Menteri Besar Terengganu Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar berkata kerajaan negeri akan terus berusaha menuntut baki pembayaran royalti minyak atau wang ihsan dianggarkan mencecah lebih RM1 bilion.
00:00Prime Minister Ahmad Samsuddin Mokhtar said the government will continue to demand a payment of oil royalties, or ISAN, which is estimated to be more than one billion ringgit.
00:14He said it includes about 700 million ringgit that have not been paid by the federal government since last year.
00:23Samsuddin said he and the state government themselves do not understand the reason behind the increase, but will continue to demand the royalties.
00:33In a statement last year, Samsuddin said that the state government has not yet received an estimate of one billion ringgit in oil royalties, which should be received in 2023 from the federal government.
00:47Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, in the PRK Kemaman campaign, explained that the ISAN royalties are still enjoyed by the people of Terengganu, but are directly distributed through the Peasants' Welfare Project without going through the state government.
01:02In fact, he said that the state-sponsored construction spending has increased to 1.59 billion ringgit this year.
