Adenan (seated, centre) with (from right) Baya, Rafidah, Awang Tengah, Jabu, Dr Ali and Morshidi with other board members of Recoda after the meeting earlier this week.

KUCHING: The approved projects across the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (SCORE) have been receiving investments totalling RM32 billion.

This was among the points highlighted during the sixth board of directors’ meeting of the Regional Corridor Development Authority (Recoda) recently.

The investment update was presented by State Planning Unit (Chief Minister’s Department) director Datu Haji Ismawi Ismuni, in his capacity as a board member of Recoda – the leading agency as far as SCORE development goes.

The Tuesday conference was overseen by Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem, who is Recoda’s board of directors’ chairman, at the State Legislative Assembly (DUN) Complex here.

On the other hand, the authority’s chief executive officer (CEO) Tan Sri Datuk Amar Wilson Baya Dandot reported on the progress achieved by Recoda over the past year, as well as on the overall development of SCORE.

“After five years of working to develop the corridor, what we have done today is epitomised by the size of the work in terms of scale, speed and quality done simultaneously across all and leading to the five growth nodes,” said Wilson.

The meeting was attended by the board’s deputy chairmen namely Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Alfred Jabu, and Resource Planning and Second Environment Minister Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan.

Current term board members are Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Dr Ali Hamsa; State Secretary Tan Sri Datuk Amar Mohamad Morshidi Abdul Ghani; State Financial Secretary Dato Sri Ahmad Tarmizi Sulaiman; Economic Planning Unit (Prime Minister’s Department) Director-General Datuk Seri Dr Rahamat Bivi Yusoff; Public Private Partnership Unit (Prime Minister’s Department) Director-General Dato Ahmad Husni Hussain; Malaysian Investment Development Authority CEO Dato’ Azman Mahmud; MH Marican Advisory Sdn Bhd chairman and CEO Tan Sri Mohd Hassan Marican as well as Treasury Secretary-General Tan Sri Dr Mohd Irwan Serigar Abdullah represented by Sarawak Federal Finance Officer Datu Jabidah Monseri at the meeting.

Recoda advisor Tan Sri Rafidah Abdul Aziz, who is senior independent non-executive chairman of AirAsia X Bhd, was also present.

After being briefed on the updates, Adenan remarked: “Despite all the challenges that we face, we have done pretty well and I look forward to see more progress being done across all five growth nodes.”

The tenure for the current board of directors is three years – from Aug 1 last year to July 31, 2017.