Jum Jainudin Akbar (3 September 1963 – 11 November 2016) was a Filipina politician who served two terms as provincial governor of Basilan.

[1] She was the widow of assassinated Congressman Wahab Akbar.

Akbar, along with other Mindanao governors, had a hand in supporting the Bangsamoro Basic Law.

She pledged a campaign promise of providing free rubber trees, fertilizers and polybags to farmers of the region.

[4] Akbar handled the evacuation and retrieval operations at Al Barka after the July 2007 massacre of Philippine Army troops in a rebel ambush during her tenure.