Tenom folks hope for stepped-up growth, says YB
Published on: Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Riduan said he and his constituents are looking forward to better days under a unity government spearheaded by Hajiji.
Tenom: With the reshuffle of the State Cabinet, the people of Tenom can now expect the district to see accelerated growth in the near future.Tenom Member of Parliament Riduan Rubin said Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor is now in the position again to look into the problems, and prospects of Tenom and the State in general.
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“The development issues in my district is a matter of priority to Sabah especially with the relocation of Indonesia’s capital to Kalimantan,” the first timer parliamentarian said.
The ongoing developments our neighbours are going through he said, will surely generate many economic opportunities for the constituents bordering Kalimantan.
In congratulating the Chief Minister and the members of the newly reshuffled State Cabinet, Riduan said he and his constituents are looking forward to better days under a unity government spearheaded by Hajiji.
“The CM had acknowledge Tenom’s huge potential in the agriculture and tourism sector… he (Hajiji) has been a commanding figure in leading the government machinery and communities to achieve the ambitions of the Sabah Maju Jaya (SMJ) roadmap,” Riduan stressed, describing the Chief Minister as a visionary leader.
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According to him, the folks in Tenom are confident that the return to political stability will pave way for an exciting chapter for Tenom.
No one can deny the importance Tenom hold as a gateway for Sabahans seeking a higher income, Riduan said.
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Meanwhile, the idea of the Indonesian capital having been somewhere other than Jakarta is nothing new.
The country’s first President, Sukarno suggested in 1957, a purpose-built capital located in the country’s geographic centre in the city of Palankaraya in Central Kalimantan.
This plan was abandoned, and Jakarta was declared the Capital in the ensuing 1960s. Indonesia’s sixth President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono also floated the idea of a new political and administrative centre due to Jakarta’s overpopulation problems.
The latest push for the new capital by President Joko Widodo came shortly after he won his second five-year term in 2019.
Widodo stated that the relocation of the new capital was to address Indonesia’s economic inequality and to relieve Jakarta and the island of Java where it is located, of some of the burdens they bear.
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