PPLH was envisioned for development on alienated land and state land forests but in its implementation, sustainability consideration was ignored.
and the public that under my truncated watch , I had initiated a review of the programme with an urgency to address its sustainability challenges.For the uninitiated, FPDSB is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Malaysian Timber Industry Board – the statutory body of the Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry in charge of regulating and developing the downstream timber industry in Peninsular Malaysia.
Initially, eight fast-growing species were encouraged to be planted including rubber . The ambition was to develop 375,000ha of plantation but in 2010, the target was scaled down to 130,000ha following a rationalisation exercise on the high cost of development. This approach was simultaneously factored into the Malaysian Timber Certification Scheme’s Malaysia Criteria and Indicator 2012 document with a caveat that such conversion will be limited to no more than 5 percent of the respective state’s PRFs. As a result, PPLH inevitably became a perverse incentive which saw the conversion of tens of thousands of hectares of natural forests into monoculture timber plantation and contributed to forest degradation.
The need to preserve the integrity of PRFs was a clear objective of the Harapan government. This was evident in the significant 4-point policy shift adopted in early 2019 with regards to the controversial oil palm industry. One of the points related to no further conversion of PRFs into oil palm estates and this commitment extended beyond oil palm, tacitly.
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