PUTRAJAYA - Pelan Tindakan Pembakaran Terbuka Kebangsaan (PTPTK) telah diaktifkan bagi membolehkan semua pihak meningkatkan pemantauan terhadap pembakaran terbuka yang boleh menyebabkan jerebu, menjejaskan kualiti udara dan kesihatan awam.

Menteri Sumber Asli dan Kelestarian Alam, Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad berkata, pelan berkenaan diaktifkan pada 21 Februari lepas bagi membolehkan kementerian, jabatan, agensi yang berkaitan dan kerajaan negeri mengambil tindakan berjaga-jaga dan mencegah pembakaran terbuka.

"JAS juga telah meningkatkan tindakan penguatkuasaan dan aktiviti pemantauan melalui darat dan udara dengan menggunakan dron, serta memantau bacaan indeks pencemaran udara (IPU) dari semasa ke semasa.

Mengenai kebakaran itu, Nik Nazmi berkata, usaha pemadaman sedang giat dijalankan oleh pihak Jabatan Bomba dan Penyelamat Malaysia (JBPM) melalui kaedah firefighting, water bombing dan kerja-kerja flooding di kawasan kebakaran dengan kerjasama pihak Jabatan Kerja Raya (JKR) dan Jabatan Pengairan dan Saliran (JPS).

Susulan bacaan IPU yang mencapai 201 hingga 300 di Balok Baru semalam, JAS telah mengeluarkan Nota Pemberitahuan Amaran 3A dan 3B kepada Pusat Kawalan Bencana Negara (NDCC), Agensi Pengurusan Bencana Negara (NADMA) untuk tindakan hebahan Notis Kesiapsiagaan Operasi Bencana di peringkat negeri dan daerah.

"Hebahan ini juga bertujuan bagi membolehkan Jawatankuasa Pengurusan Bencana Peringkat Daerah atau negeri diaktifkan, dan memastikan tindakan dapat diambil selaras dengan Pelan Tindakan Jerebu Kebangsaan,” katanya.

Nik Nazmi berkata, beliau akan mempengerusikan Mesyuarat Jawatankuasa Induk Jerebu dan Cuaca Kering Kebangsaan Bilangan 1 Tahun 2025 esok, yang antaranya akan melaporkan status terkini keadaan cuaca, kualiti udara dan sebagai platform bagi merancang tindakan dan strategi pencegahan pembakaran terbuka serta jerebu.

"Isu kebakaran yang berlaku di Ladang Kelapa Cherating, Kuantan, Pahang dan tindakan penyelarasan berkaitan akan turut dibincangkan melalui mesyuarat ini,” katanya.

Hari ini, Sultan Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah menitahkan penduduk sekitar Balok Baru terutamanya mereka yang mempunyai masalah pernafasan, untuk berhati-hati susulan pencemaran udara di kawasan itu. - Bernama

SARIKEI (March 3): Ditch clearing and river dredging works for Sungai Selidap here will be carried out soon as flood mitigation strategies, said Dato Sri Huang Tiong Sii.

The Sarikei MP and Repok assemblyman said this project will be fully monitored by the Irrigation and Drainage Department (DID) Sarikei.

“We have received complaints from residents that their areas are often flooded during heavy rainfall and high tides,” said Huang, who is also federal Deputy Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability Minister, in a statement.

Adding on, he said DID Sarikei personnel and Sarikei parliamentary service centre team led by his officer Gung Chiu Kion had conducted checks on the affected areas in Sungai Selidap.

“There are two longhouses in this area and the drains are clogged by grass, thus, need to be cleared to facilitate water flow,” he said.

Huang also expressed his gratitude and appreciation to DID Sarikei for their prompt response.

PAPAR, 2 Mac - Bom kedua yang ditemui di tapak pembinaan berhampiran Lok Kawi Plastic Industries, Kinarut dipercayai peninggalan Perang Dunia Kedua berjaya dimusnahkan hari ini.

Ketua Polis Daerah Papar Supt Kamaruddin Ambo Sakka berkata bahan letupan jenis Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) yang masih aktif itu dimusnahkan dengan tiga kali letupan secara berperingkat bermula 11.55 pagi hingga 1.25 tengah hari.

“Tiada sebarang kejadian tidak diingini berlaku sepanjang operasi kerja-kerja letupan dilakukan. Sebelum pemusnahan bom dijalankan, pihak polis memaklumkan kepada pelbagai agensi terlibat termasuk Jabatan Alam Sekitar.

“Selepas selesai kerja meletupkan bom, pasukan Ketua Polis Balai Kinarut bergerak mendapatkan maklumat dari kawasan sekitar untuk mengenal pasti sama ada pihak terkesan akibat letupan,” katanya dalam kenyataan hari ini.

Beliau berkata aktiviti itu juga mematuhi prosedur operasi standard (SOP) yang ditetapkan di bawah jawatankuasa perancangan operasi dan pengurusan risiko bencana letupan di bawah Agensi Pengurusan Bencana Negara (NADMA).

Pada 27 Feb lepas, sebutir bom lama sepanjang 120 sentimeter dengan berat 250 kilogram ditemukan oleh pekerja yang sedang melakukan kerja-kerja pembersihan di kawasan pembinaan itu pada pukul 1.30 tengah hari sebelum bom itu dimusnahkan.

- BERNAMA

SIBU (March 2): Bawang Assan assemblyman Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh has granted minor rural project (MRP) funds worth RM50,000 to support flood-affected farming households in his constituency.

This, he said, came following his dialogue sessions with the Sibu Vegetable Planters Association.

According to him, the funds would be used to help offset the farmers’ losses and support the cultivation of their crops for the next planting season.

“The affected farmers say their losses are very heavy and it may take them one or two months to recover, particularly those from Jalan Yew Chai Toh which was hit worst by the recent floods.

“It may take at least 48 days for them to grow and produce crops for sale. With significant incurred losses, they have requested for some subsidies from the government.

“On the spot, I did promise the affected farmers that I would make use of my MRP grant of RM50,000 for them to buy fertilisers, pesticides, and so forth.

“We try to help as much as possible, but of course, priority will be given to those who are very badly affected,” said Soon Koh.

Soon Koh, who is also the Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) senior vice president, told this to reporters when met after presenting the agricultural aid to the farmers in Sungai Bidut here today.

He noted that he was also informed during the dialogue session that over 100 farming households in the Sungai Bidut area were badly affected by the recent floods.

For that, he called upon the state’s Ministry of Food Industry, Commodity, and Regional Development to look into the matter as most of Sibu’s crops producers are from Sungai Bidut.

Als present during the aid presentation ceremony were PDP Bawang Assan chairman Councillor Wong Hua, Sibu Vegetable Planters Association chairman Tieu Kiu Sing, and Soon Koh’s personal assistant, Sean Wong.