KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 19 – Majlis Amanah Rakyat (Mara) will present a development plan for the telecommunications equipment business center and gadgets in a post cabinet meeting, Ministry of Rural and Regional Development (MRRD) on Wednesday.
“The plan is equal to the Plaza Low Yat it will also affect the choice of Medan Mara in Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman as a business location to meet the needs of the public. We plan to make 80 percent of the space in the business center of Medan Mara as IT (information technology) and telecommunications equipment, and the matter will be tabled in the Cabinet meetingon Wednesday,” said its minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri.
“The ministry also proposed Mara create a subsidiary that will be fixed distributors of telecommunications equipment and gadgets of goods to traders in the fight against the middlemen,” he told the reporters after attending a briefing the Department of Orang Asli (JAKOA) at headquarters JAKOA here.
Obviously choosing the right distributor is also being evaluated in order to ensure business center which focuses on the indigenous group that really meet the needs of the long-term. He said before they open the center Syarikat telecommunications equipment, they must be prepared to ‘provider’. He added that they doesn’t want when everything is ready, the thing were incurred losses and closed later.
Asked about Mara Reserve Chairman Tan Sri Annuar Musa to open the business to non-natives, he said it is still evaluating the list of dealers and has not ruled out an opportunity for non-natives in the long run. He said they are still see a list of dealers who are interested, if any among non-natives, we will probably go to a few percent but for now they will be more focus on the indigenous past.
When asked to comment on the statement by MCA president Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, who described the business center of the development plan will affect race relations, Ismail Sabri said the center will be established in cooperation with non-natives through a variety of methods.
“They have to do homework any purpose Mara was founded as a business center, function is the same as Arcade Mara. While business is conducted by indigenous groups we keep no relation with suppliers from non-natives. Relations racial diversity that will never break. Meanwhile, Mara will also be open participation to provide opportunities for the public to choose the best name for the business center,” said Ismail Sabri.