THE government should effectively enforce the Buy Malaysian First policy in its procurement to help strengthen the domestic market, according to Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) president Datuk Mustafa Mansur.
Most local companies have their brands nurtured and strengthened in their home market base before they could expand into the export market as the domestic market is an important foundation or anchor. The government, being the largest procurement agent in the country, must pay more attention to building up the local industries. They can be strengthened if the government buy more locally manufactured goods, he told StarBiz.