Johoreans are supportive of Forest City

| Yet again, the Forest City project in Johor has made headlines in recent weeks and has become the target of considerable press coverage – nationally and internationally. From being antagonised by certain quarters to a temporary ban on foreign owners and now environmental concerns over Sungai Pulai mangrove area, there seems to be a lot of national focus on Forest City for reasons best known to certain “people”.

We cannot simply base our position on an ideology and reject any form of development without considering its potential benefit to the local economy. We need FDI badly and foreigners investing in Malaysian properties or spending money here bring hard cash into Malaysia. Development on this scale will also provide job opportunities amongst the locals. I was told that the hotel in the golf resort has over 150 local employees making up 90 per cent of the total hotel staff. And so far, the Forest City project has created 1,200 job opportunities for locals, equivalent to an 80 percent localisation rate of the total employee workforce.

It is set to help revive golf tourism in Johor which was popular back in the 1990s but dwindled due to a gamut of factors including competition from golf clubs in Indonesia and Thailand. We are losing our tourism dollars to our neighbouring countries and also losing out in improving our economy and improving the value of the ringgit.

No. I dont support Forest City..

Wow. No more selling the state to china.

Claiming ‘locals are supportive’ but without any survey report, statistical data or any interview with the locals.. malaysiakini’s reporting std is going down the monsoon drain

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