{"id":6728,"date":"2020-11-07T21:11:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T13:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=6728"},"modified":"2020-11-07T21:11:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T13:11:59","slug":"allocation-increase-shows-govts-national-security-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=6728","title":{"rendered":"Allocation increase shows govt\u2019s national security commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 7\u00a0&#8212; The Ministry of Defence has received an increase in\u00a0allocation at RM15.86 billion as announced in the 2021 Budget which clearly demonstrates the government\u2019s deep commitment to national defense priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senior Defence Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said that this is an increase of 1.8 per cent or RM280 million compared with the previous year&#8217;s RM15.58 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/b51e3a3387e540ba906b5c8becda66845fa6946fd85e2-1024x588.jpg\" alt=\"allocation\" class=\"wp-image-6729\" width=\"444\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/b51e3a3387e540ba906b5c8becda66845fa6946fd85e2-1024x588.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/b51e3a3387e540ba906b5c8becda66845fa6946fd85e2-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/b51e3a3387e540ba906b5c8becda66845fa6946fd85e2-768x441.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/b51e3a3387e540ba906b5c8becda66845fa6946fd85e2-174x100.jpg 174w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/b51e3a3387e540ba906b5c8becda66845fa6946fd85e2-350x201.jpg 350w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/b51e3a3387e540ba906b5c8becda66845fa6946fd85e2-800x459.jpg 800w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/b51e3a3387e540ba906b5c8becda66845fa6946fd85e2.jpg 1040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that this was due to the uncertain security environment as well as non-traditional security threats. These two factors require a high level of readiness of the Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added that a significant increase was the allocation for development expenditure (DE) at RM4.50 billion, an increase of RM1.42 billion or 46.1 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe allocation for operating expenditure (OE) is RM11.35 billion, a drop of RM1.14 billion or 9.1 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis reduction is due to the large increase in DE allocations for maintenance and upgrading of key assets of the MAF to ensure its readiness is always at the highest level,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/news.php?id=1898533\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 7\u00a0&#8212; The Ministry of Defence has received an increase in\u00a0allocation at RM15.86&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/b51e3a3387e540ba906b5c8becda66845fa6946fd85e2.jpg",1040,597,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/b51e3a3387e540ba906b5c8becda66845fa6946fd85e2-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/b51e3a3387e540ba906b5c8becda66845fa6946fd85e2-300x172.jpg",300,172,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/b51e3a3387e540ba906b5c8becda66845fa6946fd85e2-768x441.jpg",640,368,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/b51e3a3387e540ba906b5c8becda66845fa6946fd85e2-1024x588.jpg",640,368,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/b51e3a3387e540ba906b5c8becda66845fa6946fd85e2.jpg",1040,597,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/b51e3a3387e540ba906b5c8becda66845fa6946fd85e2.jpg",1040,597,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/b51e3a3387e540ba906b5c8becda66845fa6946fd85e2.jpg",1040,597,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/b51e3a3387e540ba906b5c8becda66845fa6946fd85e2.jpg",1024,588,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/b51e3a3387e540ba906b5c8becda66845fa6946fd85e2.jpg",720,413,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=524\" rel=\"category\">Nation<\/a>","tag_info":"Nation","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6730,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728\/revisions\/6730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}