Ariel Peter Pan dipenjara 3 tahun setengah - 31 Januari 2011

Ariel dan Luna Maya sebelum mahkamah di Bandung bersidang pada 31 Januari 2011

Kasihan Ariel.. bekas pemain bolakeranjang NBA Amerika Syarikat, Wilt Chamberlain meniduri 20,000 wanita tetapi tiada tindakan diambil. Begitu juga sensasi golf dunia Tiger Woods, Raja Swaziland yang mempunyai 100 isteri, pengasas majalah Playboy Hugh Hefner yang meniduri 10 wanita 1 malam sekaligus setiap malam, sepanjang hayatnya, Penyanyi Julio Iglesias yang dikatakan mempunyai 1,500 anak hasil hubungan dengan ribuan wanita, Maharaja China zaman dulu yang mempunyai 1,000 bini bini atau gundik dan ramai lagi Kasanova, Don Juan dan Playboy di luar sana... tetapi tiada tindakan diambil.

Ariel hanya berasmaradana dengan 2 wanita iaitu Cut Tari dan Luna Maya yang dicintainya, namun 1 dunia sudah tahu.. hmmmm... tidak adil buat Ariel dan peminat peminat Ariel..

Sabar saja Ariel yaaa...

Sumber berita : Berita Harian online / Bernama

BANDUNG, Indonesia, Isnin, 31 Januari 2011 :

Vokalis terkenal Indonesia, Ariel Peterpan atau nama sebenarnya Nazriel Irham, dijatuhi hukuman penjara tiga tahun enam bulan dan didenda Rp250 juta (RM84,000) atau penjara tiga bulan oleh Mahkamah Dearah Bandung hari ini, Isnin, 31 Januari 2011 setelah didapati bersalah membuat dan mengedar video pornografi membabitkan dirinya sebagai pelaku dengan artis Luna Maya dan Cut Tari.

Keputusan itu dibaca oleh Ketua Majelis Hakim kes itu Singgih Budi Prakoso pada perbicaraan secara terbuka yang penuh sesak dengan orang ramai serta wartawan. Sebelum ini, perbicaraan diadakan secara tertutup.

Mendengar keputusan itu, beberapa wanita peminat Ariel kelihatan menangis.Hukuman itu adalah lebih ringan daripada tuntutan pihak pendakwaan pada 6 Januari lalu yang meminta mahkamah menjatuhkan hukuman penjara selama lima tahun ke terhadap penyanyi itu.

Dalam keputusan hari ini, majlis tiga orang hakim sepakat menyatakan bahawa Ariel terbukti melanggar Undang-undang Tentang Pornografi 2008 dan Undang-undang Jenayah.

Kes pengedaran video porno dirinya dengan kekasihnya, Luna Maya dan artis Cut Tari tahun lalu menggemparkan negara dan menghebohkan masyarakat apabila ia tersebar dengan cepat di internet sehingga dapat diakses termasuk melalui telefon bimbit.

Di jejaring sosial, kes ini yang dikenali sebagai "Ariel Peterporn" turut menarik perhatian dunia dalam banyak akaun twitter.

Ariel dan Luna Maya tidak mengakui bahawa mereka adalah pelaku dalam aksi porno itu, namun Cut Tari membuat pengakuan dan memohon maaf secara terbuka bahawa video itu benar antara dirinya dan Ariel, dan mempertahankan kenyataan itu sebagai saksi dalam perbicaraan kes Ariel itu.


Cut Tari


Luna Maya

Ariel, yang kelihatan tersenyum mendengar keputusan hakim seperti sudah menduga hukuman yang akan diterima hari ini, tidak memberi apa-apa kenyataan apabila ditanya oleh hakim sama ada akan mengemukakan rayuan terhadap keputusan itu.

Penyanyi itu diberi waktu seminggu untuk mengemukakan rayuannya.

Ariel dikawal ketat oleh anggota polis semasa dibawa keluar dari ruang persidangan mahkamah melalui pintu belakang bagi mengelak dikerumuni wartawan dan orang ramai.

