COMMENT Because the menteris besar in some of our peninsular states are no longer paying attention to the people’s grievances, the non-government organisations and journalists are doing more justice to the people.

Like I mentioned in Part 1 of this series, in some states, the state chiefs appear indifferent towards the environment or the ecological balance, which is so important for the livelihood of the local community, and their future generations, and they continue to issue concessions to capitalise on the state’s natural resources.

Whenever a disaster hits, some of these menteris besar can only deny that it was caused by the degradation to the environment, which their logging and mining concessions have caused.