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> Nicholas Mujah, Setiausaha Agung SADIA – Peraturan EU terpakai untuk mengekalkan kelestarian alam sekitar jangka panjang, ia adalah penting
> Nick Kelesau Naan, Jurucakap Pertubuhan Penan Keruan – UBFA diuruskan oleh komuniti sendiri, tiada lagi pencerobohan hutan berlaku
> Wesley Ancho Mering, dari PKR Belaga – Membina jalan raya adalah alasan, tetapi sebenarannya adalah pembalakan
> Sharmila dari Sahabat Alam Malaysia – Sahabat Alam Malaysia mahu laman web kerajaan sehenti untuk data perhutanan, pemuliharaan
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> Nicholas Mujah, General Secretary SADIA – EU regulations apply to maintain long-term environmental sustainability, it is important
> Nick Kelesau Naan, Spokesperson for the Penan Keruan Organization – UBFA is managed by community itself, will be no more forest encroachment happened
> Wesley Ancho Mering, from PKR Belaga – Building roads is an excuse, but the truth is logging
> Sharmila of Sahabat Alam Malaysia – Sahabat Alam Malaysia wants one-stop govt website for forestry, conservation data
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Nicholas Mujah claims that DOPPA misunderstood the European Union's Deforestation-free Products Regulation- EUDR. The EU is not that cruel to restrict the sale of smallholder palm oil. But EU regulations apply to maintain long-term environmental sustainability.
According to Nicholas, the EU buys and will continue to buy Malaysian palm oil as long as it complies with the criteria of sustainable oil palm plantations, and the EU gives up to 5 years for compliance. Among the criteria required by the EU is legal land ownership and easen. Must not usurp the rights of others/Original.
Second is social responsibility - respecting the rights, culture and local customs/wills and needs of the local community and thirdly environmental sustainability such as protected forest areas, catchment areas, clean rivers, historic areas and areas of particular importance to the community. As long as all parties comply with all these rules. The EU has no problem buying their commodity crops.
Nicholas Mujah stressed that the enforcement of the EUDR regulations is important to deal with the issue of unethical farming and confiscation of indigenous people's customary land which is so widespread in Sarawak.
