Rubin Balang

Yang Berhormat Datuk Rubin Balang PGDK JP MLA
روبين بالڠ‎
Ministerial Roles (Sabah)
1994–1996	Assistant Minister to the Chief Minister
1996–1999	Assistant Minister of Communication and Works
1999–2001	Minister of Youth, Culture and Sports Development
Vice President of the Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 February 2023 Serving with Mohd Arifin Mohd Arif & Masiung Banah
President	Hajiji Noor
Division Chairman of N43 Kemabong Branch of Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah
Incumbent
Assumed office 2023
President	Hajiji Noor
Member of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly for Kemabong
Incumbent
Assumed office 26 September 2020
Preceded by	Jamawi Ja’afar (BN–UMNO)
Majority	1,012 (2020)
In office 18/19 February 1994 – 9 May 2018
Preceded by	Esar Andamas (PBS)
Succeeded by	Jamawi Ja’afar (BN–UMNO)
Majority	1,150 (1994) 836 (1999) 2,511 (2004) 2,437 (2008) 3,032 (2013)
Faction represented in the Sabah State Legislative Assembly
1994	Parti Bersatu Sabah
1994–2018	Barisan Nasional
2020	Independent
2020–2022	Perikatan Nasional
Since 2022	Gabungan Rakyat Sabah
Personal details
Born	Rubin bin Balang (1963-03-01) 1 March 1963 (age 61) Tenom, Crown Colony of North Borneo (now Sabah, Malaysia)
Citizenship	Malaysian
Political party	United Sabah Party (PBS) (until 1994) United Malays National Organisation of Sabah (Sabah UMNO) (1994–2018) Malaysian United Indigenous Party of Sabah (Sabah BERSATU) (2019–2022) Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah (GAGASAN) (since 2023)
Other political affiliations	Barisan Nasional (BN) (1994–2018) Pakatan Harapan (PH) (2019–2020) Perikatan Nasional (PN) (2020–2022) Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) (since 2020)
Children	Riduan Rubin
Occupation	Politician

Rubin bin Balang is a Malaysian politician who has served as Member of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Kemabong from February 1994 to May 2018 and again since September 2020. He is a member and one of the Vice Presidents of the Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah (GAGASAN), a component party of the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) coalition.^[1] He is also the father of Riduan Rubin, the Independent Member of Parliament (MP) for Tenom.