Di luar mahkamah, ratusan penunjuk perasaan bersedia sejak pagi untuk melakukan demonstrasi sehingga menyebabkan lalulintas di Jalan Marthadinata di sini menjadi sesak.

Mereka terdiri daripada dua kumpulan iaitu penyokong yang menamakan diri sebagai "Sahabat Peterpan" dan kumpulan masyarakat termasuk beberapa pergerakan radikal Islam, yang mengutuk perbuatan Ariel.

Kumpulan radikal Islam menyatakan rasa kecewa mereka terhadap keputusan itu dan menunut mahkamah menjatuhkan hukuman lebih berat terhadap Ariel.

Selepas keputusan, berlaku insiden melempar batu oleh beberapa penunjuk perasaan ke arah kumpulan penyokong Ariel namun keadaan dapat dikawal.
Demonstrasi luar mahkamah berlaku setiap kali perbicaraan kes Ariel berlangsung sejak ia bermula pada 22 November tahun lalu.



Peter Pan di mana Ariel adalah vokalis utama dan peneraju utamanya, adalah antara band terhebat pernah dilahirkan Indonesia selain daripada kumpulan Dewa, Koes Plus, The Mercy's, D'Lloyd, Samson dan Ungu.

Antara lagu paling terkenal Peter Pan adalah "Ada Apa denganmu", "Mungkin Nanti", "Topeng" dan banyak lagi.

Sabar Ariel... ramai lagi lelaki di sana yang mempunyai ramai sekali teman wanita seperti pengasas majalah Playboy - Hugh Hefner, bekas penyanyi kumpulan KISS - Gene Simmons, Julio Iglesias, Wilt Chamberlain, Tiger Woods, Maharaja Cina, Wilt Chamberlain dan Raja Swaziland yang keseluruhannya pernah meniduri lebih 100,000 wanita, namun tiada tindakan diambil ke atas mereka.

Photos of leopards raise need for more forest corridors in Sabah

News source : The Star online / Sabah Wildlife Department, Danau Girang Field Centre and HUTAN




Photos : Endangered species: An image of the clouded leopard and her cub that was captured at a narrow strip of forest in the Lower Kinabatangan.

KOTA KINABALU 31 Jan 2011:

A sequence of 12 photographs showing a clouded leopard and her cub moving about in the lower Kinabatangan region in Sabah has strengthened calls among conservationists for the setting up of more wildlife forest corridors.

The photographs were captured last November by camera traps that were part of the Kinabatangan Carnivore Programme involving the Sabah Wildlife Department, conservation group Danau Girang Field Centre, French non-governmental organisation Hutan (that conducts conservation projects and research on orang utan) and WildCRU (the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, which is part of the University of Oxford Department of Zoology).

Sabah Wildlife director Laurentius Ambu said pictures of the clouded leopard and its cub were captured in a narrow forest corridor between the Kinabatangan river and an oil palm plantation.

Hutan co-director Dr Marc Ancre­naz said the photographs showed that carnivores were still present in the Kinabatangan floodplain.

“The pictures show that these animals rely on forest corridors for moving around forest patches.

“As already shown for other species such as orang utan, gibbons, proboscis monkeys and elephants, these animals need corridors of forest for surviving in the Kinabatangan area.

“Without these corridors, species population will decline and become extinct.

“It is urgent for everybody to collaborate in order to create more corridors,” Dr Ancrenaz said.

Funding for the programme was started by American zoos in Houston, Columbus, Cincinnatti and Phoenix, as well as private donors from New York.

Cut Tari dan Luna Maya.. mana satu lebih cantik dan menawan??

Luna Maya dan Cut Tari..

Kedua duanya amat menawan, cantik dan jelita.

Kedua duanya bintang terkenal di Indonesia.

Jika diberi pilihan yang mana satu lebih menawan??

Maka saya pilih kedua duanya...

5 gambar di bawah ini adalah Luna Maya
















5 gambar di bawah pula Cut Tari















Wowww... kedua duanya memang amat jelita dan menawan hati sanubari Lelaki..

Mila Kunis, she is so gorgeous and hot

Ever since Mila Kunis, starred in the Black Swan, she immediately attracts the world attention for her inner and outer beauty which is exotic, raw and fresh..



