Development Induced Displacement in Malaysia
[MUSIC PLAYING] REAZUL AHSAN: I am Dr. Reazul Ahsan, a visiting scholar of MIT UTM Malaysian sustainable city program. I am presenting two stories of development induced displacement in Malaysia. One follows up with communities affected by a hydroelectric dam in East Malaysia. The other addresses an ongoing housing development project on the southern tip of peninsula Malaysia. Malaysia is one of the world's fastest developing nations. Under its own militia program, the government [INAUDIBLE] be a developed country by 2025. Accordingly, federal and state governments are intensively investing in infrastructure development, especially in housing, energy, and manufacturing sectors. However, many national infrastructure development programs fail to consider indigenous poor and marginalized communities, who have very limited voice in planning these mega projects. From 1980 to 1990, almost 10 million people were displaced in South Asia due to development projects, like hydro...