Andrew Chen Kah Eng

Andrew Chen Kah Eng (Chinese: 曾笳恩; pinyin: Zēng Jiā'ēn) is a Malaysian politician from the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) and formerly Pakatan Rakyat (PR) opposition coalitions who has served as Leader of the Opposition of Johor since December 2022 and Member of the Johor State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Stulang since May 2013. He has also served as State Secretary of DAP of Johor from 2021 to 2023.

In the 2022 Johor state election, Chen was again renominated by DAP and PH, again an opposition coalition after its collapse of state government in February 2020, to defend the Stulang state seat. He went on to win the seat again with 12,499 votes by defeating all of his opponents Ang Boon Heng of MCA and BN who challenged him again, Yap Chiang Youis of Perikatan Nasional (PN) and Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (GERAKAN), Saiful Bahari Sahari of Parti Bangsa Malaysia (PBM) and independent Moharam Baharom with a dramatically decreased majority of 2,866 votes. PH was defeated by BN and the latter was reelected to form the state government of Johor.

In the 2021 Johor DAP election, he was elected into the Johor DAP committee as a member and was subsequently appointed as new secretary of the committee by Liew Chin Tong, who also made into the committee after receiving third highest amount of votes of 561 after Yeo Bee Yin (631) and Teo Nie Ching (531) and was reappointed as the chairman.

On 19 April 2021, for his contribution in the cross border breast milk delivery, Andrew was presented with a Malaysia Book Of Records for the Largest Cross-Border Breast Milk Relief Aid Delivery During MCO.

On 18 March 2020, the Malaysia government enforced a Movement Control Order (MCO) to curb the spread of COVID-19. The order included strict travel restrictions between Malaysia and Singapore, where many Malaysians travel to for work and social visit purposes. Since citizens from both countries were not allowed to travel freely anymore many Malaysian mothers, who are employed in Singapore, had no means to bring back their breastmilk to their babies in Malaysia. Prior to MCO, these mothers travelled regularly between the two countries to bring back the breastmilk themselves.

The study took the special task force four months to complete, and a report was submitted in January 2019.

In the 2018 Johor state election, Chen was renominated by DAP, a component party of a new Pakatan Harapan (PH) opposition coalition to defend the Stulang state seat. He went on to win the seat again with 24,002 votes by defeating Ang Boon Heng of MCA and BN with a significantly increased majority of 12,470 votes. PH also defeated BN in the election and the first change of government happened with PH replacing BN to form the new state government after being elected democratically. However, as an MLA of PH, Chen was not appointed as Member of the Johor State Executive Council (EXCO), the executive body of the Johor state government.

In July 2018, Andrew was appointed by the Johor State Government to lead a special task force to look into the traffic congestion issues in the Sultan Iskandar Building (BSI) customs, immigration and quarantine (CIQ) complex.

In the 2013 Johor state election, Chen was nominated by the Democratic Action Party (DAP), then component party of the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) opposition coalition to contest for the Stulang state seat and won the state seat with 19,799 votes by defeating Chong Chee Siong of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), a component party of the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition with 3,296 votes of majority.