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FOREWORD BY MINISTER IN THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPARTMENT wealth of Bumiputera is significantly elevated through capacity building and increased Bumiputera participation in high value-adding economic sectors, and especially through the exploration of new and strategic industries. With this, Bumiputera will become the catalyst for national development. In our pursuit of implementing TPB2030, Malaysia and the whole world at large is facing an unprecedented crisis in the form of the COVID-19 pandemic that has caused and has almost crippled the stability of the global social, economic, and political landscape. Malaysia has been in a position where people have to persevere to ensure their survival. Consequently, TPB2030 has laid plans to revive, restart, and rejive the economy. The initiatives and development programmes in TPB2030 will give focus to sectors, and selected processes that will produce visible results. Certainly, there is no mission that is impossible for us to achieve if we strive together with great resilience to make Malaysia a regional economic powerhouse. Collectively, we can make all the aspirations in TPB2030 come true. The success of this road map is the success of Bumiputera as a whole. The empowerment of the Bumiputera agenda is based on the New Economic Policy (NEP) which was introduced in 1970. It was one of the strategies used by the Government of Malaysia to address the apparent imbalances in economic participation and wealth distribution across the Malaysian society. Efforts under the NEP have continued under the National Development Policy (NDP) based on the premise of strong economic growth while ensuring equitable wealth distribution amongst the people of Malaysia. To ensure that the Malaysian economy continues to grow from strength to strength, the Government has introduced Pelan Transformasi Bumiputera and Transformasi Kesejahteraan Bumiputera . Both of these plans were rolled out based on the requirements of the economic situation then, and have since been the main strength and stay of the development of Bumiputera participation in striving to achieve the goal of high income country status. Recently, Wawasan Kemakmuran Bersama 2030 (WKB2030) was introduced by the Government as a long term plan for the nation. It serves as a continuation of the agendas introduced in the Wawasan 2020. The WKB2030 aims to ensure that Malaysia becomes a nation that achieves sustainable growth, encourages inclusiveness, while ensuring fair and equitable distribution for all. In realising the importance of Bumiputera participation in WKB2030, the Government has come up with a new 10–year roadmap titled Tindakan Pembangunan Bumiputera 2030 (TPB2030) with the aim of reshaping and addressing the ongoing imbalances in the Malaysian socioeconomic scene. The visions of TPB2030 can be realised if the overall YB Datuk Dr Abd Latiff Ahmad Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Special Functions) Forewords 05