Mila Kunis stars alongside Natalie Portman in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, in which she plays a ballet dancer that personifies dark sexuality. Mila may have had to learn tough choreography, but we're sure the sexy stuff came easy.

Guys... Mila Kunis is definitely hot.

Eva Mendes, the super sexy Hollywood actress

God created women because they are fine and the perfect soul mate to men.

Without women, men can't live.

And without Eva Mendes, the super sexy Hollywoood glamour girl and actress, the world will not be joyful to live.

Viva Eva Mendes... You are soo alluring, charming, sexy and beautiful.

Somali pirates arrive in Malaysia, Monday 31st January 2011

In Somalia, they are kings... indiscriminately firing their automatic rifles and hijacking ships at will, and keeping hostages for months and years.. no sympathy offered, all done in the name of money!!!

Now, face the reality you Pirates ... These are real life Pirates.. not Pirates of the Carribeans, but Somali pirates.

Send them to 100 years jail terms with hard labour or just threw them into the sea, and dont waste a single cents of taxpayers money on these useless jerks and imbeciles!!!


Seven accused Somali pirates, captured by Malaysian forces in a raid to free a hijacked oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden, arrived in Malaysia for possible prosecution. -- PHOTO: AP

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Monday 31st January 2011.

SEVEN accused Somali pirates, captured by Malaysian forces in a raid to free a hijacked oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden, arrived on Monday, 31st January 2011, in Malaysia for possible prosecution.

The seven, dressed in orange detention suits and handcuffed behind their backs, arrived at Port Klang south of Kuala Lumpur and were taken under heavy security to a police station and then a hospital.

Transported in a convoy of a dozen vehicles, they spent an hour undergoing medical checks as some 50 police with automatic weapons stood guard outside the hospital's emergency department.

Authorities had said the pirates would arrive in Malaysia on board the rescued tanker MT Bunga Laurel, which along with its crew of 23 was seized on January 20, 2011 in the Gulf of Aden, the centre of Somalia's piracy crisis.

The chemical tanker was headed to Singapore with a cargo of lubricating oil worth more than US$10 million (S$13 million) when bandits armed with AK-47 assault rifles boarded and took control of the ship.

Malaysian naval commandos from a vessel protecting shipping in the area, along with a navy attack helicopter, responded to a distress call and captured the pirates after a brief firefight. -- AFP

Below are news materials on Somalia Pirates menance off the coast of Aden, as reported by the internatoonal media.

Why capture?? Just blew those pirates up to end this menance, once and for all.

Indonesian singer, Ariel of Peter Pan, jailed 3 1/2 years in sex-tape trial

Indonesian rock star Nazril Ariel (right) waits with his girlfriend Luna Maya, before his trial at Bandung court in West Java, Indonesia on Monday, 31st January, 2011 -- PHOTO: AFP

Be strong Ariel, you only made love to 2 lovely ladies - Cut Tari and Luna Maya which both loved you, yet the outcome was harsh.

In this world, actually thousands of men out there made love to unbelievable numbers of women, some amounting to thousands of girls, yet not a single action was ever taken against them.

Examples include former NBA Basketball player, Wilt Chamberlain who claimed he made love to 20,000 women and playboy founder Hugh Hefner who bedded 10 women simultaneously each night everyday in his life, past Maharaja of China or China Emperor who had more than 1,000 concubines or sex slave girls to appease his unsatiable creed for sex, Tiger Woods who bedded numerous girlfriends and mistresses, KISS frontman Gene Simmons who claimed he bedded 3,200 women and super popular crooner Julio Iglesias who claimed to have fathered 1,500 children with 1,000 different women.

And the lists go on.

Yet... no action was ever taken against them for doing all that and they continue to make love to countless women, days and nights, rain or shine.

Poor Ariel.. be strong man...

BANDUNG (Indonesia), Monday, 31st January 2011 - source AFP/AP

AN INDONESIAN court on Monday, 31st January 2011 jailed one of South-east Asia's biggest rock stars for more than three years after sex tapes of him with two television celebrities appeared online.

