KUCHING: Persatuan Melayu Sarawak (PMS) was formed to empower four important aspects of the Islam community in the state.
According to PMS Yang Dipertua (YDP) Datuk Bolhassan Di, the four aspects are education, social, religion and economy.
He said that even though the association is named after ‘Melayu’, the development of Muslims of other races such as the Chinese and Iban, are also taken into the association’s concerns.
Aside from that, he also said that the establishment of the association was to provide support and advisory to policies implemented by the current state government led by the Chief Minister, Datuk Amar Johari Tun Abang Haji Openg.
“After his 100 days as the Chief Minister, he has introduced various policies that benefit the people and that he has a vision of shaping a new economic activity for the state.
“This is something very beneficial to the state and PMS will definitely continue its support towards such policies. However, if there are some policies which are deemed to be not beneficial, PMS will respond accordingly through the right channel,” said Bolhassan.
He made the comment in a press conference held at the Samudera Hotel in Satok yesterday accompanied by the main committee of PMS.
Bolhassan then emphasised on the Digital Economy, which is one of the main focuses of Johari, and that such direction would lead Sarawak to compete better globally.
“Through this, our people will be more educated, both in the urban and rural areas of how we could make use of technology to escalate our economic standard.
“Hence, we at PMS will be able to assist the government to achieve any agenda that they have planned to develop our beloved Sarawak,” said Bolhasaan.
Since its establishment on 4 January this year, PMS now a total of 1,500 members across the state and are targeting to register a total of 50,000 members by the end of this year.
Meanwhile, Secretary General of PMS, Abang Hadera Lee said that PMS will be organising various programmes to engage the community so that it can gain more members.
“Lifetime membership fee is RM10 per person for both Muslim men and women above the age of 18.
“More information can be enquired from our website at www.persatuanmelayusarawak.com and forms can also be retrieved there. Registrations can also be made through text message or email,” said Hadera.
