JOHOR DUN | Pulau Kukup in Pontian will remain a national park, Johor Menteri Besar Osman Sapian stated today.

"Upon discussion, His Highness Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar is agreeable that Pulau Kukup retains its use as a Johor national park, and be minded and guarded by the state government under the Johor National Parks Corporation," he said.

Many quarters had protested when news came to light that the island, one of five sites in Malaysia recognised by the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, had been degazetted as a national park...