Kg Bakar Batu; another village facing extinction

Johor Bahru, March 10, 2016: The residents of Kampung Bakar Batu, Perling Johor Bahru have demanded that they be treated fairly by the State government and the property developer who now owns the property that the village sits on. Speaking at a press conference organized to highlight their plight, village spokesman Norman Abdul Hamid said that there have been no discussions between the State government, the developer and the village working committee (JKK).

“The only people we have met have been the lawyers acting for the developer, Nodedua Sdn Bhd and there wasn’t any discussion, only them telling us ‘their instructions’,” Norman said.

Norman and the 70 residents who attended the press conference expressed dismay at the previous JKK and its chairman who they accused of letting them down by not having any discussions with the villagers on the proposals by the developer.

Norman Abdul Hamid

“All of a sudden, in early October last year, we were presented with an undertaking letter (Aku Janji) to vacate our homes of over 50 years for a miserly compensation of RM15,000 and to move to low-cost rented flats.

Of the 150 families living in Kampung Bakar Batu Perling, 18 have accepted the compensation and they have moved out to rented low-cost flats also in the Perling area.

The 65-acre property is a piece of land that juts out into the Straits of Johor, flanked by two rivers, Sungai Skudai and Sungai Danga that flows into the Straits.

Being in close proximity to high-value developments such as Danga Bay, any development promises to be of similar high value for wealthy foreigners and locals. Kampung Bakar Baru sits on the irrigation and drainage reserve of this spit of land and in reality falls under the country’s Irrigation and Drainage Department.

 “This is one reason why our applications for temporary occupation have failed, but they seemed to have sold the reserve to the developer,” Norman said.

Norman and a few of the residents who spoke at the press conference reiterated that they were not against development, but they wanted to meet with the developer and State government representatives to discuss the way forward.

“The RM15,000 cash and relocation to rented flats are not fair compensations,” said Norman. He explained that more than half the heads of families here are full time coastal fishermen.

“Where are they going to moor their fishing boats? “There are two households who live solely on boat building and repair; where are they going to do this specialized work?” asked Norman. The JKK have submitted proposals to the Johor Palace, State government agencies and the Menteri Besar.

Villagers who accepted the RM15,000 compensation have moved to rented flats, leaving their houses in ruins, becoming potential mosquito breeding grounds

Amongst the suggestions put forward in the proposals was upgrading the village with better infrastructure, build replicas of traditional Johor houses, thus turning it into a ‘living’ museum. They propose that they live in these houses and help run the living museum.

“Some of us have ancestors who lived here when the Orang Asli were still living on their boats and that island across was their open burial ground,” said Norman, pointing to a once mangrove island, now turned into land lots for their buyers to build luxury homes.

Another proposal is for compensation of RM150,000 and a medium cost home per remaining family at a suitable location where fishermen and boat builders can still carry out their vocation.

The Orang Asli Seletar were allotted a reserve of about 14 acres within Kampung Bakar Batu with another two acres as their traditional burial grounds. “So I think we are deserving of more than RM15,000 and a rented flat,” Norman added. One of the properties that they have identified for relocation is just adjacent to the Orang Asli settlement of about nine-and-a-half acres.

Also present at the press conference was Cheo Yee How, the state assemblyperson for Pengkalan Rinting who promised to bring up their plight in the next State Assembly sitting. The village falls under his State constituency.

Somewhere in Tanjung Kupang

Country’s first international drone race takes off

Malaysia’s first international drone race took off to a flying start with 31 competitors from three countries racing to compete for RM32,000 worth of attractive prizes for the three categories.

The racers had to race through a 160-metre tight, twisting circuit, negotiating four air-gates and four air-flags in groups of three per class heat.

Air-gates are domes installed on the ground of about five feet high and10 feet wide and the drones have to go under these, while air flags are flag poles marking the turning points of the circuit.

“The racers are divided into three categories based on the airframe size of the drones.

“So they are the 250, 330 and 450 categories with the 250 class being the top category,” explained Hamdi Hamdan the race director.

“The racers go through qualifying time trials and then they compete in the finals and the championship,” Hamdi added.

They race five laps of the circuit, three or four at a time.

Hamdi Hamdan

The race is under the US-based Aerial Grand Prix franchise and is organized here under the Drone Malaysia association.

