Model of Sustainable Village for Kampung Sedili Kecil in Johor, Malaysia
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International Journal of Basic Sciences and Applied Computing (IJBSAC) ISSN: 2394-367X, Volume-2 Issue-9, November 2019 Model of Sustainable Village for Kampung Sedili Kecil in Johor, Malaysia Maqsood Rezayee, Tan Wee Huat, Norsa’adah Shamsudin, Mathivanan Muthusamy, Sutapa Tasnim Abstract: The economic growth and energy consumption I. INTRODUCTION come at the cost of environmental degradation, sustainability experts are trying to find the way which can reduce pollution, The economic growth and energy consumption come at conserve the natural resource and protect the environment. the cost of environmental degradation, sustainability experts Moreover, regional and rural development strategy pay attention are trying to find the way which can reduce pollution, to the goal of sustainability to ensure its continuum. conserve the natural resource and protect the environment Sustainability such as sustainable ecosystem, sustainable [1]. community, sustainable village, and sustainable lifestyle support Moreover, regional and rural development strategy pay itself and its surrounding. Moreover, Sustainability ensuring attention to the goal of sustainability to ensure its continuum access of human beings to the basic resource, healthcare facilities, education facilities, good quality of life, with capacity of [2]. Sustainability narrowly defines as the protection or conserving environmental capital, human capital, social capital, conservation of the physical and biotic environment [1]. economic capital, and cultural capital. Therefore, a sustainable In the latter conception, environmental protection is treated village is designed to achieve the highest levels of ecological and as a counterbalance to the main business of developing the environmental sustainability with a holistic approach to the basic economy, creating jobs and providing local people with the site selection, sub-division planning, and construction, through to services and facilities that they want [1- 4]. the requirements of the built environment. Malaysia is one of the Sustainability such as sustainable ecosystem, sustainable countries which has many villages, the villages are not without community, sustainable village, and sustainable lifestyle problems, which are lagging behind in socio-economic support itself and its surrounding [1]. Sustainability focuses on development due generally to prevalence of very low level of environmental protection to avoid destroying the environment literacy, and education and, heavy dependence on primary and ensure that the impacts of human activity are minimized. production, agriculture, animal husbandry, and fishery. Furthermore, sustainability ensuring access of human beings to Therefore, it is needed to conduct a study to find the strengths, the basic resource, healthcare facilities, education facilities, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the village. Thus, this good quality of life [3]. Moseley [1] defines sustainability as research has been conducted to study the Kampung Sedili Kecil “the capacity for continuance into long-term future.” It is built village which one of the villages in the Johor state of Malaysia. around the notion of conserving capital, such as environmental The main aim of the research is to prepare a model of a capital, human capital, social capital, manufactured capital, sustainable village for Kampung Sedili Kecil to ensure that all cultural capital [1]. capital to be integrated and symbiosis relationship that may enable the continuation of the community and conserved and A sustainable village is designed to achieve the highest enhanced the environmental capital, human capital, social levels of ecological and environmental sustainability with a capital, economic capital, and cultural capital in the Kampung holistic approach to the basic site selection, sub-division Sedili Kecil. planning, and construction, through to the requirements of the Keywords: Sustainable, Village, Capital, Kampung Sedili built environment [3]. The sustainable village has water supply, Kecil. Johor, Malaysia. sewerage system and road systems, recycle all water for reuse on-site, generate most of its own energy and make major contributions to its residents’ food needs [3]. Revised Manuscript Received on November 15, 2019. The model of the sustainable village is important, and it Correspondence Author * must ensure that the overall vision and objectives will be Maqsood Rezayee*, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, achieved and must ensure that all homes are energy-efficient, Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi safe and comfortable, that residents’ investment and quality of Malaysia, Skudai, 81310 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia. Email:[email protected] life are protected, as well as physically and socially cohesive Tan Wee Huat, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty community will flourish [3, 4]. of Built Environment and surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Model of development for village is action plan for the Skudai, 81310 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia; Email: development of rural area or areas which are lagging behind in [email protected] socio-economic development due generally to prevalence of Norsa’adah Shamsudin, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Built Environment and surveying, Universiti very low level of literacy, education and heavy dependence on Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, 81310 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia; Email: primary production, agriculture, animal husbandry, and fishery [email protected] moreover, social and development of social and physical Mathivanan Muthusamy, Department of Urban and Regional infrastructures are lagging behind [3, 4]. Then, for the Planning, Faculty of Built Environment and surveying, Universiti development of the model, it is essential to give attention to the Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, 81310 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia; Email: development of human resources, basic physical infrastructure. [email protected] Sutapa Tasnim, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty A holistic approach in this direction necessitates giving high of Built Environment and surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, priority for bringing about improvement in the socio-economic Skudai, 81310 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia; Email: condition of the weaker sections of the population [3-5]. [email protected] © The Authors. Published by Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering and Sciences Publication (BEIESP). This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) Retrieval Number: I0149122919/2019©BEIESP Published By: DOI: 10.35940/ijbsac.I0149.122919 Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering & Sciences Publication Journal Website: www.ijbsac.org 14 © Copyright: All rights reserved. Model of Sustainable Village for Kampung Sedili Kecil in Johor, Malaysia Great rural planners have been given importance to self- III. STUDY AREA. reliance and the integration of village resources [4]. It is Sedili Kecil is a small village located in Mukim Sedili accepted that the ideal village is not possible to exist, but a Kecil on the east coast of Johor. The village is located at the complete and continuous effort by including, such as mouth of the Sedili Kechil River as it drains into the South environmental capital, human capital, social capital, China Sea [7]. The Pengerang region which is part of the manufactured capital and cultural capital in the model will area under Johor Tenggara Development Authority ensure the continuation of the village [4-6]. (KEJORA) shares its border with Iskandar Malaysia but is Malaysia is one of the countries which has many separated by the Johor River. It comprises of total area villages, the villages are not without problems, which are 123830 Hectare covers under 5 Mukims [7]. lagging behind in socio-economic development due to the The village is part of Sedili, which includes the town of prevalence of very low level of literacy, and education and, Tanjung Sedili. Moreover, Sedili Kecil is a traditional heavy dependence on primary production, agriculture, Malay fisherman village. The major economies of the local animal husbandry, and fishery. Therefore, it is needed to population are diverse [7]. Based on the finding of this conduct a study to find the strengths, weaknesses, research its main source of income comes from fishing, opportunities, and threats of the village. Thus, this research small grocery business and working in nearby oil palm has been conducted to study the Kampung Sedili Kecil estates. village which one of the villages in Malaysia. The main aim of the research is to prepare a model of a IV. RESULT AND FINDING sustainable village for Kampung Sedili Kecil to ensure that This section of research presents the finding and results all capital to be integrated and symbiosis relationship that may enable the continuation of the community and which have been obtained through interview and survey conserved and enhanced the environmental, human, social, focus group discussion. The result and finding presents the existing situation of each capital: environmental capital, economic and cultural capitals in the Kampung Sedili Kecil. human capital, social capital, economic capital and cultural capital. II. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY A. Environmental Capital The research method for this research is the empirical mix mode research method, which encompasses the Environmental capital, which comprises stocks and qualitative and quantitative data collection