party of Sabah (Sabah BERSATU) (since 2019) |
| Other political affiliations | United People's Justice Front (AKAR BERSATU) (1989–2001) Barisan Nasional (BN) (2001–2018) Pakatan Harapan (PH) (2019–2020) Perikatan Nasional (PN) (since 2020) |
| Alma mater | Universiti Putra Malaysia (BSc) Universiti Tun Abdul Razak (MBA) Universiti Sains Malaysia (PhD) |
| Occupation | Politician |
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. [1] 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.
