{"id":3235,"date":"2013-06-21T14:13:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T06:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/limguaneng.com\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2013-06-21T17:44:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T09:44:14","slug":"the-new-malaysian-parliament-must-amend-the-environmental-quality-act-to-punish-malaysian-companies-and-foreign-companies-operating-in-malaysia-that-contributed-to-the-haze-by-directly-or-indirectly-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/21\/the-new-malaysian-parliament-must-amend-the-environmental-quality-act-to-punish-malaysian-companies-and-foreign-companies-operating-in-malaysia-that-contributed-to-the-haze-by-directly-or-indirectly-c\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Malaysian Parliament Must Amend The Environmental Quality Act To Punish Malaysian Companies and Foreign Companies Operating In Malaysia That Contributed To The Haze By Directly Or Indirectly Causing Forest Fires In Indonesia.(en\/bm\/cn)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Press Statement by DAP Secretary General And MP For Bagan Lim Guan Eng on 21 June 2013 in Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n<p>DAP calls for new laws to be enacted by the new Malaysian Parliament by amending the Environmental Quality Act to prevent any companies from contributing to the hazardous and severe haze afflicting Singapore and Malaysia that will have harmful health consequences to the affected population. So hazardous is the haze that  200 schools in Muar, Batu Pahat and Pasir Gudang had to be shut down.<\/p>\n<p>The people are expecting some sort of direct action from our new parliamentarians. I will be directing Kulai MP Teo Nie Ching to present such proposals through an urgent motion in Parliament next week.<\/p>\n<p>Such proposed laws must be the immediate task of the new group of MPs which will allow Malaysia to take action against any Malaysian companies AND foreign companies operating in Malaysia that contributed or was responsible or played a par directly or indirectly in the trans-boundary fires in Indonesia that caused pollution to harmful levels, adverse health effects and economic losses across the region.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This follows comments from Senior Indonesian Minister Agung Laksono that big foreign palm oil investors, including Malaysian companies, may be responsible for deliberately burning the forest to open up more oil palm plantations. At the same time, Indonesia should prosecute those responsible for the fires, including any Malaysian plantation companies, companies guilty of setting open fires should be punished with imprisonment, substantial fines and made liable for the damage caused.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Indonesia is the only ASEAN member not to have ratified a 2002 Southeast Asian Transboundary Haze Agreement (SEATHA) that will allow the 10 countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to cooperate to prevent and extinguish forest fires. Indonesia must accept full responsibility for their failure to fulfill their international obligations to ASEAN and Malaysia under the ASEAN Co-operation Plan on Transboundary Pollution to prevent haze caused by the illegal burning of forests.<\/p>\n<p>The annual event has repeated for more than 20 years and the problem has not yet been solved. Malaysia has suffered two severe hazes so far, one in 1997 and another in 2005. In September 1997, as the air pollution index (API) in Sarawak exceeded 600, the government was forced to declare a state of emergency, only pharmacies, clinics, shops and necessity service industries were allowed to open for business, causing economic losses of almost $9 billion in Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia has suffered enough in terms of health problems and economic losses. The BN Federal government must press for the immediate ratification of the 2002 SEATHA in Asean summits to have a joint effort to resolve this problem once and for all. Anything less will be meaningless and our children can only expect to suffer from the same hazardous haze.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal government, Johor and Melaka state governments should also carry out immediate cloud seeding in the worse affected states of Melaka and Johor to  bring rain as one of the control measures to reduce the worsening haze. DAP urge the public to stay indoors where possible and avoid heavy outdoor activities. The Department of Environment should enforce the ban on open burning in this critical period.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;BM Version&#8212;-<br \/>\nKenyataan Media Setiausaha Agung DAP merangkap Ahli Parlimen Bagan, Lim Guan Eng pada 21 Jun 2013 di Kuala Lumpur.