Hamdi explained that these types of drones are put together by enthusiasts.

The enthusiasts he said would buy the airframes, motors, propellers, flight controllers, ‘first person view’ cameras and monitors, video transmitters and receivers and whole bunch of stuff and they put all these together to build a racing drone.

(Learn abouthow to build a racing drone)

However, he wasn’t quite happy with the number of competitors.

“Considering the number of enthusiasts for these type of drones around the country, the number of competitors for this first race, was disappointing,” he said.

“We also didn’t get much support from local businesses like the distributors and retailers of components and systems,” Hamdi added.

“Maybe they adopted a ‘wait-and-see’ attitude,” he said.

Hamdi however expressed gratitude to component distributors from Singapore who sponsored free parts such as propellers and other items for the competitors.

The races were given one day to practice on September 26^th while the race proper was  held on a haze-enveloped sky on September 27^th, but that didn’t cloud the enthusiasm of the competitors.



This inaugural race was held at a Universiti Malaya field but Hamdi is intending to have next year’s race in a covered location incase of inclement weather.

“We have a longer time-frame to organize next year’s event and we hope for more local and regional participants,” Hamdi said.

In the meantime, he and his team hope to organize races around the country and aim to put together a national drone-racing league.

Present at the event was drone NGO, Malaysia Unmanned Drones Activist Society or MUDAS.
MUDAS is in the forefront to promote safe drone flying ever since aerial footage of airliners landing at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport shocked the nation.

Haidar Abu Bakar

“We’re working with the authorities to put together a framework to promote responsible and safe operation of drones, particularly for those who operate them as a hobby for photography and videography,” said Haidar Abu Bakar of MUDAS.

“The racing hobbyists here are OK; they don’t fly high, they practice and complete away from the public, but it’s the guys who buy drones fitted with cameras like the popular Phantom series of quadcopters that we are worried about,” Haidar added.

“They have to be made aware of the existing regulations, such as flying below 400 feet, not to fly above crowds and heavy traffic and away from tall buildings and no-fly zones,” he added.

“All too often these commonsense guidelines are ignored and it’s important to have some measure of regulation to prevent untoward incidents and accidents,” he said.

Taking top prize for the inaugural race was Worassorn Subsri from Thailand who competed in the main 250 class.

Worassorn Subsri

“This is my first ever drone race; I’ve never even competed in any local race in Thailand, so I am surprised and happy,” said the 35-year-old who took up the hobby just six months ago although he was flying RC helicopters before then.

He came away with the coveted DJI Phantom S900, a six-rotor drone capable of carrying a payload of 8.2kg. What this means is that it can carry high-end cameras such as the Panasonic Lumix GH4.

Just the frame itself costs RM6,000.00.

“Drone racing is getting to be a popular sport around the world and our ambition is to organise an Asian championship one day,” Hamdi said.

Johor is GHB's frontline state

GHB with Johor Opposition leaders

“Johor will be the frontline state with Melaka and Negeri Sembilan as anchor states for Gerakan Harapan Baru going forward towards the 14^th general elections,” said the movement’s secretary Dr Dzulkely Ahmad. 

Met at GHB’s Johor open house here at Taman Universiti yesterday, the former Kuala Selangor MP said that they had not expected such overwhelming support in the locations where they had held their roadshows.

“Last night we were in a small village in Pontian called Ayer Baloi and there were quite a few hundred people listening to us,” he said.

Together with him at Ayer Baloi were GHB’s top leadership including former PAS deputy president and now GHB chairman, Mohamad Sabu, Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad, PAS lawyer Hanipah Maidin, Suhaizan Kaiyat, Dr Hatta Ramli and others. Also in attendance was DAP supremo, Lim Kit Siang and PKR Johor chief Hassan Karim with their respective leaders and supporters.

“We feel the silent majority wants to have their say in light of all the controversies such as 1MDB, the questionable RM2.6 billion that was in the Prime Minister’s account that has yet to be satisfactorily explained by the PM himself, the depreciating currency and many other issues that has left ordinary people in despair,” he said.

Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad, GHB Secretary

“But we are not unfamiliar faces so we have the Pas people coming to meet and listen to us and we have youths who are new to politics and who’ve taken an interest in the backdrop of the crisis that the country is facing; and this crisis is hurting them,” Dr Dzulkefly added.

