The Selangor Forestry Department clarified today that the gazette notification (GN 1645-2022) to degazette the Bukit Cerakah Forest Reserve on May 5 is to complete the delisting process that stopped around 2006.

Its director, Ahmad Fadzil Abdul Majid said that based on Section 13, Enactment (Application) of the Selangor State Forestry Act (EAPN) 1985, the state authority must notify of any permanent forest reserve area that has been degazetted.