By Olivia Miwil - November 9, 2021 @ 5:59pm
KOTA KINABALU: A proposal to set up Serudong Regional Development Authority (RDA) will be tabled during the state 2022 budget assembly sitting next month.
Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor said the RDA would help to manage the new border township at Serudong, Kalabakan, that would be one of the four entry points from Kalimantan, Indonesia, to Sabah.
The other entry points are at Long Pasia, Pagalungan and Sebatik.
Hajiji, who is also the state finance minister, said the proposal would also be the catalyst for growth at Serudong.
"The State Government is ready to ensure that the border township will be developed as planned, in anticipation of major development that will take place with Indonesia's plan to move its capital to East Kalimantan.
"The border township will include industrial and commercial zones, housing and other facilities to be developed around the Customs, Immigration, Quarantine and Security (CIQS) centre," he said in a statement after being briefed by Sabah Economic Development and Investment Authority (SEDIA) director (Border Town Planning) Mursidi Sapie at Menara Kinabalu here.
The RDA's functions are to act as the local authority too and oversee infrastructure, economic and social developments.
On the CIQS centre at the Malaysia- Indonesia border in Borneo, Hajij said the project would be funded by the federal government as what Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob had said while tabling of the 12th Malaysia Plan last September.
He also said the Sabah-Kalimantan border developments would be among the talking points when the prime minister meet Indonesia President Joko Widodo during his visit to the republic.
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