“There is a good mix of races, ages and income levels; from the rural to the urban that are interested and hopefully they’ll see us as a shot in the arm,” he added.

“We are however disappointed that PAS has chosen to criticize us harshly, using words like ‘barua’ (slave) of DAP which is uncalled for.

“We are moving ahead with the policies that were agreed to by PAS itself in the Pakatan coalition and which they reversed at the last muktamar.

“PAS needs to be more mature in its politics, and not emulate Umno in its level of attacks,” he added.

“Islam is still our clarion call; an Islam that is universal, that is inclusive, that believes in justice for all, that is fair, regardless of race and religion,” he said.

The open house also saw the introduction of the Johor Gerakan Harapan Baru committee headed by its chairman, YB Hj Aminolhuda Hassan Assemblyman for Parit Yaani aided by three deputies, Dzulkifli Ahmad, Mazlan Aliman who is also president of Persatuan Anak Peneroka Felda Kebangsaan (ANAK) and former PAS youth chief Suhaizan Kayat.

Newly minted GHB Johor president said that although it’s too early to gauge the level of support, but there is certainly an increase in awareness of GHB in areas where they have had their roadshows.

“Last night we were in Pontian and for a small village to come out to hear us was encouraging,” he said. 

Gerakan Harapan Baru’s chairman Mohamad Sabu, popularly referred to as Mat Sabu said that the political situation in Johor has changed significantly.

“Since the 2008 and 2013 general elections, Johor is no longer the bastion of Umno and Barisan Nasional,” he said when met at the sidelines of the Gerakan Harapan Baru Hari Raya Open House.

“There is a change in the mindet of Johor’s youths who are working in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and elsewhere and because of this, Johor has great potential for the new Pakatan Rakyat together with GHB to win more seats at the next general election when compared with other states,” Mohamad Sabu said.

“Coupled with the political turmoil surrounding the removal of the deputy Umno president and former deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, we feel that Johor is ready for change, but there must be a Pakatan Rakyat as no party will be able to affect change in the state without this coalition,” he added.

Tanjung Kupang Fishermen Leaving It To Fate

Disturbance of the marine ecology at the Straits of Johor has hurt the daily catch for Johor’s coastal fishermen since the first pile went into the straits to build the 2nd Link.

Subsequent developments such as the Port of Tanjung Pelepas, power plant and petrochemical hub have affected the fish, prawn and crab stocks.

Now two future developments are slated for the already stressed Straits, one a massive 4,800 acre development of luxury dwellings called Forest City and another proposed 3,484 acre reclamation project proposed by Benelac.

Both will form artificial islands in the straits. Could these two be the final nail in the coffin for the largely Malay fishing community on the south-west corner of the Johor Straits?

We speak to an environmental activist and two fishermen from the fishing village of Tanjung Kupang, just 40 kilometres from Johor Bahru and take a boat ride to a vital ecological area, the Merambong Shoal. Part of this shoal has been reclaimed over – a sand bank now juts out from the land and the shoal is facing total destruction.  

The Merambong Shoal

“The Merambong shoal is so rich and diverse and a vital component of marine life all along the

Bakhtiar Jaaffar, Environmental Activist

Straits of Johor,” says environmental activist, and former teacher Bakhtiar Jaaffar. It is home to the largest sea grass bed in peninsular Malaysia and stretches from the Pulai River estuary to Merambong Island on the Straits of Johor.

Why is this shoal so vital?

“Where the mangrove and river systems are the hatcheries for fish, prawns and crustaceans, the shoal and sea grass bed is their nursery. This is where fish and crustaceans mature,” he explains.

Once there was an abundance of seahorses in the shoal estimated to be about 30 hectares in size. Bakhtiar’s Alumni Club together with the Save Our Seahorses initiative created an inventory listing 14 categories, comprising 49 types of marine life in the Merambong Shoal including 20 types of local fishes and 15 types of crustaceans.

“One type of fish, the pipefish is extremely rare. The other location where this fish exists is in the Gulf of Aden,” he says.

“Take this shoal away, and you take away a vital component of the marine ecosystem and thus a food source,” he adds. This is the food source that the coastal fishermen of Southern Johor have relied on for revenue since human civilization began in this region.

Once there were turtles that hunt these waters for crabs and other crustaceans, and dugongs were reported to have frolicked in these waters of the shoal. It was an important habitat for seahorses. 


