No Thanks To Johor Eco Park Developers!

Johor town BH farmers are in deep shit now!!!



Someone has drafted another proposals to wipe out the town BHs in Johor.



These proposals are drafted by people with very big hidden agenda, without the involvement of the Johor BN association, instead, only involved the Eco Park Developers.



As we know, Johor is one of the states that has the most Eco Parks developed.



Recently, we have

1) Eco Park in Simpang Renggam



Jointly developed by :



i) SSB Development Bhd (subsidiary of Swiftlet Sanctury Berhad) from JB.



ii) Julung Cipta Sdn Bhd (State Govt subsidiary)



iii) YWJ Citra (State Govt GLC)



Supported by UTM & Jabatan Pertanian Johor and Consultant : ShuangYan.



Proposed to construct 50 units of 3 storey terrace BH size 22'x 80'. Phase 1 launching 10 units. Selling price RM580k per unit.

2) Eco Park in Mersing

Developed by :

Swiftlet Property Management Sdn Bhd. from Mersing.

Proposed to construct 28 units of 4 storeys terrace BHs, size 24' x 80', Selling price per unit = RM 750k onwards.

3) Eco Park in Tangkak, Johor. Touted as "Suria Eco Park"

Developed by :

Yenzheka Bird Nest Design Specialist (1st BN house contractor ISO 9001 compliance)



Proposed to construct 65 units of BHs. Selling price per unit = RM 570 k.

Launching date : 18/1/09. Expected to complete within 2 years.

If the proposal materialises, it will affect thousands of town BHs in the cities especially JB, BP, Muar, Segamat... and also those towns like Simpang Renggam, Tangkak, Mersing and so on...



Appended below are the links to the uncalled-for proposals:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/mkwunqwjmkj/f_johor0m_37dca46 Page1.jpg

http://www.mediafire.com/file/mf0jqz1mmyw/f_johor1m_61b3011 Page2.jpg

http://www.mediafire.com/file/4lgjhzm4zwg/f_johor3m_a619b10 Page3.jpg

http://www.mediafire.com/file/yezjjthztz2/f_johor4m_612ca69 Page4.jpg

http://www.mediafire.com/file/neg2mkzzkxy/f_johor5m_861eceb Page5.jpg

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ynmonjyde5m/f_johor6m_fd50b58 Page6.jpg

http://www.mediafire.com/file/cymqjdjmmjz/f_johor7m_768c0fc Page7.jpg

http://www.mediafire.com/file/nydglezmudt/f_johor8m_e8ad122 Page8.jpg

http://www.mediafire.com/file/zwn2nknwilz/f_johor9m_232aa92 Page9.jpg

http://www.mediafire.com/file/rmf3gn5ydxz/f_johor10m_d65cca0 Page10.jpg

http://www.mediafire.com/file/5mjmzt0ggiw/f_johor11m_13b4d11 Page11.jpg

http://www.mediafire.com/file/dyn1owzzd2j/f_johor13m_c45243d Page12.jpg

My dear Johor friends, this is gonna be a tough uphill battlefield...

God bless us..

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Eco-park - do you think it will work?

Some BH ranchers from Johor have to pay hefty compound in lieu of the BH license fee every year due to unable to obtain permit from the respective local council for running their BHs.

Every time I think of this so-called “annual fee”, my heart will start getting TL!!!

Just because of a few recalcitrant BH owners and the infamous eco-parks are being launched, we all have to make do with running the town BH illegally without being given the opportunity to prove ourselves that we are qualified for the license and we are equally capable of operating the BHs by adhering with the GAHP guidelines & NGL.

Doing BH in town and operating of Eco-parks in outskirts are two separate investments and issues but fall under same industry. It is quite analogical to the rubber and oil palm planting industries. The planting industry also has 2 categories; the small holders and the large estates. The planting industry started from individual holders encouraged by the Govt to aid in the locals’ income to rid of poverty. Later big corporations come into picture by turning huge forests into large plantations. Both co-existed till today.


I fully support Lucas 1’s argument of “analogy”. One man's meat is another man's poison. Eco-park is suitable for big corporations, not the small timers’ cup of tea!!!

However, sad but true, it is not unusual to say that not all states feel comfortable to see both co-exist. Many a time, perverse refusal of town BH & on the other hand welcomingly embrace the eco-park by the authorities is what we are facing right now, as far as Johor state is concerned.


Our lamentation is not unfounded, judging by the ever-increasing numbers of eco-park projects and the freezing of license application, we have every reason to feel worried about the coming bumpy road lying ahead.

Frankly speaking, if the town BHs are allowed to flourish like the eco-park, I really do not give a hoot whether it is eco-park or ecock park or tcock park! If we are forced to accept it, I think we should shoot it down until the last bullets.

Sometimes I can’t help but keep asking the questions:
What is so extraordinarily special with this eco-park? Why eco-park is legal but not town BHs?


Correct me if I am wrong. In eco-parks, the buildings constructed are called eco-BHs, not shop houses even though they look like shop houses in towns. Funny thing is that most eco parks are also built in towns, and they are not built on agriculture lands. The differences VS town BH which I can think of are that i) they are permitted with license ii) but cannot be used for commercial & business purpose. So all the smart investors please think thrice before making the buying decision, if the eco park BH fails, your investment will not be recovered-it’s a total loss!!!.

Once we skip the differences, we can comfortably say that the so-called eco-park is just same like the town BHs. It is LPPL!!!

As both are providing the ecosystem or sanctuary for the swiftlet, why can’t we let the town BH has the license too? Or is it simply because of the name of “eco-park” is more sophisticated?

Ok, fine, as you wish, let the town BHs change name to eco-park lah! After all it’s just a name only. What’s the big deal?

I wish to say that changing name is not something impossible. I have seen a whole row of shop houses all converted to BHs, just due to the very reason that the location is not suitable for doing none other business. Since the authority is so fond of the name of “eco-park”, the owners might as well convert their BHs to eco-park so long as they can be granted the license to operate. The council this time has no reason to turn down the license application. We do not care it is black cat or white cat, as long as it can catch the rat it is a good cat.

Again above is just my humble 2 cents.

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Site ready for Ground Beam

The backhoe moved in today to level the ground previously excavated to construct the footings. The entire work was completed within half a day and my workers proceeded to set up the the ground beams right away.

In the afternoon received call from Harry's blog readers, Henry Law and H.K.Ting from the Krai Eco Park who are coming to KT to have a look at the birdhouses and accepted their request to take them around. I took them firstly to the swiftlet central area which is in Kg. Cina, Jalan Tok Lam and Jalan Hiliran and then to those along the flight path and show them a few successful and not successful birdhouses. They did 2 bird calls, one at a proposed Eco Park and another just outside my site. They were quite impressed with the result of the bird call at my site.

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