The government is making its best attempts to support the people deal with with the inflation of prices of essential goods, said Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. Datuk Seri Anwar understood and thought deeply about the hardship dealt by so many amid the boosting cost of living. “There is an issue, I agree. There are problems concerning the increasing prices of goods and essentials,” he said after going to Lembaga Tabung Haji’s 60th anniversary celebration on Friday. Mr Anwar assured that the Malaysian government was attempting to handle the rising prices of goods that had impacted public splurging.
Acting Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Minister Armizan Mohd Ali and his deputy Fuziah Salleh are thinking about this problem and digging deep into it to carve out a solution which is so necessary, he said. “Several nations are dealing with prominent social unrest because of the hindrance of rice exports and the rise happening in export taxes enforced on onions, for example,” Mr Anwar said. “All these have the potential to create an economic effect and we are attempting to ease it and solve it, but we are thinking deeply about the problem. The Finance Ministry is ready to accommodate, and assistance (to the public) will go on.”