The threat to the shoal began in 1994.

“Since reclamation and construction work started in 1994 for the Malaysia – Singapore Second Link, our catch from these coastal waters have dropped drastically,” says Norhaidi bin Mahmood, 54 who has been a fishermen since he was 15 years of age.

No sooner was the second link completed in 1998, that work commenced on the Port of Tanjung Pelepas, which began operations in 1999, followed by a petrochemical hub and a power plant in Tanjung Bin.

“Before this, we could bring home 50 to 60 kilos of crabs with a 600-metre net. But now we need to lay 1,000 metres of net to catch maybe 20 kilos of crabs and sometimes we net only five or six kilos; doesn’t even pay for the cost of fuel,” adds Norhaidi’s cousin Abdul Ghani bin Abdul Rashid, a 40 year old fisherman.

“We would be lucky if we earn RM1,000 a month now,” adds Norhaidi. According to Norhaidi, there are over 200 fishermen in his village of Kampung Tanjung Kupang, but if you include other fishing communities in the south west of Johor from Tanjung Piai to Johor Bahru, there are easily more than 1,000 fishermen trying to eke out a living in this once bountiful Straits of Johor. Almost all are Malays and a smaller number of Orang Asli Seletar fishermen.

As at time of publication, the Forest City Development has been kept on hold pending a Detailed Environmental Impact Assessment report requested by the Federal government’s Department of the Environment. “But the damage has been done to the shoal. One area has already been reclaimed and rises from the waters like an embankment, effectively splitting the shoal.

“The embankment was then ‘cut’ to create a channel after complaints that tide flow was affected. “The developers claim that creating the embankment from shore was done in error,” says Bakhtiar.

Now the waters are murky from sand used to build the embankment and the sea grass bed is in danger of dying. “This shoal is our treasure, says Bakhtiar. “How could they have allowed this to happen?” he asks. Often rubbish gets stuck in the nets and sand from the reclamation damages fishing nets, increasing the cost of fishing while fish stocks decline. 

Mitigation Efforts

Bakhtiar says there are mitigation efforts. “But you can’t just transplant the sea grass bed. Where are you going to transplant it to?” He says they’ve put buoys to hold nets and these surround the embankment to hold the sand in place.

“This will surely create a dead zone. Nothing can survive. They don’t understand that marine life need the right environment and depend on each other to survive; it’s a symbiotic relationship,” explains Bakhtiar.

And what of the State’s department of the environment?

Bakhtiar questions how and why the state government’s environmental department could have approved such destruction to the area’s ecology. “They claim they monitor all projects that could have adverse effects on the environment and community but they probably do this monitoring with long range binoculars,” he says cynically. “No villager here has seen or met with any officers from the department of the environment,” Bakhtiar claims.

For fishermen Norhaidi and Abdul Ghani, the future is bleak.

Norhadi Mahmood, Fisherman

Norhaidi has four children, one at university. One in a technical college, while two others are in school aged 17 and five.

Abdul Ghani is widowed also has four young children, the eldest being just 11 and the youngest, six. They have no idea what they will do if there is nothing else left to fish and they could no longer earn a living.

“Nowadays it’s difficult to earn a thousand ringgit a month,” says Norhaidi.

He has been tightening his belt, but then there’s the prospect of a 6% Government Sales Tax from April 2015 and he expects his cost of living to balloon.

“If the government wants to help, one way is to give us land and turn us into farmers,” he adds. “There’s no future in fishing anymore.” “I can’t go and fish elsewhere, like in Kota Tinggi (Johor river area),” says Abdul Ghani.

“I don’t have local knowledge of other areas other than this and you just can’t go fish anywhere,” he adds.

There is a rumour of the government compensating them with fishing trawlers that could fish further out to sea. “How are they going to do that with over a thousand fishermen affected by all these developments?” asks Abdul Ghani

 “And you need to employ people to operate these boats, not like now where it’s just us,” Abdul

Abdul Ghani bin Abdul Rashid, Fisherman

 

Ghani says.

“The fishermen are stunned. They don’t know what’s happening,” adds Bakhtiar. Bakhtiar thinks that proving fishermen with trawlers to go out father into the sea into the straits of Malacca would be a good idea.

