Puan Sri Datin Seri Panglima Sakinah Junid (10 October 1922 – 7 September 2004) was the long-serving Dewan Muslimat's Chief of Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) for twenty years ranging from 1963–1983.
AWAS members, led by Sakinah Junid,[2] participated in a six-mile protest march against the British prohibition disallowing the use of motorised vehicles in processions.
[3] She first led the Angkatan Wanita Sedar (AWAS) Padang Rengas Branch when she was 23 years old.
Anthropologist Wazir Jahan Karim attributes the impetus for the creation of AWAS to the core leaders of the organisation: Aishah Ghani, Sakinah Junid and Shamsiah Fakeh.
[4] Early on, her work in the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) was through the female wing, known as Dewan Muslimat since its existence in 1953.