KUCHING: Sarawak Economic Development Corporation (SEDC Sarawak) last Wednesday welcomed its new general manager Abdul Hadi Datuk Kadir, replacing Datuk Soedirman Aini, who has retired after serving the corporation for the past seven years.
SEDC Sarawak chairman Tan Sri Datuk Amar Abdul Aziz Husain officiated at the official handing over of duties ceremony held at Menara SEDC.
Aziz said the appointment of the new general manager augured well for the state agency which was pursuing the digital transformation of the organisation, including its subsidiary companies throughout Sarawak and overseas.
“Hadi has several years of administrative and management experience in which his last assignment was as the general manager of Harwood Timber Sdn Bhd – one of the prominent subsidiaries under the Sarawak Timber Industry Development Corporation (STIDC),” Tan Sri Abdul Aziz enthused.
“At the same time, we offer our sincere appreciation to Datuk Soedirman who had been with us for the past seven years and had been instrumental in
bringing SEDC Sarawak to a higher level of organisational excellence and progress,” he added.
Meanwhile, Hadi in his brief first address to staff members and management of SEDC called on them to continue their good work while paying tribute to his predecessor Soedirman.
“We share a common vision to transform SEDC into one of the best agencies in the state and to put it at the forefront in the development of the state’s economy and digital transformation, as envisioned by the Chief Minister of Sarawak,” he said.
“To achieve this mission and vision, we have to enhance our work performance in terms of matching the people’s expectations and have a dynamic working system which is robust, transparent and professionally driven,” said Hadi.
He also called on the internal stakeholders to uphold high level of integrity and transparency which was important for SEDC Sarawak to continue becoming a well-respected state government agency and a model agency for other states.
“One of my thrusts is to ensure that there is continuity and to re-assess whenever necessary areas that had not met the agency’s Key Performance Index (KPI). Many of these had impacted the people of Sarawak,” he said while paying tribute to his predecessor who had led the organisation to become one of the respectable agencies in Sarawak.
“I know it is challenging for me to emulate and let alone do something better than that. However, with an ever guiding chairman and members of the board, better achievements are not impossible if we continue to work together and to set a higher standard every time,” he said.
According to him, SEDC Sarawak will benchmark itself with the best peers in similar line of activities and sets its target of matching if not ahead of the existing industry standards.
“We also want to further improve the achievements of the Bumiputera entrepreneurs in all levels and to make them more competitive in line with our Chief Minister’s vision of digital economy transformation that benefits all strata of the society,” Tuan Haji Hadi said while expressing confidence in SEDC’s ability and wholeheartedness in embracing digital economy.
