SIPITANG: The State Government will find ways on how it can increase its shares in the Sabah Forest Industries (SFI) Sdn Bhd.

Disclosing this here yesterday, Chief Minister Datuk Seri Panglima Shafie Apdal said, as it stands the state only holds two per cent of the total shares in SFI.

“For now, we will determine the direction that we should take to ensure that we can enhance our participation (in SFI) at the state level,” he said, who is also the Finance Minister.

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Pada bulan Mei tahun lalu, rakyat Sabah telah mengundi untuk perubahan kerana WARISAN berjanji untuk menjaga kesejahteraan rakyat Sabah dengan lebih baik. Walau bagaimanapun, pada masa ini mereka seolah-olah telah mengkhianati mandat tersebut.

Baru-baru ini telah diketahui bahawa kerajaan yang dipimpin oleh Shafie memihak kepada syarikat pulpa dan kertas dari China iaitu Lee & Man Paper untuk pengambilalihan Sabah Forest Industries (SFI). Ini adalah bertentangan dengan apa yang telah dipersetujui sebelumnya oleh kerajaan yang dipimpin oleh Musa, bahawa syarikat dari Malaysia iaitu Pelangi Prestasi akan mengambil alih SFI.

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The new WARISAN government’s decision to not honour the Sabah state government’s previous commitment to sell Sabah Forest Industries (SFI) to a credible local investor is a clear indication that the new leaders don’t have the best interests of Sabahans at heart.

SFI is one of Malaysia’s largest timber producers, and is also involved in downstream pulp and paper manufacturing. SFI, which was acquired by an Indian company, Ballarpur in 2007 is in a bad state and in need of a comprehensive structural overhaul. The Malaysian company was selected as the purchaser after a tender, having gotten the nod of approval from the previous Sabah government prior to the 14th general elections in May 2018.

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KOTA KINABALU: A grassroots movement has voiced dismay over the state government’s green light for the proposed Papar Dam although the necessary environmental impact assessment reports had yet to be completed.

Diana Sipail of Takad (Task Force Against Kaiduan Dam) questioned why Sabah Infrastructure Development Minister Peter Anthony had announced the go-ahead when it was clear the community’s input had yet to be taken into consideration.

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In May last year, Sabahans voted for change because WARISAN promised to take better care of the welfare of Sabahans. However, now they seem to be betraying that mandate.

It has recently surfaced that the Shafie government is favouring Chinese pulp and paper company Lee & Man Paper for the takeover of Sabah Forest Industries (SFI). This goes against what had been previously agreed by the Musa government, that Malaysian company Pelangi Prestasi would take over SFI.

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KOTA KINABALU: Polinta Sabah mokianu projik kapanadaan Lebuhraya Pan Borneo popoompit nopo kalaja papahaab talun-alun di kivaa no haid miampai au tagal mongukab toi ko monoodo lahan kavavagu i kikatangaban kopogompit uvang pias id pogun diti.

Vozoon Montili Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal minoboos kouhanan lebuh raya di efisien pointantu no do kiguno montok kotundaan sosioekonomi mogiigizon Sabah, nga, kapanadaan infrastruktur dino nogi mositi maganu pongintangan mintamong pias pinoopi montok ekosistem mamaasi suvai.

“Ino (kapanadaan Lebuhraya Pan Borneo Sabah au kopogompit pias pinoopi) nopo nga sombogizan ahal pibaasan polinta pogun mantad po toi boogizan kogompit id nazatan Hongkod om humansan zou dioho maganu totuhid ahal dino.

“Kapanadaan lebuh raya dino apatut au popoompit panagadan kazu toi ko kapanaanan nuhu tu koinsamakan dino kopogompit nogi pias id Sabah suvai ko kapanaak tanda kumaa sandad posoihi,” ka disido kuminaa magaganu abal kahapas pinopoimagon pitimbungakan sompomogunan Heart of Borneo om Tadau Pias Sompomogunan 2019 id doiti, di koniab.

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Baru-baru ini dilaporkan bahawa Burel Industries Sdn Bhd telah dianugerahkan sebuah projek bernilai RM13 bilion untuk membina loji petrokimia dengan kerjasama entiti milik negeri Sabah, POIC Sabah.

