PETALING JAYA: Malaysia’s defence spending, which will see a projected decline of 40% from 2019-2021, trails behind many South-East Asian countries, and security experts feel that the government should consider increasing the defence budget.
This follows the proposal to set the country’s military spending to at least 1% of the country’s annual gross domestic product (GDP).
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