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nSidang Parlimen Malaysia yang baru mesti meminda Akta Kualiti Alam Sekitar bagi menghukum syarikat Malaysia dan syarikat antarabangsa yang beroperasi di Malaysia yang menyumbang kepada jerebu dengan menyebabkan kebakaran hutan secara langsung atau tidak langsung di Indonesia.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nDAP menyeru supaya undang-undang baru digubal oleh sidang Parlimen Malaysia yang baru agar meminda Akta Kualiti Alam Sekitar bagi menghalang mana-mana syarikat daripada menyumbang kepada jerebu yang begitu teruk dan merbahaya yang sedang melanda Malaysia dan Singapura yang boleh membawa kesan buruk terhadap kesihatan terhadap populasi yang berkenaan. Begitu teruk sekali jerebu ini sehingga 200 buah sekolah di Muar, Batu Pahat dan Pasir Gudang terpaksa ditutup.<\/p>\n<p>Rakyat sedang menantikan sebarang bentuk tindakan langsung daripada wakil mereka di Parlimen. Saya akan mengarahkan Ahli Parlimen Kulai Teo Nie Ching untuk mengemukakan cadangan tersebut melalui suatu usul segera di Parlimen minggu hadapan.<\/p>\n<p>Cadangan undang-undang sedemikian mestilah menjadi tugasan kumpulan Ahli Parlimen yang baru, di mana undang-undang tersebut akan membenarkan Malaysia mengambil tindakan terhadap mana-mana syarikat Malaysia dan syarikat antarabangsa yang beroperasi di Malaysia yang menyumbang atau bertanggungjawab atau pun memainkan peranan secara langsung atau tidak langsung dalam kebakaran merentas sempadan di Indonesia yang mengakibatkan pencemaran meningkat ke tahap yang amat merbahaya, yang akan mengaj\\kibatkan kesan buruk terhadap kesihatan dan kerugian ekonomi di rantau ini.<\/p>\n<p>Ini berikutan komen daripada seorang Menteri Senior Indonesia, Agung Laksono bahawa pelabur besar dalam industri minyak kelapa sawit, termasuk syarikat Malaysia mungkin bertanggungjawab kerana dengan sengaja membakar hutan bagi tujuan membuka lebih banyak ladang tanaman. Pada masa yang sama Indonesia sepatutnya mendakwa mereka yang bertanggungjawab terhadap kebakaran terbabit, termasuk mana-mana syarikat perladangan Malaysia yang bersalah menyebabkan pembakaran terbuka dengan hukuman penjara, denda yang tinggi dan dipertanggungjawabkan ke atas sebarang kerosakan yang berlaku.<\/p>\n<p>Malangnya, Indonesia adalah satu-satunya negara ASEAN yang tidak meratifikasi Perjanjian Southeast Asian Transboundary Haze Agreement (SEATHA) yang membenarkan 10 negara anggota ASEAN untuk bekerjasama bagi mencegah dan memadamkan kebakaran hutan. Indonesia harus bertanggungjawab penuh di atas kegagalannya memenuhi tuntutan antarabangsa kepada ASEAN dan Malaysia di bawah rancangan kerjasama pencemaran rentas sempadan ASEAN untuk mencegah jerebu yang disebabkan oleh pembakaran hutan secara haram.<\/p>\n<p>Perkara yang berlaku secara tahunan ini telah berulang untuk lebih 20 tahun namun masalahnya masih belum selesai. Malaysia telah mengalami dua jerebu teruk setakat ini, satu pada tahun 1997 dan satu lagi pada tahun 2005. Pada September 1997, di saat indeks pencemaran udara di Sarawak melampaui paras 600, kerajaan terpaksa mengumumkan darurat, sehingga hanya farmasi, klinik, kedai dan perkhidmatan keperluan sahaja yang dibenarkan beroperasi, mengakibatkan kerugian ekonomi bernilai hampir $9 bilion di Asia Tenggara.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia sudah cukup menderita dari segi masalah kesihatan dan kerugian ekonomi. Kerajaan Persekutuan BN mesti mendesak ratifikasi segera perjanjian SEATHA 2002 di persidangan Asean bagi menyelesaikan masalah ini secara bersama. Sebarang tindakan yang tidak mencapai tahap tersebut pastilah tidak bermakna dan anak-anak kita hanya boleh menanti untuk menderita daripada kejadian jerebu yang serupa saban tahun.<\/p>\n<p>Kerajaan Persekutuan, serta Kerajaan Negeri Johor dan Melaka sepatutnya melaksanakan pembenihan awan dengan segera di tempat-tempat yang paling teruk dilanda jereby bagi menurunkan hujan sebagai usaha untuk mengawal jerebu yang semakin teruk. DAP menyarankan orang ramai supaya tidak keluar rumah jika boleh dan tidak terlibat dalam aktiviti luar. 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DAP calls for new laws to be enacted by the new Malaysian Parliament by amending the Environmental Quality Act to prevent any companies from contributing to the hazardous and severe haze afflicting Singapore and Malaysia &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/21\/the-new-malaysian-parliament-must-amend-the-environmental-quality-act-to-punish-malaysian-companies-and-foreign-companies-operating-in-malaysia-that-contributed-to-the-haze-by-directly-or-indirectly-c\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The New Malaysian Parliament Must Amend The Environmental Quality Act To Punish Malaysian Companies and Foreign Companies Operating In Malaysia That Contributed To The Haze By Directly Or Indirectly Causing Forest Fires In Indonesia.(en\/bm\/cn)<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3238,"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions\/3238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}