Former Deputy Chief of Staff Abu Jinapor is heading for the Lands and Natural Resources Ministry as Minister in the yet to be announced Ministerial nominations by President Akufo-Addo.
Big industry: A timber company’s harvest in Sarawak. The state embarked on the planted forest programme in 1997 to ensure sustainable supply of raw materials for the downstream timber-processing industries and to reduce pressure on the natural forest.
KUCHING: Timber companies holding licences for planted forests (LPFs) are no longer permitted to carry out any new oil palm planting in the licensed areas with immediate effect.
The LPF holders failing to complete the new tree planting plan by 2025 may have the unplanted areas taken back by the state authorities for re-issuance of new LPFs to potential investors.
These new rulings are part of the “Revised policy direction on industrial forest plantation in Sarawak” from the state Urban Development and Natural Resources Ministry. Details of the revised policy are published in the latest issue of Perkasa, a quarterly newsletter of the Sarawak Timber Industry Development Corp (STIDC).
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Pejuang, Muda registrations rejected and other news you may have missed
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KINI ROUNDUP | Here are key headlines you may have missed, in brief.
1. The Registrar of Societies has rejected both Parti Pejuang Tanah Air (Pejuang) and Malaysian United Democratic Alliance’s (Muda) attempts to register as political parties. Pejuang’s pro-tem chairperson Dr Mahathir Mohamad claimed the ROS had said its application was in order but needed ministerial approval.
2. New Covid-19 cases in Malaysia exceeded 3,000 cases per day for the first time, and there are signs that Selangor is now on the same trajectory that Sabah was in October and November last year.