Wong Chin Huat

Wong Chin Huat is a Malaysian political scientist, scholar, analyst, activist, commentator, columnist, observer and lecturer.

In late 2011, he helped form a new NGO called "KillTheBill" which organised a series of creative protests during weekends for two months to oppose the restrictive Peace Assembly Bill.

His first NGO work was as the Executive Secretary of the Malaysian Chinese Organisation Election Appeal Committee, a lobby which advocated for broad institutional and policy reform and soon earned the wrath of the Government.

Prior to his pursuit of PhD in UK, he worked for a Chinese-community reformist group Suqiu (The Malaysian Chinese Organization Election Appeals Committee) as its executive secretary from May 2000 to March 2001.

On the eve of the 1999 general elections, Wong and a few other writers like Teoh Kian Hoon, Fong Wai Foong, Teh Hoon Seng, Lee Wing Keat and the late Ng Boon Jieh launched a trilingual declaration of citizen awareness titled "People are the Boss", using simple business language to explain the concept of democracy.

Formulated to counter Dr Mahathir's argument that people should be thankful to the government, the concept is now widely used ten years later, even by Barisan Nasional leaders.

The Bersih movement launched 1BlackMalaysia campaign on 5 May 2009 as an act of civil disobedience in protesting to what it called as an "ongoing Perak coup" by Barisan Nasional.

[9] While jogging in the morning of 9 June 2012, Wong Chin Huat was allegedly attacked by 5 young men riding motorbikes.