Taib Envisages Sarawak As Top State In Malaysia Upon Score's Completion

   KUCHING, Dec 10 (Bernama) -- Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud envisages that Sarawak will be the top state in the country from its current standing as the third largest economy, upon completion of the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (Score) programme.

His confidence that Sarawak will achieve that status by 2030, is due to the spirit of comradeship between its top leadership and senior civil servants, and the dedication of the civil service in both the state and federal governments to focus on the national development programme.

"It is not because we are lucky but because we have learnt through lengthy service and exposure on how to adjust development programmes with our own expertise and local affairs on how to convey to the people to participate and haste the pace of development in our country," he said.

Abdul Taib said this today, when officiating the Civil Service Day 2013 and launch of the first e-government kiosk to be located at Merdeka Plaza here.

Also present were Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Alfred Jabu, State Secretary Tan Sri Mohamad Morshidi Ghani and Federal Secretary Datuk Md Yahaya Basimin.

Established as among the government's approach to achieve high income status, create more job opportunities and improve the people's living standard, Score is expected to attract RM200 billion in investments from numerous multinational companies, largely those that are involved in energy intensive sectors.

"We have made a great success by being part of Malaysia, contributing towards a more rigorous nation," noted Abdul Taib.

Earlier, Mohamad Morshidi said Sarawak, with its real gross domestic product (GDP) of RM71.9 billion, accounted for 10 per cent of the national GDP, which had increased more than 57 times from RM688 in 1963 to RM40,414 last year.

At the event, the Miri Port Authority received the 2013 state civil service quality award, namely the Sarawak Chief Minister's Gold Award for the state category, whereas the Sarawak Employees Provident Fund received the 2013 Federal Secretary Gold Award.

-- BERNAMA

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SCORE top investment draw

KUCHING: Despite the challenging global economic environment Sarawak has fared well by attracting the most proposed capital investment in the country for the first eight months of this year, Industrial Development Minister Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hassan said.

“Statistics from Mida (Malaysian Investment Development Authority) show that Sarawak leads the total capital investments with proposed value of RM7.3 billion.

“Johor is second with RM6 billion and Selangor is third with RM5.9 billion, reaffirming the Sarawak Barisan government’s efforts, good achievement and confidence in developing the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (SCORE) in pursuit of attaining a high income economy by 2020,” he said.

Awang Tengah, who is also Second Resource Planning and Environment Minister, said this when delivering his winding up speech during the State Legislative Assembly (DUN) sitting yesterday.

He added that out of the total investments of RM7.3 billion approved, RM4.2 billion or 57.5 per cent came from Domestic Direct Investments (DDI) while RM3.1 billion or 42.5 percent came from Foreign Direct Investments (FDI).

He said that these investments, comprising 60 projects, were expected to generate 5,293 employment opportunities.

He enlightened the august house that major sources of FDI came from United Arab Emirates (UAE) with an investment of RM2.2 billion in chemical product (poly silicon), Hong Kong with an investment of RM280 million mainly in basic metal (metallic silicon) and Japan with an investment of RM158 million mainly in basic metal (manganese).

In updating the House on the success of SCORE, Tengah said that as of August this year RM28.55 billion worth of investments flowed into SCORE through 14 mega projects.

“These approved investments are predominantly in the energy-intensive industries such as aluminum smelting plants, polycrystalline silicon, metallic silicon and ferro alloy projects,” he added.

Eleven of the projects are located atSamalajuIndustrial Park, out of which four companies, namely Press Metal Bintulu Sdn Bhd, Tokuyama Corporation Japan, Asia Minerals Ltd (Hong Kong) and OM Holdings Ltd (Singapore) have already commenced construction works.

Two companies, a biotech and the other an agro-based, have commenced operation at Tanjung Manis Halal Hub, while the aluminum smelting plant at Mukah has been in operation since 2009.

“These particular SCORE projects are expected to generate more than 10,000 job opportunities besides creating vast business opportunities through the spin-off effects,” he disclosed.

Meanwhile, with regard to issues raised by Baru Bian (PKR-Ba Kelalan) in the assembly during the earlier part of the sitting, Tengah said that there were 10 priority industries that were aggressively promoted and developed under the SCORE plan.

“The development of these 10 priority industries covers all sectors of the economy. In the primary sector, the focus will be the development of oil palm and planted forests, aquaculture and livestock.

“To illustrate this point, the produce of these primary industries, for example crude palm oil will move to the secondary sector for processing and manufacturing into intermediate and finished products to add more value to the local produces.

“Invariably, all these processes including delivery of products to end consumers require support services such as logistics, banking and marketing in the tertiary sector.  As such all these economic activities encompass all sectors of the economy,” explained Tengah.

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Proposed Score railway to be ready by 2015

DAMAI: The proposed rapid railway system (RRS) for the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (Score) is expected to be in place by 2015 to complement the development of its halal hub and deep-sea fishing industry, Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud said yesterday.

He said the project’s feasibility study would also take into consideration the development of the Similajau deep-sea port in Bintulu to connect the 320km regional corridor in the state’s central region up to Tanjung Manis in Mukah division.

“It is our ambition to connect the whole of Score by a railway corridor before 2030 to cut down on transportation time,” Taib told reporters after officiating at the opening of the three-day parliamentary discourse on government entitled “Scenario Planning and Change Management: Managing Score and the Future”.

However, Taib said, a detailed feasibility study needed to be conducted first as such a railway network would be costly to develop due to the region’s topography, including the soft soil of the Batang Rajang delta.

Earlier in his speech, Taib said about RM9 billion would be spent on infrastructure development in Score, which was projected to attract more than RM300 billion worth of investments in the next 30 years.

He was confident that Score, which was expected to create 1.5 million jobs by 2030, would present immense opportunities and challenges in transforming Sarawak and ensuring that its economic spin-off effects would give the people a sense of fair distribution in income.

The location of the state’s vast natural resources for renewable energy, including hydro and coal within Score, justified the development of the 70,000-sq-km corridor, which had the potential to attract heavy industries such as aluminium smelter plants, he said. — Bernama

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