Peninsular Malaysia—rubber and oil palm processing and manufacturing, light manufacturing industry, electronics, tin mining and smelting, logging and processing timber;
Sabah—logging, petroleum production;
Sarawak—agriculture processing, petroleum production and refining, logging
_#_Agriculture:
Peninsular Malaysia—natural rubber, palm oil, rice;
Sabah—mainly subsistence, but also rubber, timber, coconut, rice;
Sarawak—rubber, timber, pepper; there is a deficit of rice in all areas; fish catch of 608,000 metric tons in 1987
_#_Illicit drugs: transit point for Golden Triangle heroin going to the US, Western Europe, and the Third World
_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-84), $170 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $4.5 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $42 million
_#_Currency: ringgit (plural—ringgits); 1 ringgit (M$) = 100 sen