“Train the children of the fishermen to operate the trawlers because many of them will end up as fishermen themselves anyway. Some will go on to colleges and universities but the majority will remain to inherit their father’s vocation,” he says. 


Survey? What survey?

“There are people claiming to have done a poll and the results indicate that the people here support the development of Forest City. Who did they survey? They certainly didn’t survey me,” says Bakhtiar. “Did they survey foreign workers living here? How many kampong people and fishermen did they survey?” asks Bakhtiar sarcastically.

“A dialogue held in September with the developers was a ruckus affair and clearly showed that the people here are unhappy with the development,” he adds.

In July this year the State government announced that developers conducting reclamation work would have to contribute 30 sen per square foot towards a fund for fishermen. (http://www.nst.com.my/node/10057).

How this will pan out is still a mystery for Bakhtiar and the two fishermen we interviewed.

“Who is going to manage this fund? How will it be used? These are issues that haven’t been revealed,” says Bakhtiar.

Being a former teacher Bakhtiar is concerned for the future generation. When he was teaching, he organized an environment club outside of the school’s curricula and followed that with an alumni club comprising of former students. They helped out NGO, Save Our Seahorses at many fact-finding projects concerning the environment and in particular around the Merambong Shoal.

“What’s going to happen to the youth of this village when there are no more fish, prawns and crabs to earn from?” he asks. “Nobody asks the youth here what they want, and they should be asked because it’s their future,” he says.

The Fishermen’s Association

We asked about their Fishermen’s Association. The fishermen shook their heads. “We don’t want to say anything. It would not sound very nice, says Norhaidi.

According to Bakhtiar, the information doesn’t get to the fishermen. “Whatever information the association received doesn’t get filtered down to the members.

They seem to think that because they are elected, they can decide on what to do without informing or briefing the others. “How can they do this especially on important issues, but that’s the level of their

thinking because that’s their level of education,” says a cynical Bakhtiar. The two fishermen seem to have resigned themselves to an uncertain future.

Quotes Norhaidi fatefully; “Ibarat batu tengelam. Ibarat sabut timbul” or ‘if you are lucky you will float and if you are unlucky, you will sink’.

“Many of us don’t even own the land we live on; we are either squatting on property of relatives or on government land. If we are forced to move, where will we go?

If they offer low cost housing, we won’t be able to buy because banks will never approve our loan applications; we don’t have a salary slip.

“You wait and see. Fishermen here will be living under bridges and underpasses soon,” says Norhaidi.

Johor Fishermen: Drowning By Development

The coastal fishermen of southern Johor are under pressure. Their very existence is under threat from fast-paced developments engulfing where they live and work – the coastal areas fronting the Straits of Johor. Before work began at the mouth of the Pulai River for the Port of Tanjung Pelepas, they could earn RM100 worth of catch from a quick trip to lay their nets and traps and they could go out three or four times a day.

En Mansor Mahidin, 65

Before work began for the construction of PTP, fishermen earned RM4,000 to RM5,000 a month. Their catch were weighed in tons. Since the construction and subsequent operation of PTP, other projects have appeared on shore such as a power plant and a petrochemical facility that has allegedly destroyed large swathes of mangrove forests along the shoreline on the Malaysia side of the Straits of Johor.

“Before they dug up the mouth of the Pulai River for the Port of Tanjung Pelepas, that area was unique. That was not only a fishing area but where prawns, fish and crustaceans move up river to lay their eggs,” says fisherman Mansor Mahidin, 65. Mansor is also the president of the Fishermen Action Committee of Mukim Serkat.

“So now where are these marine life going to spawn? It’s a critical area,” he adds. Whatever fishing areas are left, have been ‘taken over’ by ships that ply the straits heading into or out of PTP.

All the fishermen have left are spots of areas closer to shore that have not already been affected by a power plant and a petrochemical plant. Fishing communities along the once productive Straits of Johor are hemmed in and stressed.




Note: At time of publication, reclamation work seems to have been halted pending a report and recommendation from the environment department.

Marine Ecology Destroyed

“Any form of coastal development will destroy the ecology of the coastal areas and rivers,” says fisherman Jamaluddin Mohamad, 45.

“A study has determined that the mangrove forests are vital for 75% of marine life and when these are destroyed the impact will be felt by not only the fishermen but by the country as a whole. “Why? Because more fish will be imported to meet local demand and therefore we lose foreign exchange,” Jamaluddin says. Jamaluddin says that the country’s food security will be at risk.

