KUALA LUMPUR: Newly-appointed Bernama chairman Datuk Abdul Rahman Sulaiman wants the Malaysian national news agency to be a leader in information dissemination in the country.The news agency should rise to the occasion and play its role as the leader and not as a follower, he said when met during his first visit to Bernama as a chairman yesterday.
Abdul Rahman, 64, is the 10th chairman of Bernama. His appointment took effect on Feb 1.
He said Bernama should strive to explain government policies in no uncertain terms.
“This is a central agency, so it is only natural for us to contribute towards realising the national agenda.
“In the context of democracy, we can say that Bernama is an agency of the people, by the people and for the people, and the government of the day is chosen by the people; so it is only natural that we project its policies,” he said.
For instance, Abdul Rahman said, among the government’s policies was to take Malaysia out of the middle-income trap and turn it into a high-income nation.
“So we have to play our role in realising this objective.
“The same goes to the 1Malaysia vision,” he said. — Bernama