In conjunction with the birthday of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin this year, 1,849 people received awards and medals.

2 persons got the Seri Setia Mahkota Malaysia (SSM) which carries the title “Tun”, the most senior (although not the highest) federal award, including a posthumous Tunship for Datin Seri Endon Mahmood, the late wife of former Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. With his present wife already having a Tunship, that means “everybody in the family” got it.

The title is so prestigious that only 25 living persons at one time may hold it.

3 people got a “Tan Sri” (Panglima Mangku Negara – PMN).

41 other people also got a “Tan Sri”, although a lower ranked one (Panglima Setia Mahkota – PSM): 3 of them from Sabah:

(i) Datuk Seri Panglima Ampong Puyon (Sandakan Umno Division Chief)
(ii) Datuk Seri Panglima Dr Herman Luping (Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah – PBRS Advisor)
(iii) Brig. Jen Datuk Liew Yun Fah (Wawasan Gunung Emas Sdn Bhd Chairman)

Has there ever been so many people from Sabah bestowed a Tan Sri in a year?

On another note, please help me complete the following list of living Sabahan Tan Sris:

Tan Sri Dr Mohan Swami
Tan Sri Joseph Kurup
Tan Sri Simon Sipaun
Tan Sri Chong Kah Kiat
Tan Sri Bernard Dompok
Tan Sri Dr Herman Luping
Tan Sri Ampong Puyon
Tan Sri Liew Yun Fah
Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Hj Mulia (Parliament Speaker)
Tan Sri Suffian Koroh
Tan Sri Thomas Jayasuriya
Tan Sri Abdul Ghani Gilong
Tan Sri Steve Shim Lip Kiong (former Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak)
Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Egoh
Tan Sri Richard Malanjun (Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak)
Tan Sri Khalil Jamalul (ex State Secretary)
Tan Sri Kasitah Gaddam (former federal minister)
Tan Sri Richard Lind (ex State Secretary)
Tan Sri Peter Lo (ex Chief Minister)

If I remember correctly, there can’t be more than 75 living Malaysian Tan Sris.

Source
Daily Express, 6th June 2009

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