Liwan Lagang

Liwan Lagang
State Deputy Minister of Utilities and Telecommunication of Sarawak
(Telecommunication)
Assumed office
4 January 2022
Serving with
Abdul Rahman Junaidi (Ulities)
MinisterJulaihi Narawi
GovernorAbdul Taib Mahmud Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar
PremierAbang Abdul Rahman Johari Abang Openg
State Deputy Minister of Utilities of Sarawak
(Rural Electricity)
In office
21 August 2019 – 3 January 2022
Serving with
Abdul Rahman Junaidi (Water Supply)
MinisterStephen Rundi Utom
GovernorAbdul Taib Mahmud
Chief MinisterAbang Abdul Rahman Johari Abang Openg
Preceded byAbdul Rahman Junaidi
ConstituencyBelaga
State Deputy Minister of Utilities of Sarawak
(Water Supply)
In office
6 May 2017 – 21 August 2019
Serving with
Abdul Rahman Junaidi (Rural Electricity)
MinisterStephen Rundi Utom
GovernorAbdul Taib Mahmud
Chief MinisterAbang Abdul Rahman Johari Abang Openg
Succeeded byAbdul Rahman Junaidi
ConstituencyBelaga
State Deputy Minister of River Transportation and Safety of Sarawak
In office
21 May 2016 – 6 May 2017
MinisterJames Jemut Masing
(State Minister of Infrastructure Development and Transport)
GovernorAbdul Taib Mahmud
Chief MinisterAdenan Satem
(2016–2017)
Abang Abdul Rahman Johari Abang Openg
(2017)
Succeeded byJerip Susil
ConstituencyBelaga
State Deputy Minister of Culture and Heritage of Sarawak
In office
30 September 2011 – 1 March 2014
MinisterWilliam Mawan Ikom
GovernorAbang Muhammad Salahuddin
Chief MinisterAbdul Taib Mahmud
ConstituencyBelaga
Youth Chief of the
Parti Rakyat Sarawak
PresidentJames Jemut Masing
Preceded byMong Dagang
Succeeded bySnowdan Lawan
Member of the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly
for Belaga
Assumed office
20 May 2006
Preceded byStanley Ajang Batok
(BNPBDS)
Majority227 (2006)
2,928 (2011)
3,686 (2016)
2,245 (2021)
Personal details
Born1957 (age 66–67)
Crown Colony of Sarawak
CitizenshipMalaysian
Nationality Malaysia
Political partyParti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS)
Other political
affiliations
Barisan Nasional (BN)
(–2018, allied : since 2020)
Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS)
(since 2020)
Perikatan Nasional (PN)
(allied : since 2020)
OccupationPolitician

Datuk Liwan Lagang is a Malaysian politician from the Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS), a component party of the ruling Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) coalition who has served as the State Deputy Minister of Telecommunication of Sarawak in charge of Telecommunication in the GPS state administration under Premier Abang Abdul Rahman Johari Abang Openg and State Minister Julaihi Narawi since January 2022 and Member of the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Belaga since May 2006.