Investigations against the Musang King farmers are being completed for prosecution purposes, says the Pahang forestry department. (Bernama pic)
PETALING JAYA: Durian farmers at the Batu Talam permanent forest reserve in Raub, Pahang, will not be allowed to enter the area to retrieve their belongings, says the state forestry department (JPNP).
It said this is because it can “disrupt investigations which are in the process of being completed for prosecution purposes”.
In a statement, the department also said the decision was based on advice from the Pahang legal adviser and the deputy public prosecutor.
Earlier today, Pahang menteri besar Wan Rosdy Wan Ismail said he had received a request from MCA secretary-general Chong Sin Woon for the Musang King farmers to enter the operations area to retrieve their belongings.
Rosdy had advised Chong to personally seek permission from JPNP instead.
Rosdy had received a courtesy call from deputy environment and water minister Ahmad Masrizal Muhammad at Wisma Sri Pahang in Kuantan yesterday afternoon, which Chong also attended.
According to him, the matter of enforcement at the Batu Talam forest reserve, particularly the 101.17ha encompassing the illegal Musang King durian farm, was discussed during the call.
Following that, Rosdy praised the Pahang government’s consistent assertiveness in its enforcement efforts, regardless of race, area or district, when it came to illegal land encroachments in the state.
PETALING JAYA: Durian farmers at the Batu Talam permanent forest reserve in Raub, Pahang, will not be allowed to enter the area to retrieve their belongings, says the state forestry department (JPNP).
It said this is because it can “disrupt investigations which are in the process of being completed for prosecution purposes”.
In a statement, the department also said the decision was based on advice from the Pahang legal adviser and the deputy public prosecutor.
Earlier today, Pahang menteri besar Wan Rosdy Wan Ismail said he had received a request from MCA secretary-general Chong Sin Woon for the Musang King farmers to enter the operations area to retrieve their belongings.
Rosdy had advised Chong to personally seek permission from JPNP instead.
Rosdy had received a courtesy call from deputy environment and water minister Ahmad Masrizal Muhammad at Wisma Sri Pahang in Kuantan yesterday afternoon, which Chong also attended.
According to him, the matter of enforcement at the Batu Talam forest reserve, particularly the 101.17ha encompassing the illegal Musang King durian farm, was discussed during the call.
Following that, Rosdy praised the Pahang government’s consistent assertiveness in its enforcement efforts, regardless of race, area or district, when it came to illegal land encroachments in the state.
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kt notes:
What a ton load of kerbau. What investigations when 15,000 trees were already maliciously chopped down?
And Rosdy's self-praise on its non-racial approach makes me puke when the deprived farmers have been mainly Chinese. The farmers were initially coerced into joining a green-eyed avaricious cartel to labour like serfs for the cartel's gluttonous 'rental'gains and when that failed, subsequently had 15,000 of their hard-labour grown trees execrably destroyed as a warning of 'more to come'.
And Rosdy's self-praise on its non-racial approach makes me puke when the deprived farmers have been mainly Chinese. The farmers were initially coerced into joining a green-eyed avaricious cartel to labour like serfs for the cartel's gluttonous 'rental'gains and when that failed, subsequently had 15,000 of their hard-labour grown trees execrably destroyed as a warning of 'more to come'.
And we all thought that royalty would be our succour and hope.
ReplyDeleteSeems the royalty is afflicted with the Ringgit disease too.
Would the authorities be so malicious had this been a mostly Malay involvement? I doubt it.
The Durian fiasco- It's about authoritarian abuse of power, but not really about race.
ReplyDeleteThe people promoting Royal Pahang Durian are in fact, mostly Chinese Malaysians, and further in the background, Chinese from "elsewhere".