Malam Sambat Kaban

Malem Sambat Ka'ban (born 5 August 1958) is an Indonesian politician who served as the Forestry Minister of Indonesia from 2004 to 2009. On 1 May 2005, he was appointed as the chairman of the Crescent Star Party (PBB).

Kaban was a member of the People's Representative Council. He was a Crescent Star Party official before he was appointed by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as Forestry Minister. In addition, he has been involved in human resource development at Jakarta Public Relations. He examined the potential of economic damage from the creation of Gunung Leuser National Park in 1992.

He was Chairman of the Economic Potential Weak research team in 1993, and a researcher at the Child Exploitation Strategy assessment study of the joint venture company Pertamina in 1994.

He entered politics before the 1997 elections. The United Development Party sought to nominate him as a candidate from West Java. He declined, but the initial period of reform under Yusril Ihza Mahendra formed the Crescent Star Party, which emphasized the importance of Islamic law.