The trial for Nazril 'Ariel' Irham, lead singer of the band Peterpan, has made headlines and dominated chatter on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter for more than three months.

Fans insist he did nothing wrong, making the tapes in the privacy of his own home. But Islamic hard-liners warn that his actions have contributed to the country's moral decline.

The 29-year-old pop star - who said the videos were stolen and posted online without his knowledge - is the first celebrity to be charged with violating the country's strict anti-pornography law that came into effect in 2008.

'I wanna be free,' Ariel told reporters, smiling as he puffed away on a cigarette before being escorted into a packed and electrically charged courtroom before the verdict. 'I didn't distribute those videos.'

Outside the district court in Bandung, about 120km south-east of the capital, Jakarta, hundreds of protesters chanted his name and demanded he be punished.

Ariel is the frontman of one of Indonesia's most popular rock group, Peter Pan.



Their smash hits songs include "Ada Apa Denganmu", "Mungkin Nanti", which are hugely popular in South East Asia.



Be strong Ariel.... Hugh Hefner, Julio Iglesias, The king of Swaziland, Silvio Berlusconi and Gene Simmons bedded a combined total of 100,000 women, yet no action was ever taken against those Don Juans and Cassanovas!!!

Gang rape of Malaysian student in London, Malaysian students advised to be careful and vigilant

A view of the college in London

Malaysian students in Britain have been advised to be vigilant and careful to avoid being caught in compromising situations, following the alleged gang-rape of an 18-year-old Malaysian student in London, recently.

Education Malaysia (Britain and Eire) director Associate Proffesor Dr Rosman Abdullah said his department would issue advisories to students there to prevent such things from happening again.

The director was responding to recent reports in The Sun tabloid of London which highlighted the case where a Malaysian student was gang-raped by seven Russian men, including an intelligence officer.

The report alleged that the girl was drugged before she was sexually assaulted and the entire ordeal was filmed.

The Sun tabloid of London, which broke the story on Thursday 27 January 2011, reported that the girl had attended a party at the prestigious Bellerbys College in Greenwich, South London, where she is studying.

The report, quoting sources, claimed that the girl was allegedly drugged and then filmed while being assaulted by seven Russian men, including the intelligence officer identified as Oleg Vladimirvich Ivanov, 23.

The attack is said to have happened early last Sunday, 23rd January 2011, during the party attended by English language students of the college.

The report stated that police retrieved iPhones with harrowing footage of the victim being gang-raped.

Ivanov was charged with three others identified as Gregory Andreev Melnikov, 22, Norayr Davtyan, 25, and Arnen Simonay, 26, with the offence at the Woolwich Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday and Wednesday.

All four claimed trial and have been remanded.

They will appear at Woolwich Crown Court on Tuesday.

Two other suspects were released on bail while another was released without any charge.

The Sun report stated that the seven men had claimed to be students, but it quoted well-informed sources as saying that Ivanov worked in the Intelligence Section of the Moscow Police.

It stated that Ivanov had only been in Britain for a week before the alleged gang-rape.

The victim was said to have raised the alarm after staggering into a friend’s room.

“She is distraught. She is very young and it is believed she was given a drug before being defiled,” the report quoted a source as saying.

Two students at the college, contacted by the Malaysian premier newspaper, The Star last Sunday night, 30th January 2011, were tight-lipped about the incident.

“What we know so far is what everyone has read in the newspaper (The Sun). We refuse to talk about the case as we are not allowed to. Please contact our college officials if you want a comment,’’ said one of them.

The college officials could not be reached for comment.

So Ladies.. out there.. beware..

Malaysian Prime Minister visits Maliau Basin, Sabah - 29th January 2011

Maliau Basin located deepn in the interior of Sabah is one of the world's premier ecological centres.

The Basin derives its name because of its mystery and unique basin shaped at 1,900 metres above sea-level, with its own skies and cloud formations.

Hence, earning the nickname - The Lost World.

Here, one can experience wonders of nature including countless flora and fauna species as well as boasting one of the highest density of waterfalls ever found in one place.

On the morning of Saturday, January 29th, 2011, history was made when Maliau Basin was visited by Malaysia's number one, the Prime Minister himself, Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Tun Abdul Razak.
















