Sex and politics in Malaysia


Noel Achariam

PKR president Anwar Ibrahim at the party’s annual congress in Malacca yesterday. No stranger to sexual misconduct allegations, former staffer Muhammad Yusoff Rawther is the latest to level such an accusation. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Seth Akmal, December 8, 2019.

AS stale as they have gotten for the public, sexual misconduct allegations against politicians have resurfaced, with Anwar Ibrahim targeted once again.

Former staffer Muhammad Yusoff Rawther, in a statutory declaration (SD), accuses the PKR president of committing a sexual offence against him at the latter’s home in Bukit Segambut, Kuala Lumpur, on October 2 last year.


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