Category: Environment EN

This is a response to the Sarawak government’s most recent amendments to their Land Code and their Forestry Enactment, which mainly concern responses to address climate change. While we see the need for the Sarawak government to make provisions for regulating the use of land both onshore and offshore for the storage of oil and gas companies in the state as per the Explanatory Statement in the...

Selangor’s Exco for State Tourism and Environment, YB Hee Loy Sian announced on 19 May 2022 five new policies with regard to the operation of plastic waste recycling factories in the state, including not allowing the import of plastic waste for the purpose of recovery or final disposal by factories that conduct plastic waste recycling processes. Non-governmental organizations comprising the...

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) urges the Johor Department of Environment (DOE) to take stern action under the Environmental Quality Act 1974 against factory operators identified as being involved in the recent pollution of the Skudai River. CAP is concerned with the incident because it not only pollutes the river but can also affect the health of consumers if the problem persists....

It is Earth Day once again on April 22.  As we have said before, it is not enough to dedicate one day in a year to remember her if we are to save her and save ourselves. We must remember her every day and put the environment and ecology at the centre of decision-making if we are to prevent future calamities that result in catastrophic environmental impacts which also have economic implications....

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) welcomes and supports the Penang State Government’s firmness and proposed action against pig farm operators who do not comply with the Pig Breeding Enactment 2016, as this has caused water pollution and odor. It was reported that starting January 2022, the state government will close operations and demolish pig farms that do not comply with licensing conditions. This...

The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) finds it absolutely disgusting about the apathy of people who threw about one tonne of rubbish into the Sungai Pinang. The rubbish trapped by the river’s log boom is then fished out by the Penang Island City Council (MBPP) daily. We urge the Penang state government to install close circuit TV (CCTV) cameras at strategic locations along Sungai Pinang to...

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) is not surprised to learn that a tonne of rubbish is being collected from the log boom in Sungai Pinang daily.  This is a long-standing issue of littering due to a lack of aggressive enforcement action by the government. Penang State Infrastructure Committee chairman was quoted by the media attributing the pollution situation to the attitude of people who continued...

In conjunction with the International Day of Forests, Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) would like to highlight the importance of being consistent in our efforts on forest protection in this country, both at the federal and state levels. We would like to begin by applauding four important positive developments on forest protection in Malaysia in the last year. First, in September last year, Selangor...

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) calls on the Selangor state government to conduct a Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the Taman Bukit Permai, Ampang landslide tragedy which has claimed four lives and has led to the evacuation of 48 homes in the landslide zone due to safety concerns. In order to prevent a repeat of such tragedies, a COI needs to be conducted to get to the root causes of the landslide,...