The village politics behind illegal factory in MACC probe


Looi Sue-Chern

The pits at the illegal factory off Jalan Sungai Lembu continue to have burning embers even after firemen tried putting them out on Monday. – The Malaysian Insight pic, August 17, 2017.

HIDDEN in an oil palm estate at the Penang-Kedah border, off Jalan Sungai Lembu and about a kilometre from a Chinese village, is a carbon-filter processing factory at the centre of a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) probe involving its manager and director, and a Penang exco.

Away from the media headlines on exco Phee Boon Poh’s recent arrest and the DAP state government’s cries of political harassment are hints of local politics at the village level, with state- and national-level repercussions.


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