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Transboundary Haze Pollution: The policy in Malaysia
Ruzaihan bin Zainudd
Wan Mariam Wan Abdullah
Bachelor of Management (Maritime)
School of Maritime Business and Management
This research discusses issues related to air quality caused by transboundary haze
pollution. Transboundary haze pollution is a global concern that seems to be an annual
phenomenon particularly in the ASEAN region. Despite of the regional effort was
introduced by the ASEAN which is Asean Agreement Transboundary Haze Pollution to
solve the problem, the results are not so convincing. It requires every country to take
action plan at national level. Thus, this research aimed to examine what are the
existing policy used by Malaysia to tackle transboundary haze pollution and to examine
the effectiveness of that policy. Using a qualitative methodology, the data of this
research was obtained through secondary sources and semi-structured interview with
the respondents who are involved with the making and enforcing the policy like
Department Of Environment, Ministry of Foreign Affair, Natural Resource Environment
and Embassy of The Republic of Indonesia. Documentary and content analysis was
used to analyse the secondary sources in order to identify the existing policy used by
Malaysia. SWOT analysis was used to examine the effectiveness of the existing policy
in Malaysia and to recommend alternative solution to solve the issue of transboundary
haze pollution. The finding of this research shows that other than Asean
Transboundary Haze Pollution (AATHP), Malaysia has entered into several regional
programmes with Indonesia which was aimed at reducing the cause of haze pollution.
At national level, Malaysia has relied on Environmental Act 1974 as the main
instrument to protect haze pollution.
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