Ronald Kiandee

Ronald Kiandee
Ronald Kiandee in the Polish Senate (2013)
Minister of Agriculture and Food Industries
In office
30 August 2021 – 24 November 2022
MonarchAbdullah
Prime MinisterIsmail Sabri Yaakob
DeputyAhmad Hamzah
Nik Muhammad Zawawi Salleh
Preceded byHimself
Succeeded byMohamad Sabu
(Minister of Agriculture and Food Security)
ConstituencyBeluran
In office
10 March 2020 – 16 August 2021
MonarchAbdullah
Prime MinisterMuhyiddin Yassin
DeputyAhmad Hamzah
Che Abdullah Mat Nawi
Preceded bySalahuddin Ayub
as Minister of Agriculture and Agro-based Industry
Succeeded byHimself
ConstituencyBeluran
Deputy Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat I
In office
28 April 2008 – 10 May 2018
Serving with Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar (2008–2013)
Ismail Mohamed Said (2013–2018)
MonarchsMizan Zainal Abidin
Abdul Halim
Muhammad V
Prime MinisterAbdullah Ahmad Badawi
Najib Razak
SpeakerPandikar Amin Mulia
Preceded byYusof Yacob
Succeeded byMohd Rashid Hasnon
ConstituencyBeluran
Chairman of the
Public Accounts Committee
In office
7 August 2018 – 11 April 2019
Nominated byMahathir Mohamad
Appointed byMohamad Ariff Md Yusof
DeputyWong Kah Woh
Preceded byHasan Arifin
Succeeded byNoraini Ahmad
ConstituencyBeluran
Vice President of the
Malaysian United Indigenous Party
Assumed office
23 August 2020
Serving with Radzi Jidin &
Mohd Rafiq Naizamohideen (2020–2022) &
Ahmad Faizal Azumu (since 2024)
PresidentMuhyiddin Yassin
2nd State Chairman of the
Malaysian United Indigenous Party of Sabah
Assumed office
11 December 2022
PresidentMuhyiddin Yassin
DeputyAksyah Nasrah
Preceded byHajiji Noor
Member of the Malaysian Parliament
for Beluran
Assumed office
29 November 1999
Preceded byAsmat Nungka
(BNUMNO)
Majority1,276 (1999)
Walkover (2004)
4,352 (2008)
9,988 (2013)
7,115 (2018)
1,594 (2022)
Faction represented in Dewan Rakyat
1999–2018Barisan Nasional
2018–2019Independent
2019–2020Pakatan Harapan
2020Malaysian United Indigenous Party
2020–Perikatan Nasional
Personal details
Born
Ronald Kiandee

(1961-01-10) 10 January 1961 (age 63)
Beluran, Sandakan, Crown Colony of North Borneo (now Sabah, Malaysia)
CitizenshipMalaysian
Political partyUnited Malays National Organisation of Sabah (Sabah UMNO)
(–2018)
Malaysian United Indigenous Party of Sabah (Sabah BERSATU)
(since 2019)
Other political
affiliations
Barisan Nasional (BN)
(–2018)
Pakatan Harapan (PH)
(2019–2020)
Perikatan Nasional (PN)
(since 2020)
Alma materUniversiti Putra Malaysia (BSc)
Universiti Tun Abdul Razak (MBA)
Universiti Sains Malaysia (PhD)
OccupationPolitician

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 Christian MPs of PN alongside Ali Biju.

  1. ^ Mazwin Nik Anis and Joseph Kaos Jr (15 March 2019). "Six Sabah reps who jumped from Umno get Bersatu cards". The Star. Retrieved 15 March 2019.