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Chief Minister, Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud, for example met Chinese businessman from Sibu running a shoe factory in Gold Coast in Africa in 1989. He has also met a Chinese architect, who successfully designed a horse racing centre that provides free rental to horse owners in Dubai.
He partners with an Arab entrepreneur to breed good quality horses and sell them in millions of dollars all over the world for racing. The Arabs are famous for breeding good quality horses.
He also comes to know a number of Sarawakians operating shipbuilding factories near Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Qartar in the Gulf. Besides, there are some Chinese, Malays and Ibans working in North Sea in England. They work in the platforms to drill the oil from the North Deep Sea. That shows how good Sarawakians can be. This is the unique characteristic of Sarawakians. Many of them can go to difficult countries and make a living and create leadership out of themselves.
This is happening and will happen more and more as the people used to be poor and had to fight for difficulties. Hence, they have the determination to become very good in our own places too. Obviously, they have been able to understand how to get opportunities and are prepared to work hard to achieve targets.
Generally, there will be bigger things to come provided the people can continue to work together to maintain peace and stability in the country. The people whether they are Chinese, Melanau, Malay, Iban and others must learn to work together as they cannot have a country where they fight among them. The State cannot produce quality products nor do high management kind of business in a chaotic environment and situation. Hence, the people must switch their way of thinking and forget that they come from various ethnic groups.
The State and the country have reached a level of development where there are ample of opportunities for the people to make better things to sell to the world. It can be projected that the development ahead within the framework of 1Malaysia will move the State and the country toward a different kind of Malaysia that will abolish all discriminations. It is the kind of Malaysia that the politics of development at the State level has been working for namely to get all the races to come together.
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The State, with the politics of development, envisions that the people will be more united in the year 2020. All the ethnic and religious groups will be able to benefit from whatever they do as they will be more efficient and co-operative and have better team work among them.
However, they must look forward far ahead into the future. After all life is not a process of looking backward. If the people look backward, they will stumble and fall. But if they look forward, they will walk straight and faster as they can see the roads ahead.
For example, Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud, says if he were to look backward in 1963, he would have no hope of helping the people; then everything was backward. Most of the people were poor; those in the rural areas had to walk barefooted.
He is happy to see that what he talked about in the 80s can be seen happening now. By the same token, what he believes what he talks about now will materialize in the next 20 years from now. And that is what the people will have in the next 20 years. Generally, Malaysians will have better income, they will be more united and Malaysia will be a better country.
Undeniably, Sarawak has been experiencing positive changes and extensive economic development, since Independence more so during the past 30 years. The State government, during the last 20 years, has been able to open up more than two million acres of palm oil estates that can earn billion worth of revenue for Sarawak.
Generally, the local people regardless of whether they are Chinese, Malays, Iban, Bidayuh, Orang Ulu and others, have been able to send their children, hundreds of them every year to pursue tertiary education. There were very few of them in the old days; then young people had to walk barefooted or using sandals to schools.
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Predictably, the State’s future depends on efforts to develop the human capital starting from the schools. For this reason, as Sarawak started late in education, conscientious efforts have to be made to give extra help to children. The Federal government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop the infrastructure, provide electricity and improve amenities in rural schools.
Essentially, the government must endeavor to give good education to the people as part of the transformation of the economy from medium income to high income towards the year 2020 and beyond. Generally, the industries being developed will need more mechanics, fitters, accounting clerks, ICT workers and those with other skills and expertise. They will be able to get better salaries than the general workers.
The Halal hub industries being developed in Tanjung Manis are to produce food, medicine and other products to meet a very high standard of hygiene. They are not only meant for Muslims but anybody can work in them to produce Halal food, pharmaceutical products and other products.
Essentially, Halal is the National brand to reach out into the Halal market of the world, which is projected to worth more than US1 trillion by the year 2020. For example, the people don’t have to be Muslims to produce high class fish. However, they must ensure that they don’t use chemical methods to make low quality products.
The chickens at Tanjung Manis Halal hub will not be injected with anti-biotic. Instead, they are being fed with certain kind enzyme to make them immune to diseases. That means the Halal hub will produce better meats from chickens that can get good prizes in the world market.
The Government has been making conscientious efforts to help poor people to get good nutrition in their food. We have been able to abolish malnutrition among the people. We want children to have good nutrition so that they can learn better and pursue good education. It is the only way to abolish distinction between one race to another or one religion to another; the distinction should not exist. The distinction between the people who want to work in towns those who want to work in rural areas will be gone. The people must have the freedom and sense of happiness much wider than what we used to have before.
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Essentially, we have to give good education to the people as part of the transformation of the economy from medium income to high income towards the year 2020 and beyond. It also manifests the process of streamlining the government machinery to meet the challenges ahead. Undeniably, Sarawak has been experiencing positive changes and extensive economic development, since Independence more so during the past 30 years.
However, Semenanjung Malaysia, with a population of more than 20 million has been able to set up factories that can provide plenty of jobs for the people. For this reason, the industrialization program, mainly import substitution industry to produce goods to substitute the imported ones from outside, could start in Semenanjung Malaysia. However, the program, though it has been successful, can no longer be sustained with the increasing desire of the people to uplift the standard and quality of their life.
The program of import substitution industry cannot be carried out in Sarawak as it has a population of 2.5 million only. As the market is small, Sarawak unlike Semenanjung Malaysia, has very limited capacity to set up factories to produce goods to substitute those being imported from overseas. For this reason, the State Government has to implement the industrialization policy by exploiting the rich natural resources that are available locally starting with timber.
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