Sarawak PKR chief Baru Bian has welcomed the release of former deputy prime minister and de facto PKR leader Anwar Ibrahim from prison, and expressed hopes that a new era of reform would enable Sarawak to play a larger role in the country’s development.

“We have truly been liberated this GE14 and Anwar’s release is a manifestation of the freedom and ‘lightness of spirit’ that Malaysians have felt these past seven days,” he said in a statement yesterday.