KUALA LUMPUR, May 8 -- The Indian community may be the kingmakers in the Kuala Kubu Baru (KKB) by-election this weekend as a low turnout of Malay voters is expected, according to observers.

The Straits Times news portal reported that the Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition is honing in on the 7,200 Indian voters in the Malay-majority constituency of KKB, knowing that its unlikely to get any support from the Chinese.

"The campaign from PN is directed towards targeting the Indians to support them. They can't get the Chinese vote, and they are working hard to sway Indians to vote PN for a simple majority.

"It seems like the Indian community is the kingmaker in the KKB by-election," Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia's Institute of Ethnic Studie...