Mohammed Taufiq Johari

Mohammed Taufiq bin Johari (Jawi: محمّد توفيق بن جوهري; born 6 March 1996) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Minister of Youth and Sports since December 2025 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sungai Petani since November 2022. He is a member and the Division Chief of Sungai Petani of the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition. He is the son of the 11th Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat and former Sungai Petani MP Johari Abdul. He is also the sole government MP in the "Malay Belt". He is presently the youngest Cabinet minister in the Anwar Ibrahim cabinet and MP, informally the Baby of the House of the Dewan Rakyat, at the age of 29 years, 290 days.

Mohammed Taufiq was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 6 March 1996. He is the sixth child of Johari and Noraini Mohd who had eight children together. He has seven siblings. He attended school at Gombak High School, Selangor before furthering his studies at the Bandung Islamic University to obtain his Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree.

Mohammed Taufiq served as the Ketua Pemuda Pakatan Harapan Kedah, Ketua Angkatan Muda Keadilan Kedah and Ketua Angkatan Muda Keadilan Sungai Petani.^[1] He won in the last 2022 Malaysian general election for Sungai Petani seat. On May 2025, Mohammed Taufiq served as one of the Vice Youth Chiefs of PKR, as he won in the PKR leadership election.

On 16 December 2025, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim announced that Mohammed Taufiq Johari would be the new Minister of Youth and Sports, replacing Hannah Yeoh.^[2] On the next day, Mohammed Taufiq Johari, along with 15 new ministers and deputy ministers, took the oath of office at Istana Negara in front of the current Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar.^[3]

In the 2022 general election, Johari Abdul named his son, Mohammed Taufiq Johari as his successor for the Sungai Petani seat in the Malaysian Parliament. Mohammed Taufiq, who is the Head of the Kedah Angkatan Muda Keadilan (AMK), informed that he had received a letter of notification from the party to contest in the seat held by his father. Johari has been defending the Sungai Petani seat since 2008 and in GE14, he who is also a member of the Kedah State Legislative Assembly (ADUN) for Gurun got 45,532 votes, beating three other candidates with a majority of 21,569. Mohammed Taufiq won the seat by defeating Robert Ling Kui Ee (PN), Shahanim Mohamad Yusoff (BN), Marzuki Yahya (GTA) and Tan Chow Kang (PRM) and got a slim majority of only 1,115 votes.^[4]

The Malaysia Corruption Watch (MCW) has called on Mohammed Taufiq to provide official documentation to substantiate his claim of holding a medical doctoral title. In response to growing public concerns, the MCW emphasized that academic titles, especially those such as "Doctor," should be validated through formal, recognized qualifications. The organisation stressed the need for transparency to prevent misleading the public regarding academic credentials, especially when individuals holding influential positions make such claims.^[5]

On 9 March 2024, he married 26-year-old Fathiya Ainul Mardhiyah Andri Nopendra of Indonesia in a wedding ceremony held at the Sungai Petani Municipal Council (MPSPK) hall which was attended by his parents, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, Minister of Home Affairs Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, Minister of Domestic Trade and Costs of Living Armizan Mohd Ali, President of the Dewan Negara Mutang Tagal, Inspector-General of Police Razarudin Husain, other MPs and foreign dignitaries.^[6]

• Malaysia
  • Recipient of the 17th Yang di-Pertuan Agong Installation Medal (2025)

• Members of the Dewan Rakyat, 15th Malaysian Parliament

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