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The keynote address on Malaysia Politics and Government in the Post-2018 General Election-Change and Democratisation? focuses, first, on the issue of linking political change to democratisation. In the process, political change that Malaysia went through after the 2018 General Elections were being seen through the lense of democratisation. Many analyses proceeded from that basis, but some are now beginning to rethink whether the change that occurred in 2018 really has led to “more” democratisation. The second focus of the paper is arguing that change and democratisation may still happened but within the framework of Malaysia political system, and that the processes and events cannot really be judged based on indexes borrowed from other political system.