KOTA BARU, Aug 21 — The government would be boosting the rural digital economy through Budget 2023 to be tabled this October, said Deputy Finance Minister I, Datuk Mohd Shahar Abdullah.
“The Finance Ministry is therefore, also expecting the digital economy prospects in 2023 to further improve, thus fulfilling the government’s desire to ensure that digitalisation also occurs in the rural areas. “In fact, with the current expansion of e-dagang, we can say that the country is on the right track to have a e-dagang market size of RM1.65 trillion by 2025.” Mohd Shahar said this to reporters after officiating at the Kadok state constituency-levelHe said the Department of Statistics Malaysia recorded a total sum of RM1.09 trillion in e-dagang transactions in 2021, up by 21.8 per cent from RM896.4 billion in 2020, the first time where the transactions exceeded RM1 trillion.