The Terengganu Chairman of Agriculture, Agro-based Industry, Food Security and State Commodities, Dr Azman Ibrahim, recently took to his X account to share an infographic on Terengganu’s efforts to reduce dependency on petroleum royalty proceeds.
He wrote, “What is the State Government’s efforts to reduce dependence on petroleum revenue? We drew it out so that it is easy to understand. The orange bar is the state revenue and the green bar is the amount of petroleum money over a 3-year period.”
His infographic chart essentially displays a steady decrease in petroleum royalty proceeds, from RM2.21 billion a year from 2011 to 2013, to RM1.57 billion a year from 2015 to 2017 and finally, RM1.16 billion a year from 2021 to 2023.
But, eagle-eyed netizens spotted something amiss about the infographic
Despite the amounts for state revenue being in the millions while the petroleum royalty proceeds being in the billions, the green bars for petroleum royalty proceeds appear to be much LOWER than the orange bars for state revenue.
Hence, despite the steady decrease in petroleum royalty proceeds, the green bars should still be higher than the orange bars.
Malaysians took to his post to call out the infographic for being misleading.
“How is PAS governing? Even between millions and billions, they don’t know which is bigger. Someone with a ‘Dr’ standard in PAS isn’t even smart enough to look at a graph, but is persistent in wanting to talk about the economy.”
“Even if they’re right, represent the graph accurately lah.”
“This is clear proof that having a ‘Dr’ title doesn’t necessarily mean intelligence. Even more so that being an Exco doesn’t mean they know how to calculate. They can’t even tell the height difference of billions and millions in a graph plot,”
“The fate of the Terengganu people. Wanting so much for PAS to govern, an Exco like this is what they get.”
“They drew it out to make it easier to understand but in actual fact, they don’t understand how to draw it out. Join a visual presentation class first please.”
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