Daim says state’s development well-structured: CM
LIMBANG: Sarawak’s economic and infrastructure development has received the approval from Tun Daim Zainuddin.
The former finance minister, who is the chairman the Council of Eminent Persons, described the state’s development as well-structured when he met Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg in Kuching last week.
“It really means something to us when the Prime Minister’s advisor commented on the way we in Sarawak manage our economic development,” the Chief Minister said in his address to the people at a luncheon in conjunction with his working visit here yesterday.
The transformation towards digital economy and the unprecedented focus on digital and infrastructure development throughout the state were some of the physical and non-physical development that had been well-thought out by Sarawak for implementation within these two years as part of an overall programme to turn Sarawak into a digital high-income economy by 2030.
Later, in the afternoon, Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari flew to Lawas to chair a coordination meeting of the state-wide development projects to ensure the smooth implementation of all the projects.
Yesterday, soon upon arrival here, the chief minister’s birth town, he was briefed on the various projects costing a total of RM735 million.
At the luncheon, the local people presented a birthday cake to Abang Johari on the occasion of his 69th birthday that fell on Sunday.
He was born here in 1950 while his late father Tun Datuk Abang Openg, the first local governor of Sarawak, was serving as a native officer during the British colonial rule.