During his visit to Maliau Basin, the Premier said Malaysia is very keen to list Sabah's Lost World, the Maliau Basin as a world heritage site.

In endorsing the state government's proposal, Najib said a World Heritage listing by UNESCO would bring immediate world attention and interest in the 58,400-hectare untouched tropical rainforest, just slightly smaller then Singapore.

He said the heritage listing of Mount Kinabalu National Park, George Town, Gunung Mulu National Park and Malacca had seen a jump in worldwide interest in such areas of natural or historical importance.

However, he said there was a lot of work to be done to obtain such a World Heritage status as the government and various had to meet with various guidelines to be able to meet the requirements of Unesco in listing it as a world heritage site.

“I would support the Chief Minister in getting this place listed as a world heritage site," he told reporters after becoming the first Prime Minister to step foot in the Maliau Basin where he opened the Maliau Basin Studies Centre and also launched the study of the Stability of Altered Forest Eco-Systems (SAFE) conducted by Royal Socieity of UK and sponsored by Sime Darby Foundation, that is set to become the world’s largest ecological experiment.

Najib said that Maliau Basin was becoming an integral part of an ecological experiment in an area that contained rare flora and fauna, including six types of pitcher plants and more then 80 species of orchids and endangered wildlife, from rhinocerous to orang utans.

''Only about 25% of Maliau Basin has been explored. From four major expeditions between 1986 to 2005, we learned it has the greatest number of waterfalls any where in Malaysia.

“About 40 of them, in all, including the famous seven-tiered Maliau Falls and Sabah's only ox-bow lake called Lake Linumunsut."

However, he said conservation required funding and hoped the private sector, local and international, could play a significant role in sustaining and extending Malaysia's conservation efforts.

''This will be crucial in making Maliau Basin Studies Centre a premier facility for tropical rainforest, research and scientific discovery in the region," he added.

In Maliau Basin, Datuk Seri Najib also said certain Western critics of Malaysia’s oil palm industry were taking a narrow view of the issue when they ignore the benefits of the industry to those who depend on it for their livelihood.

“The critics fail to understand we have a responsibility to our people who depend on oil palm and this does not include smallholders and companies.

“Compared to others, we are doing better in sustainable development and preservation of the environment,”.

Earlier in his speech, he said the SAFE project was important as it was in line with Malaysia’s commitment to conservation and will help address many issues the world is facing, especially climate change, as a result of deforestation.

“This project will make a major contribution to understanding how biodiversity can be protected and maintained in our plantations.

“It will also assess how to balance the economic benefits of the oil palm industry with the need for environmental conservation and sustainable development,” he added.

Najib said that, to date, there has been no definitive study on the quantifiable impact of deforestation on wildlife, water quality, nutrient cycle and soil stability.

“At best, what we have are educated guesses which are not sufficient to make important decisions that could affect our environment.”

Najib said the project will help address the issue of deforestation and the impact of oil palm plantations properly.

“We need long-term, large scale ecological experiments like SAFE to give us concrete answers that can help guide any modifications in the way oil palm plantations are operated.”

The Maliau Basin Studies Centre and the Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems (SAFE) project is a 10-year study costing RM 30 million is sponsored by Sime Darby and is undertaken by the Royal Society’s South-East Asia Rainforest Research Programme and is set to become the world’s largest ecological experiment.

Perdana Menteri Malaysia lawat Maliau Basin, Sabah, 29 January 2011

Satu catatan sejarah terpahat dalam sejarah pemuliharaan alam sekitar dan alam semulajadi di negara ini apabila pemimpin nombor satu negara, Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Tun Razak, turun padang sendiri melawat Maliau Basin, satu daripada pusat perlindungan ekologi terbesar dan terkenal di dunia.

Maliau Basin seluas 588 kilometer persegi (seperti keluasan Singapura), terletak di pedalaman Sabah antara Keningau dan Tawau dan diwartakan sebagai kawasan perlindungan pada 1981 oleh Yayasan Sabah dan diwartakan pada 1997 oleh Sidang Dewan Undangan Negeri Sabah.

