Dato' Saifuddin Abdullah (born 27 January 1961) is a Malaysian politician and was the Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Temerloh constituency in Pahang from 2008 to 2013.

Saifuddin was elected to Parliament in the 2008 election,[1] and was immediately appointed as a deputy minister,[2] being cited as a future ministerial prospect.[3] He had previously been the Secretary-General of the Malaysian Youth Council.[4] After the election he was appointed as a deputy minister, and was the Deputy Minister for Higher Education in Najib Razak's first term as Prime Minister. During his ministerial tenure, Saifuddin was one of the more moderate and liberal-progressive politicians in Najib's administration.[5][6] He criticised his own government's handling of the Bersih 2.0 rally in 2011, in which over 1,600 protestors were arrested on the streets of Kuala Lumpur.[7] In early 2013, he also stood up for a student who was humiliated by a government-linked panellist at a student forum at the Universiti Utara Malaysia.

Another GREAT MALAYSIAN for championing of moderate politics...