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Deputy Prime Minister's Speech at MPOA Dinner

Subang Jaya  10 October 2011

Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin" The Malaysian palm oil industry has recorded remarkable contribution to the nation’s economy. This industry is indeed the backbone of the country’s agriculture sector. It has assumed a significant role in economic development, providing employment opportunities, alleviating poverty and raising income levels, especially in the rural areas.  The Government recognizes this and accords special attention to this sector. …....

The membership of the MPOA comprises many plantation companies, including both large and small companies. The views and position of MPOA reflects the voice of the industry even though there are other organizations which take care of regional or sectoral interests. In this context, I would like to urge MPOA to strengthen its role by further strengthening the contribution of the oil palm sector to the economy as well continue to discharge CSR activities for the benefit of the workers….."

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ACT 446

Act  446 Workers' Minimum Standards of Housing and Amenities Act 1990

An Act to prescribe the minimum standards of housing and nurseries for workers and their dependents. To require employers  to allot land for cultivation and grazing in a place of employment, to require employers to provide health, hospital, medical and social amenities and to  provide for matters incidental to it .

[Peninsular Malaysia—1 December 1990, P.U. (B) 114/1991]

 

 

 

Killings that Triggered the Malayan Emergency in 1948

by Foong Thim Leng (The Star - June 11,2011)
 
The Malaysian Palm Oil Association (MPOA) Perak Branch has received the approval from National Land Finance Cooperative Society, which owns Sungai Siput Estate, to put up a monument at the site of the killings that triggered the Malayan Emergency in 1948 .The monument, costing RM21,985, is to commemorate the planters, members of security forces, workers and their family members, and civilians killed during the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960) and the Reinsurgency (1973 -1989).

MPOA Perak Branch chairman R. Sivalingam said a gallery costing RM49,064 was built near the monument last month. Arrangements are now being made for landscaping, artifacts and photographs to be exhibited in the gallery. The project is made possible by donations mainly from the plantation groups and well-wishers, both local and overseas, he said.He said the MPOA Perak branch will hold a commemorative ceremony today for those who fell in the Malayan Emergency and interred at the cemetery in Batu Gajah, which the planters had fondly named God’s Little Acre.

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Allegations Against IOI “Just Not True”

by Ooi Tee Ching (NST – May 16,2010)

Environmental activists' allegations of IOI Corp Bhd committing some sort of wrongdoing at its estates in Ketapang, West Kalimantan, are just not true.This is despite these non-governmental organisations (NGOs) broadcasting and publishing their claims, over and over again.

IOI Corp Bhd, in its recent filing to the stock exchange and Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), re-iterated that in October 2010, an RSPO-certified auditor SGS investigated the allegations and concluded the deforestation complaints were baseless.

As for native customary rights land dispute with the local community neighbouring the IOI Pelita estate in Sarawak, IOI Corp had regularly invited the local community to find an amicable solution, in the presence of an independent observer.
 
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Oil Palm Players Call to Review High Taxes

by Hanim Adnan  (StarBiz, 10 May 2011)

MANY are aware that the targeted gross national income for the oil palm sector at RM187bil by 2020 from the current RM60bil is considered a tall order by industry practitioners.Even if achievable some of it would be from value-added downstream products such as oleochemical derivatives, food and health products and second-generation biofuels.This point was made by vice chairman of the Malaysian Palm Oil Association Boon Weng Siew at the association's AGM recently.

The total investment required to achieve the target is estimated at RM124bil, whereby the bulk of about 95% will come from the private sector.However, it is ironic that while the Economic Transformation Programme (ETP) for palm oil relies on the private sector to fund and drive the Government's vision, it is also the “same” Government that keeps on taxing the industry.

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