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Sarawak to build international-standard sports academy

State aims to reach developed status by 2030

Updated 3 years ago · Published on 05 Dec 2020 5:34PM

Sarawak to build international-standard sports academy
Abang Johari says the Sarawak government will introduce a new policy to help youths in Sarawak focused on performing arts and sports. – Bernama pic, December 5, 2020

KOTA SAMARAHAN – Sarawak will build an international-standard sports academy equipped with the latest technology to help groom the state’s youths into world-class athletes, said Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg.

He said Sarawak was committed to further expanding the development of youths in the state in line with its mission to become a developed state by 2030.

“We see what is happening in New Zealand. It has a population of just four million people, but it is able to produce excellent athletes because it provides the best training to its youths until they become Olympic champions. 

“So my friends and I in the state government have agreed to develop a sports academy, with the cost being not too bad, for the benefit of youths in Sarawak,” he said in his speech during the state-level 2020 Youth Day celebration at the Asajaya Sports Complex.

Abang Johari said the state government would also introduce a new policy to help youths in Sarawak focused on performing arts and sports.

He said RM169 million had been set aside for the development of the performing arts to produce Sarawakian cultural art and provide training to youths talented in singing and acting.

“Among the reasons I created our own television station – TV Sarawak – apart from job opportunities, it can also popularise our dramas… if South Korea can have a drama series titled Winter Sonata, perhaps in Sarawak we’ll have one called Asajaya,” he said. – Bernama, December 5, 2020

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