All is good for headline story and on paper for publicity, but the bottom of the story is it opens a portal for them to songlap.
Sarawak, your history on transparency and corruption is just beyond the scale that known to us, it is like staring into abyss.
Nope.
Sarawak has always been rich in terms of GDP per capita, consistently in top 3 of all Malaysia states in the past decade, just behind Kuala Lumpur and Labuan, beating Selangor, Penang and Johor [1] that most people perceived as rich and economy driven states.
Their 2022 finances:
Sarawak economy has traditionally heavily depended on natural resource extraction and exports, i.e., oil and gas, timber and palm oil. Their main export partners [4]:
They have their control long ago to enrich themselves and just that the peasants willingly fooled themselves to believe they have not been in control and grateful they have the second coming of Jesus to resurrect them from independence.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Malaysian_states_by_GDP
[2] https://www.businesstoday.com.my/2023/02/02/abang-johari-sarawak-records-rm11-9-billion-revenue-for-2022/
[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20220702022625/https://www.newsarawaktribune.com.my/sarawak-approves-rm10-646-bln-budget-for-2022/
[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20210607170429/https://www.theborneopost.com/2019/09/29/enhancing-access-to-sarawaks-trade/