Kelab Alami Mukim Tanjung Kupang, Johor

Environmental citizenship for inclusive sustainable development: the case of Kelab Alami in Mukim Tanjung Kupang, Johor, Malaysia

24/12/2019

Publication: Journal of the Indian Ocean Region
Date published: 24 December 2019
Author: Serina Rahman

ABSTRACT
Using environmental citizenship as the basis of its activities and initiatives, a community organisation, Kelab Alami, successfully combined environmental action with a socio-ecological systems approach to counter environmental and social injustice. The organisation fused traditional ecological knowledge with science for use in community-initiated ecotourism; engaged with surrounding developers, local authorities and the state government to mitigate environmental damage and maximize job opportunities for the community; nurtured and supported local entrepreneurship efforts and continues to spread environmental awareness and protection. This paper traces the development of Kelab Alami, the training and empowerment of youthful citizen scientists, and its attempt to garner multi-level support and collaboration for its environmental actions. This is a grounded illustration of resource mobilization in action, and a local view of a community’s efforts to cope with poverty, environmental degradation and urbanization; a model that could be adapted and adopted by other communities facing similar circumstances and threats.

Article link: https://doi.org/10.1080/19480881.2020.1704986

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Overcoming the Challenges of Sustainable Coastal Development in Southeast Asia

28/9/2018

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Funded by Kelab Alami (self-funded)

Date published: 28 September 2018

Author: Serina Rahman (ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore)
This paper describes a model for sustainable coastal development through citizen science and community empowerment, using Kelab Alami as a case study. The article highlights how the model can be applied and adapted to suit other locations in Southeast Asia with similar characteristics, challenges and threats.

Article link: http://th.boell.org/en/2018/09/28/overcoming-challenges-sustainable-coastal-development-southeast-asia

Variations on this study of the use of citizen science and community empowerment for coastal habitat conservation have also been published or presented at the following:

Coastal Habitat Conservation Using Community Education As a Tool: A Case Study in Mukim Tanjung Kupang, Johor – Serina Rahman PhD Thesis (University Teknologi MARA: 2014)

Using Citizen Science for Community Empowerment – presented by Dr Serina Rahman at the Citizen Science in Southeast Asia Conference, Yale-NUS Singapore, 4 March 2017

From environmental education to community capacity-building: Kelab Alami and community engagement through seagrass – presented by Nur Syazwani bt Ali at the World Seagrass Conference 2018, University Town Singapore, 11 June 2018.

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Citizen science mapping of the seagrass of Merambong Island, Johor, Malaysia

11/6/2018

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Funded by Forest City

Date published or presented: 11 June 2018

Authors: *Nur Afiqah bt Md Soo’t , *Mohd Arif A.B. Mohd Fazail, **Serina Rahman
*Kelab Alami Mukim Tanjung Kupang
**ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute

This poster presents the results of a 5-month citizen science mapping, documentation and monitoring exercise of seagrass patches around Merambong Island. The work was done at 2-4 week intervals during the 5-month sampling period (dependent upon a suitable tide). While the nearby Tanjung Adang and Tanjung Kupang seagrass meadows have been extensively studied, there is little information on the seagrass of Merambong Island. This poster was presented at the World Seagrass Conference 2018 in Singapore.

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Forest City: A Case Study of a Real Estate Megaproject in Asia

31/8/2017

Authors: Prof Lawrence Susskind, Takeo Kuwabara, Marcel Williams, Alaa Mukahhal, Nick Allen, Mira Vale, Sam Barnard, Griffin Smith (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

with contributions and translation by: Dr Serina Rahman (ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute)
fieldwork assistance: Syahida Azali and Jannah Razak (Kelab Alami Mukim Tg Kupang)
transcription: Nur Afiqah bt So'ot (Kelab Alami Mukim Tg Kupang)

This interactive, multimedia case tells the ongoing story of a high-profile Chinese real estate developer (Country Garden) building the largest gated community (Forest City) in Asia for as many as 700,000 residents at an estimated cost of $100 billion, on reclaimed land in the Strait of Johor, between Malaysia and Singapore. The controversy that arose in 2014 over the social and environmental impacts of the project caused the Malaysian courts to stop the project temporarily, even though state and local permits had been granted. This led to a somewhat scaled-down version of the project, as well as a requirement that the developer pay compensation to fisherman and villagers who were already adversely affected.

Published 2017 in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Community Uses of Seagrass Meadows in Sungai Pulai Estuary

14/3/2017

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Funded by Kelab Alami (Self-funded)

Date published or presented: 14 March 2017
Authors:
*Serina Rahman, **Nur Afiqah bt So’ot, **Muhd Sofi b Juhari, **Mohd Irfan b Yazid
*ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore
**Kelab Alami Mukim Tg Kupang

The local community of Mukim Tanjung Kupang are highly dependent on the seagrass meadows in the Sungai Pulai estuary as a source of livelihood through fishing, gleaning, transport services, research, education and tourism. This study plots community uses of this area based on 8 years of anthropological and community research. This habitat use is then mapped against future development plans to illustrate potential threats and losses to local incomes. This research was presented at the JSPS-CCore-RENSEA First Joint Seminar on Coastal Ecosystems in Southeast Asia in March 2017 and is published as conference proceedings.

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Environmental citizenship for inclusive sustainable development: the case of Kelab Alami in Mukim Tanjung Kupang, Johor, Malaysia

Overcoming the Challenges of Sustainable Coastal Development in Southeast Asia

Citizen science mapping of the seagrass of Merambong Island, Johor, Malaysia

Forest City: A Case Study of a Real Estate Megaproject in Asia

Community Uses of Seagrass Meadows in Sungai Pulai Estuary

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