Selepas siasatan lanjut, kami telah mendapati bahawa sebenarnya Burel Industries adalah sebuah syarikat yang tidak aktif yang berdaftar di Malaysia pada tahun 2009 dengan hanya menerbitkan TIGA saham yang bernilai RM3. Saham-saham ini dimiliki sepenuhnya oleh Ingrit Holdings Pte Ltd, sebuah syarikat yang didaftarkan di Singapura yang diperbadankan pada 2010.

Dalam dokumen-dokumen syarikat, aktiviti utama Ingrit adalah aktiviti-aktiviti perkhidmatan yang berkaitan dengan pengekstrakan minyak dan gas bersama pelbagai syarikat induk lain sebagai aktiviti sekunder. Walau bagaimanapun, Ingrit telah dikeluarkan daripada daftar syarikat Singapura pada 1 Julai 2017! Ini bererti sebuah syarikat yang tidak sah dan tidak wujud adalah pemegang saham rasmi Burel Industries – yang kini telah memperoleh urus janji bernilai RM13BILLION dengan sebuah entiti milik negeri Sabah !!

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The Sabah Forestry Department (SFD) has expressed confidence in the government’s implementation of its Sustainable Forestry Management initiative which ensures the protection and conservation of Sabah’s natural assets for posterity.

In his keynote address at the Launching of the Heart of Borneo (HoB) Conference, Chief Conservator of Sabah Forests, Datuk Mashor Mohd Jaini highlighted 60 per cent of Sabah’s land mass remains covered in rainforest, whereas 26 percent is gazetted as totally protected forests (TPA).

“We should be proud of our achievement in the number of TPAs which has surpassed the target set by the IUCN (International Union for Conservation in Nature) which aims to preserve 17 percent of land mass, as well as 10 percent of marine area,” he said.

Touching on the Sabah Forestry Policy 2018, Mashor said the Sabah government has set the aim of preserving at least 30 percent of land area as TPA by 2025.

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Pemberian kawasan-kawasan hutan kepada para pemimpin politik adalah rahsia terbuka di Sabah. Dulu, setiap wakil rakyat atau pemimpin pasti mendapat sekurang-kurangnya 500 ekar balak. Ketua Menteri sebelum yang sekarang memutuskan pada tahun 2006 untuk tidak memberi lesen pembalakan baru untuk memelihara khazanah negeri. Menerusi keputusan itu, maka Sabah mentargetkan menjelang tahun 2025, sekurang-kurang 30 peratus daripada “land mass” Sabah diliputi hutan atau protected area.

Akibat tindakan Ketua Menteri Sabah ke-14 memansuhkan sebarang pemberian kawasan balak, maka kawasan hutan simpan Sabah telah melonjak kepada 1.8juta hektar pada tahun 2017, dan lonjakan itu merupakan 115 peratus berbanding hutan kekal Sabah tahun 2002. Sebagai rekod hutan kekal Sabah, pada tahun 2002 adalah 838,132 hektar, selepas 10 tahun, hutan kekal Sabah pada tahun 2013 adalah 1,350,574 hektar, dan pada tahun 2017 hutan kekal Sabah mencapai 1.8juta hektar, dan pada tahun 2025, ditargetkan 30 peratus land mass Sabah diselimuti hutan kekal.

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The sale of SFI to Malaysian owned Pelangi Prestasi will see the ailing timber company revitalized and supporting a state of the art bio-hub in Sabah– the first of its kind in Southeast Asia. A bio-hub utilises bioresources and biomass including wood, oil palm waste and other kinds of waste feedstock for various purposes, like the production of biodegradable products, such as bioplastic as well as generation of electricity and heat. SFI’s current focus is on a traditional timber harvesting and pulp producing model.

But under Pelangi Prestasi, SFI would take a diversified and integrated approach focusing on transforming its current industrial site in Sipitang to a bio-product mill. Apart from pulp production, it would generate excess green energy and other waste streams that supports the setup of other bio-refineries next to it.

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