Angesichts der Popularität dieser Bewegung an der Basis beschloss die Regierung des damaligen Premierministers Mahathir Mohamad 1982, Anwar Ibrahim in die United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) hinzuzuwählen, die führende Partei in der Regierungskoalition des Landes.
Faced with the grassroots popularity of this movement, by 1982 the government of then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed decided to co-opt Anwar Ibrahim into his United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the dominant party within the country’s ruling coalition.