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Sabah's perfect plans, perfectly forgotten
Published on: Monday, August 18, 2025
Published on: Mon, Aug 18, 2025
By: Fiona V Loijon, Anita Limjoon, Paul Canigea Pungut Text Size: IDS teams crisscrossed the districts, convening village dialogues, stakeholder workshops and council meetings to surface real community priorities in agriculture, tourism, infrastructure, health and education. SABAH has seen decades of planning. Year after year, plan upon plan, workshop upon workshop. It is all just planning! planning! planning! And in the end pending! After all that meticulous mapping, what have been done? Are there any positive outcome? Are those blueprints or strategic planning ever being executed? The story begins with an outpouring of ideas. The State ministries and federal agencies have drafted regional structure plans that promised balanced growth across urban centres and rural hinterlands. Local land-use schemes charted zoning for agriculture, commerce and conservation. Detailed landscape proposals envisioned green corridors along our rivers and mangrove buffers on our coasts. Most ambitiously of all, the Institute for Development Studies Sabah (IDS) spearheaded a Strategic District Development Plan that wove every agency's initiative as well as the needs and wants of the grassroot people into one coherent roadmap. Subscribe or LOG IN to access this article.
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