The animal was to be paid for in ringgits, the local currency.
Official figures showed that commodity export earnings, including petroleum, rose from 28,910 million ringgits in 1988 to about 30,000 million ringgits in 1989.
The measures include mandatory jail sentences of between one and twenty years and fines of up to 500,000 ringgit.
In terms of ability to buy products (purchasing parities), 12 ringgits may be worth $1.
The government pledged ringgit in aid to farmers in both states.
He proclaimed that he had spent almost sixty thousand ringgit in order to produce the album.
The building cost 1.2 million ringgit to build.
The federal government decided to continue the project, as billions of ringgit had already been spent on it.
