This is the sad story of Pantai Manis (Papar, Sabah). Once upon a time, this (now-deserted) beach used to be very popular among local and outside tourists.
Pantai ini pernah ceria dengan pelbagai aktiviti komuniti. Bukan saja tempat para pelancong bersantai, bahkan jadi tumpuan ratusan keluarga tempatan (terutama sekitar Papar dan Kota Kinabalu). Pantai Manis menyediakan ruang untuk para ibubapa dan anak-anak berckelah, serta mengukuhkan semangat keluarga (sambil menikmati panorama alam anugerah Ilahi).
Sadly, those were all some yesteryear memories that had long gone. Could be forever. For the past few years, Pantai Manis has been experiencing (yes, it still does!) a dramatic change – geomorphologically.
Pantai yang dulunya putih dan luas, kini semakin sempit dan terhakis. Year by year, it moves further towards the mainland. Banyak kemudahan asas (gerai, jalanraya, etc) rosak. Bahkan, elemen-elemen estetik asli Pantai Manis turut dibinasakan.
What has happened? Sutera Harbour might have the answer.
Sutera Harbour adalah rangkaian hotel/resort super-mewah yang bertaraf lima bintang di KK. Dibina di atas tanah tambak seluas 380 ekar, lebih kurang 2.5 km daripada pelabuhan utama KK. Proses penambakan ini telah mengubahsuai proses dan pola geomorfologi pinggir laut di sekitar pantai barat Sabah – terutama dari KK-Papar. Akibat pengubahsuaian struktur asli ini, sebahagian besar tenaga ombak semulajadi telah dipindahkan ke kawasan-kawasan lain – termasuk Pantai Manis.
Sutera Harbour is specially built by the so-called super-rich capitalists to cater the needs of some minority bourgeoisies. Golongan kapitalis ini mengira untung setiap tahun. Para bourgeois pula senang-senang mendapat segala macam kemudahan elit di Sutera Harbour.
Malangnya, Pantai Manis (dan, ratusan ahli komuniti tempatan – the working class especially!) – have to pay the price for this newly-created luxury. Yes, a luxury that they, themselves, will never have the opportunity to taste.
How sad is that? And remember, this is only a tiny slice of a much bigger reality.
PS: (Kononnya) terdapat kajian impak yang dijalankan oleh HYDEC Engineering Sdn. Bhd. untuk projek tambakan ini (prior to the development of Sutera Harbour). Hmm?
Posted at 08:30 am by geografiums
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Name Saadiah
July 31, 2006 10:23 PM PDT
Kesan kepada generasi akan datang betapa rugi manusia yang rakus |
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Arnold Samih
April 2, 2006 12:28 PM PDT
Pembinaan Sutera Harbour sememangnya menjanjikan peluang ekonomi kepada negeri Sabah. Namun, bagi saya ia telah memberikan suatu kesan buruk di mana penambakan ini telah membunuh habitat pelbagai spesies hidupan laut serta mengubah morfologi negeri Sabah.
Pinggir pantai yang sangat sensetif terhadap sebarang perubahan persekitaran seharusnya dijaga dan dipulihara kerana sebarang perubahan persekitaran akan memberikan impak yang besar bukan sahaja kepada hidupan laut dan pinggir pantai tetapi kesan ini juga akan dirasai oleh manusia.
Pembinaan sutera Harbour juga telah mencacatkan pemandangan cantik di Pantai Manis serta merosakkan struktur pantainya. Kesan ini tidak dirasai oleh golongan kapitalis kerana Pantai Manis bukan destinasi mereka, namun bagi golongan penduduk yang tidak mampu menjejakkan kaki ke Sutera Harbour, pantai Manis ini merupakan destinasi pelancongan mereka.
Oleh itu, secara kesimpulannya, sebelum sebarang penambakan laut di jalankan, masyarakat umumnya Kerajaan harus memikirkan kesan baik dan buruk dalam jangka masa yang panjang. |
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cuela mina
February 14, 2006 12:19 PM PST
so sad,i think the management of sutera harbour should see this impact as a serious impact to our environment especially to pantai kimanis.money give nothing..but destroy our nature. |
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Jeff Crayton
January 18, 2006 08:44 PM PST
I think that we can do something about the situation like Pantai Manis, papar. We can make a report not just in Pantai Manis but also a place similarly like what had happened there.
Kita boleh gunakan data yang diperoleh nanti untuk membangkitkan kesedaran bukan sahaja jabatan2 yang berkaitan supaya mengorak langkah untuk mengambil langkah2 penting bagi memelihara kawasan yang pada mulanya indah malah kepada para kontruktor. Peace to all.... |
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RD
January 16, 2006 02:57 PM PST
We can arrange a trip to Pantai Manis if everyone agrees. It can be one of our 'practical'. |
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Alvira Simon
January 16, 2006 02:14 PM PST
i agree with stanley.. why not we make a trip to Pantai Manis to experience itself..it will be better for us to understand what is really happens to our environment nowadays.. people will not care if we only talk and tell them, but i think people will be more aware if they experience itself..thank q.. |
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Stanley Anak Suab
January 12, 2006 02:41 PM PST
I think that the human made modification on the coast line of west coast especially Sutera Harbor does effect geomophological changes of Pantai Manis in Papar. Yet, this issue is quite controversial from political aspect because it has something to do with the state goverment policy. An investigation or analysis should be done to detect these changes. Perhaps an analysis of an air borne foto form many different time frame could help elaborate these changes. The results might convince and support the evidence of present day change of Pantai Manis. To Mr Ramzah; Sir, why dont we take a trip to Pantai Manis and experience the sad story of Pantai Manis there. May be this case is a good "Alat Bantu Mengajar" for us to learn about EIA.
I think ah, the idea of balance between the aspects of both physical and human environment in 'Pinggir Pantai' by Mr Ramzah last lecture does make sense.
Why im agree?
The coast line nowadays actually a result of the process that happens for a thousands2 of years ago. It comprise of a selections of physical aspect such as geological structures of the soil, the vegitation, the organisms etc, that helps create the shape of the coast line. The evolution process continues untill all of the natural elements reaches balance stage. Once disturb there will be no more balance and once again the process have to start from the begining.
Supporting point.
-West coast coast line modifications by human cause imbalance of the geomorphology of the whole systems in makro view.
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