Harap Ekonomi Negara Pulih, Terpenting Adalah Ekonomi Rakyat – Ahmad Maslan

KUALA LUMPUR, 25 Jun – Ekonomi negara diharap akan pulih suatu ketika nanti dan yang terpenting bagi pandangan Ahli Parlimen Pontian Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan adalah ekonomi rakyat.

“Dapatkah mereka hidup seharian dengan baik? Pekerjaan adakah setaraf dengan kelulusan dan cara mengatasi pengangguran,” kata Setiausaha Agung UMNO itu di Twitter pagi tadi.

Ahmad berkata demikian mengulas mengenai laporan media yang berkata pertumbuhan ekonomi Malaysia diunjurkan menurun kepada 4.5 peratus tahun ini berbanding 6.0 peratus yang diunjurkan April lalu oleh Bank Dunia.

Ahli Ekonomi Kanan Bank Dunia, Shakira Teh Sharifuddin berkata, penurunan itu berikutan peningkatan semula kes COVID-19 dan pelaksanaan sekatan pergerakan yang memberi kesan jangka pendek kepada ekonomi negara serta pelaksanaan semula Perintah Kawalan Pergerakan (PKP) dijangka akan memberi kesan ketara kepada penggunaan swasta termasuk perbelanjaan pengguna.

Oleh kerana itu ujar Ahmad, kerajaan memainkan peranan penting membantu ekonomi rakyat dengan memberi moratorium automatik untuk golongan B40, M40 dan juga perusahaan kecil dan sederhana.

Dalam ciapannya juga, Ahmad berkata ekonomi rakyat penting ketika PKP ini seperti bantuan tunai kepada B40 dan juga ada kumpulan M40 yang kini sudah menjadi B40.

“Selain moratorium automatik, pengurangan sewa, diskaun bil utiliti, pengeluaran KWSP (Kumpulan Wang Simpanan Pekerja), subsidi upah antara cadangan-cadangan,” katanya.

Selain itu sarannya, menjadi bangsa usahawan secara dalam talian juga baik untuk dilatih agensi-agensi. – UMNO ONLINE

People’s economy needs more attention – Ahmad

KUALA LUMPUR, June 25 – Secretary-General Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan hopes the rakyat economy will recover soon tandem with the national index.

Describing how paramount it is for the people’s economy to bounce back, he said: “Will they ever manage their daily survival again? Will employment matching their tertiary education be made as a criteria to overcome unemployment?,” he said in his Twitter account today.

He was commenting on media report that the national economic growth was forecast to dip to 4.5 per cent compared with 6.0 per cent set by the World Bank last April.

The Bank’s senior economists Shakira Teh Sharifuddin said the downward trend is forecast amid rising Covid-19 which will hurt the economy in short term and the Movement Control Order (MCO) that suffocates its activity and shrinking consumers’ expenditure.

In this aspect, Ahmad says the government plays a leading role to assist the people’s economy by giving an automatic moratorium to the B40, M40 and the small and medium entrepreneurs.

He also cited that the people’s economy is more important during the MCO and their dire need is cash assistances, especially the B40 and some in M40 category who are now fell into the B40 income bracket.

“Apart from the moratorium, they also need rental cut, utilities discount, EPF withdrawal and others,” he said.

The Pontian MP also urges the respective agencies to provide necessary training to online entrepreneurs.

 

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