Maliau Basin dianggap misteri dan unik kerana bentuknya seperti basin iaitu melengkung ke bawah seperti mangkuk dan mempunyai awan sendiri di kawasan tinggi 1,900 meter dari paras laut.

Lembangan Maliau atau Maliau Basin berbentuk umpama sebuah mangkuk gergasi yang tergantung pada ketinggian antara 1,500 hingga 1,900m dari paras laut - menjadikannya tidak mungkin boleh didiami manusia dan oleh itu tidak diterokai.

Atas sebab itu, Maliau Basin digelar the Lost World atau Dunia Terasing atau Dunia yang hilang dan Dunia Yang Tersembunyi.






















Maliau Basin juga dikenali sebagai kawasan memiliki paling banyak Air Terjun di Malaysia, atau juga di dunia.

Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak melawat Maliau Basin pada pagi Sabtu 29 Januari 2011 dengan menaiki helikopter dari Tawau sebelum berlepas pulang ke Kuala Lumpur pada sebelah tengahari dan bergegas pula ke Abu Dhabi, Emiriyah Arab Bersatu untuk lawatan kerja ke negara itu.

Di Maliau, Perdana Menteri berkata, Malaysia mempunyai rekod prestasi yang baik dalam bidang pembangunan lestari, berbanding negara lain, walaupun ada pihak tertentu di peringkat global mempunyai perspektif negatif terhadap amalan dalam aktiviti perusahaan minyak sawit negara ini.

Kata beliau, sebagai sebuah negara, sudah sewajarnya wujud keperluan bagi Malaysia untuk menggunakan tanah bagi tujuan pembangunan, tetapi kerajaan menggubal dasar tertentu untuk memastikan wujud keseimbangan daripada segi keperluan menjaga kepentingan rakyat dan memulihara kawasan hutan.

"Kita perlu sediakan ruang untuk membolehkan rakyat Malaysia menikmati kehidupan lebih baik, tapi pada masa yang sama, kawasan yang dimajukan untuk penanaman kelapa sawit perlu dibangunkan secara lestari. Malah, ada kawasan di mana pembangunan dan pembalakan langsung tidak dibenarkan, seperti Lembangan Maliau dan Lembah Danum dan kawasan tadahan air.

"Jika kita bandingkan dengan prestasi negara lain, rekod prestasi kita lebih baik daripada kebanyakan mereka...setelah mereka musnahkan sumber hutan mereka, kini mereka meninjau ke sana sini dan cuba menuding jari kepada kita, sedangkan merekalah sebenarnya yang menjadi punca masalah,” kata beliau kepada pemberita di Maliau Basin dalam sidang media selepas merasmikan Pusat Kajian Lembangan Maliau (MBSC) dan Projek SAFE (Kestabilan Ekosistem Hutan Yang Ubah) di Kawasan Pemuliharaan Lembangan Maliau pada 29 Januari 2011.

Najib berkata demikian apabila diminta mengulas anggapan sesetengah pihak, terutama di Eropah kononnya Malaysia tidak bertindak secukupnya untuk manambah baik amalan dalam industri minyak sawitnya untuk meningkatkan pembangunan secara lestari.

MBSC terletak di Kawasan Pemuliharaan Lembangan Maliau seluas kira-kira 58,840 hektar dan merupakan Hutan Simpan Kelas I (Perlindungan) di bawah pengurusan Yayasan Sabah.

Terletak kira-kira tiga jam setengah perjalanan dari Keningau atau bandar Tawau, Lembangan Maliau juga dikenali sebagai “Dunia Tersembunyi Sabah”, yang mendapat nama itu kerana bentuknya umpama sebuah mangkuk gergasi yang tergantung pada ketinggian antara 1,500 hingga 1,900m dari paras laut - menjadikannya tidak mungkin boleh didiami manusia dan oleh itu tidak diterokai.

MBSC, yang mempunyai keluasan 18 hektar, bertindak sebagai ibu pejabat bagi kawasan pemuliharaan dengan fungsi utamanya menyediakan venue serta kemudahan untuk penyelidik dan mereka yang menyertai program pembelajaran tentang alam semula jadi serta peserta kursus.

