Budget 2023: Home, Defence Ministries get RM35.7bil to beef up security, defence


KUALA LUMPUR: The Home Affairs Ministry and the Defence Ministry have been allocated RM18.3bil and RM17.4bil, respectively, under Budget 2023.

Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz, when tabling the Supply Bill 2023 in the Dewan Rakyat Friday (Oct 7), said that the government's focus next year would be the purchase and maintenance of Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) assets, with an allocation of almost RM4bil.

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