In F.Allum and S.Gilmour, Handbook of Organised Crime and Politics, Chapter 26 Edward Elgar 29 March, 2019
This chapter focuses specifically on the relationship between the organisation PEKIDA and its satellites, and the former ruling party UMNO (1957-2018). It explains the phenomenon in the context of the Prime Ministers Abdullah Badawi and Najib Razak governements’ era, from 2008 to 2016. This analysis is based on extensive field research and interviews; it deliberately gives a greater place to ethnography and analytical descriptions in order to give a clear perspective to a wider audience.