A rough path to the top


Idris showing photographs of himself with the Razak family. He has seen the family grow as Razak

FEW people other than Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s relatives know the inside stories on the Prime Minister’s 40-year journey in politics and government service as intimately as his family confidante Datuk Idris Shaari Mat Aris.

Idris was the personal bodyguard of Najib’s father Tun Abdul Razak Hussein for 11 years until the untimely death of Malaysia’s second Prime Minister in 1976.

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