Rubin Balang

Yang Berhormat Datuk
Rubin Balang
PGDK ASDK JP MLA
Yang Berhormat Datuk Rubin Balang PGDK ASDK JP MLA
State Minister of Rural Development of Sabah
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1 December 2025
Governor	Musa Aman
Chief Minister	Hajiji Noor
Assistants	Samad Jambri &; Juil Nuatim;
Preceded by	Jahid Jahim
Constituency	Kemabong
Past Ministerial Roles (Sabah)
1994–1996	Assistant Minister to the Chief Minister
1996–1998	Assistant Minister of Infrastructure Development
1998–2001	Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports
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) ; 2,129 (2025)
	In office; 18 February 1994 – 10 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)
Vice President of ; 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
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; 1 March 1963; Kemabong village, Tenom, Crown Colony of North Borneo (now Sabah, Malaysia)
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) ; (2020–2022) ; 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

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Rubin bin Balang (born 1 March 1963) is a Malaysian politician who has served the State Minister of Rural Development of Sabah since December 2025 in the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) state administration under Chief Minister Hajiji Noor, as well 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 Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah (GAGASAN), a component party of the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) coalition. He is also the father of Riduan Rubin, the Independent Member of Parliament (MP) for Tenom.