00:04I always like to ask this question, what time is it?
00:08I know I'm a bit late just now, but that was because horrible jam outside and I came from KL.
00:15But I asked what time is it to take stock of our situation?
00:21Recently I heard a YouTube video of a speech by an ASEAN statesman, former foreign minister of Singapore, Mr George
00:36Yeo.
00:37He compared the current geopolitical situation with an analogy from this very famous novel from China called The Three-Body
00:52Problem by Liu Zixing.
00:55If you have not read the novel, you can watch the series on Netflix.
01:00I've only watched the first season, I don't understand a thing.
01:03The Three-Bodies Problem.
01:04Basically it describes a planet with three suns.
01:08We only have one sun, imagine three suns.
01:11So the gravitational pull between all these planetary bodies will cause a lot of chaos.
01:17There's a lot of unpredictability, you can't predict the climate, you can't predict the weather, you can't predict anything.
01:24So there's basically utter chaos.
01:27So there is some sort of predictability.
01:29But today, when we are dealing with a multi-polar world, you don't have to read Liu Zixing Santhi or
01:37Three-Body Problem.
01:39You imagine our roundabout, and I'm not talking about KR roundabout, I'm talking about Penang roundabout, right?
01:48You have your factory in Penang.
01:51Imagine every car, lorries, buses, big and small, motorcycles, bicycles, all trying to get into the roundabout to get into
02:00their own direction.
02:01No lines, no lanes, no traffic light.
02:05Almost like no rules, right?
02:07So this is the situation.
02:09If you are not careful, there will be a collision.
02:10I have consistently called for our growth model in Malaysia to be transformed from a low cost, low price, what
02:19I call made in Malaysia model,
02:22into a high value, high growth made by Malaysia model.
02:27And when I came to the ministry, I have decided to direct the focus of our ministry into just one
02:37single mission.
02:39That is, to make Malaysian businesses great,
02:43Hebatkan perniagaan Malaysia.
02:45Rang Malaysia chieh, kenjia chiantak.
02:51I know time is not with me, right?
02:54Not because it's going to be a change of government, but because the election schedule is coming on us.
02:59So I know time is not slow.
03:00I said, forget about other things, just do one thing alone.
03:04That is to make Malaysian businesses great.
03:06I aligned 15,000 staff, civil servants, including SME Corp, represented by Saudara Rizal here,
03:15to just this one task, via a framework of what I call ABCD strategy.
03:23And to realise this mission,
03:26to realise this mission,
03:27I'm proud to say that this whole year,
03:30we're embarking on what I call Power Up 10,000 campaign.
03:34Under this campaign, 5 KPIs.
03:37Number one, we will release up to 15 billion ringgit in low-cost financing into the SME market.
03:45This is an increase from last year, about 10 billion.
03:50Number two, we target to help at least 10,000 Malaysian businesses at various levels to scale up.
03:58Number three, we will deploy at least 100 million ringgit this year to train up to 100,000 entrepreneurs
04:06in various capacity building programs.
04:10Because when I talked to the bank, I was talking to the bank on Monday.
04:13Miss Emily was there.
04:15I spoke to 16 top bankers in this country.
04:18Two weeks ago, I spoke to the capital market.
04:20I said, all of you have to gear up, have to power up, help us to help the SMEs.
04:25Some of them said, we want to help the SMEs.
04:27But governance is a problem.
04:29We want to help the SMEs.
04:30Family-owned business, decision-making is very confusing.
04:34We want to help SMEs.
04:35Paperwork is not in place.
04:36So that's why I said, we want to deploy at least 100 million
04:40to train up in terms of capacity building for 100,000 entrepreneurs.
04:44Number four, we aim to help the SME sector
04:48to achieve a value added of beyond 750 billion ringgit this year.
04:55Basically, we want to help SME to push up SME sector GDP
04:59to beyond 750 billion from about 600 over a billion.
05:03And finally, in the medium term, even if I cannot do it this year,
05:10the medium term aspiration is to create what I call
05:15the 100 times 100 Madani Club,
05:18where we want to help at least 100 Malaysian companies
05:22to hit 100 million ringgit in the medium term.
05:27This is power up 10,000.
05:29Very practical.
05:30We are not going to waste time on other things.
05:32We're just going to focus our attention
05:34to make Malaysian businesses great.
05:36As of February of 2026,
05:40I have announced about 4 billion in financing
05:44and I'm glad to say that 2 billion ringgit has been approved
05:48in this power up financing to companies across the country.
05:53We're not going to waste time on African American food.
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06:00means that we're not going to be admitted to $30,000 before we go.
06:01We're going to bounce on the middle of that.
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