En Jamaluddin Mohamad, 45

“We are one of the largest consumers of fish in the region and yet the government wants to ‘reduce the size of the sea’,” he says. If the current development aren’t bad enough, reclamation work to build islands for luxury condominiums have encroached on highly sensitive ecological areas; Beting Merambong (Merambong shoal) and the island of Pulau Merabong.

Nearby off Tanjung Kupang are said to house the largest bed of sea grass and seaweed on the coast of peninsula Malaysia that supports a multitude of vital species of marine life including the seahorse and dugong. Where the mangrove forests, rivers and estuaries are the nesting grounds of marine life, where they lay their eggs and spawn, shoals and seagrass beds are their nurseries before they head out to sea.

“Why has the government allowed this to happen? Why has the federal government allowed the state government to overrule it on matters of the environment?” asks Jamaluddin.

One Foot In Indonesian Jail

“In 2001 I could easily earn RM3,500 to RM4,000 a month just from fishing in this coastal areas, now I am putting one foot in an Indonesian jail because I have to fish within their borders to feed my family of seven children, the oldest at university and the youngest is just three years old,” says Jamaluddin.

Now, out of 100 days at sea, he spends 90 of those in Indonesian waters, travelling 16 nautical miles, taking him over an hour to get to his fishing area, and spending six to eight hours as an illegal fisherman. He does this at night. Jamaluddin, a graduate of a technical college in Kuala Lumpur only became a fisherman in 2001 when he was retrenched from work during the 1997 economic crisis that hit the region.

Mansor however has been a fisherman all his life. His grandfather was one, so was his father. When he was just nine years old, his father passed away and he had to leave school to follow his uncle to sea. By 12, he was already a fully-fledged fisherman.

“I have sent my children to university from the earnings of those years; two, studied medicine, says Mansor. He is happy that none has followed his footsteps as a fisherman.“There is no future,” he says.

Create A Felda Scheme For Fishermen

“The government tells us to change our ways. We can’t to that. We have no funds. If the government wants us to leave fishing, then do what they did during Tun Razak’s time; give us each 10 acres and we work the land, just like the Felda schemes,” Mansor adds.

The Worth of Three Generations: RM500

For Salehuddin b Abdul Manaf, 60 and his daughter Norhaslin, receiving RM500.00 as compensation for the land and home that their family have occupied for over 3 generations, was devastating.

The cheque, dated April 25, 2014 was subsequently returned to the issuer.

“I don’t even know the person who received the cheque on our behalf,” says Norhaslin who was made administrator to the property on the passing of her mother.

“We have occupied this land since the Forties and we had applied for and were given the right to occupy under a ‘temporary occupation license’, which we had diligently been renewing until 1998 when the land office concerned informed us that the license could no longer be renewed,” said Salehuddin because the land was to be transferred to a state government company for development.

“Under Schedule 5B, Section 434 of the National Land Code, we are entitled to compensation because we discovered through the Public Complaints Bureau that the property was transferred to a government linked company in 1997 while they still had a valid license to the property,” said Norhaslin.

Norhaslin Salehuddin (L). Salehuddin Abdul Manaf (R)

While the earlier transfer was to a GLC, the company that issued the RM500 compensation is totally different.
"But now, we don't know who the developers are," said Salehuddin.

“The RM500.00 is an unreasonable amount for compensation. It defies logic,” she continued.

On Oct 21, 2014 Norhaslin wrote to the land office expressing her objection to the compensation, saying that it was unreasonable. And on November 10, 2014 the Menteri Besar’s office wrote to the land office requesting for clarification. And this is where it stands currently.

It has been 17 years of frustration, going in and out of the land office pursuing what they feel is their right as citizens of Johor. But the state government seemingly wants to sweep them aside as ‘piece of nuisance’, favouring developers over the ‘small person’.

Clearly, there are property developments going on around the area approaching their former home; some are already completed – apartments and a hotel with other areas already boarded with hoarding and billboards advertising property developments that will soon alter the landscape of this once riverine village.

For now Salehuddin and his daughter will have to wait for the response by the land administer to the querry from the Menteri Besar’s office.

The property is located at Kampung Bakar Batu, Mukim Plentong, Johor Bahru.