KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 21 -- Young Malay voters find themselves feeling abandoned by political elites, cut off from local community structures, and silenced online, according to a new study by think tank Iman Research.

Its report "Orang Kita: The Politics of Acknowledgement and Resentment" suggested widespread anger towards the political and elite class, with research director Aziff Azuddin explaining the apathy was due to youths associating them with constant infighting.

"They are really tired of the elite class. The elite class could mean the upper middle class, the rich, and it could also mean politics," he said during the report's launch yesterday.

The respondents cited Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi's discharge no...