Malaysia’s Minister of Natural Resources, Environment and Climate Change Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad was in Singapore after meeting representatives from four other ASEAN countries to discuss the issue of transboundary haze.
SINGAPORE: In a bid to stave off the threat of haze, Malaysia is looking at requiring its plantation subsidiaries operating in Indonesia to formally report how they are working to prevent forest fires.amid warmer and drier conditions in the coming months, in what has become an almost annual affair in the region.
In 2019, Indonesia said some forest fires in its territory had started on land used by subsidiaries of Malaysian companies, as the neighbours traded blame for blazes that spread haze across the region. Despite that, Mr Nik Nazmi said Malaysia is still considering whether to move with a law to penalise local companies that burn their Indonesian plantations and cause haze in Malaysia.
But the law has produced no prosecutions amid difficulties in obtaining evidence in other jurisdictions. “We were all committed that if anything happens, we will all assist one another. We won't just say: ‘Oh, this is an Indonesian problem, Singaporean problem or Malaysian problem,’” he said.
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