Pusat kajian itu lahir daripada kerjasama antara kerajaan Malaysia dan Denmark bagi menjamin Lembangan Maliau sentiasa dipulihara, dengan perbelanjaan mewujudkan prasarana di situ sebahagian besarnya dibiayai Yayasan Sabah, manakala Danish Cooperation for Environment and Development (DANCED) menyediakan bantuan teknikal serta dana untuk menghasilkan reka bentuk seni bina pusat itu, sebuah makmal dan khidmat perundingan untuk mendapatkan bekalan tenaga yang mampu memulihara kelestarian alam sekitar.

IKEA pula menyumbangkan dana untuk membina bilik pembelajaran, asrama, paparan interpretasi pendidikan alam sekitar, pembinaan denai, jambatan kanopi, menara tinjau, jambatan gantung dan kem satelit.

Sementara itu, mengulas lanjut dalam sidang medianya di Maliau Basin, Perdana Meneri berkata Kerajaan akan berusaha supaya Lembangan Maliau di sini mendapat pengiktirafan sebagai Tapak Warisan dunia.

Perdana Menteri berkata, pengiktirafan daripada Pertubuhan Pendidikan, Saintifik dan Kebudayaan Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (UNESCO) akan menarik minat dari seluruh dunia terhadap lembangan itu.

Beliau sebelum itu melancarkan Pusat Pengajian Lembangan Maliau di kawasan konservasi Lembangan Maliau di sini dan memberi respons kepada cadangan Ketua Menteri Sabah, Datuk Seri Musa Aman.

Najib berkata Malaysia, yang merupakan anggota lembaga pengarah Unesco, akan mengemukakan presentasi kepada agensi PBB itu.

"Sudah tentulah sebaik sahaja disenaraikan sebagai Tapak Warisan Dunia, minat dari seluruh dunia akan meningkat dengan mendadak,” katanya.

Najib mengambil beberapa tempat di Georgetown, Pulau Pinang; Melaka dan Gua Mulu di Sarawak sebagai contoh tapak yang banyak mendapat manfaat daripada pengiktirafan Unesco itu.

Beliau berkata pengiktirafan itu bagaimanapun tidak boleh diperoleh sekelip mata.

"Ada proses yang perlu kita lalui, tetapi mudah-mudahan kita akan berjaya menyenaraikannya (Lembangan Malian Basin sebagai Tapak Warisan Dunia),” katanya.

Musa, ketika berucap sebelum itu, berkata kerajaan negeri akan meneruskan usaha untuk memulihara Lembangan Maliau sebuah destinasi kegemaran pencinta alam.

Ketika lawatan seharinya ke Maliau Basin, Datuk Seri Najib turut melancarkan projek Kestabilan Pengubahan Ekosistem Hutan (SAFE) yang beliau sifatkan sebagai kajian terbesar seumpamanya mengenai ekologi.

Perdana Menteri berkata, projek SAFE berobjektif membantu melindungi ekosistem hutan hujan dan memulihara biodiversiti dalam konteks pengeluaran pertanian.

Beliau menyifatkan pelancaran projek itu di Lembangan Maliau di sini sebagai amat bersejarah kerana projek itu “akan menyediakan asas bagi kajian 10 tahun mengenai impak pengubahsuaian hutan.”

Ini membabitkan akibat pembalakan, penanaman semula kawasan hutan dan pemecahan kawasan hutan ke atas fungsi dan peranan hutan hujan tropika, katanya.

Projek itu adalah usahasama antara Yayasan Sime Darby dan Royal Society of SEARRP, Program Penyelidikan Hutan Hujan Asia Tenggara.

Yayasan itu akan menyuntik RM30 juta ke dalam projek itu, dengan penyelidikan berpusat di Pusat Kajian Lembangan Maliau.

Najib berkata, Lembangan Maliau, dikenali sebagai Sabah’s Lost World yang kaya dengan pelbagai spesies flora dan fauna, merupakan kawasan yang sempurna bagi projek itu.

Beliau berkata penyelidikan itu amat penting bagi mendapatkan pengetahuan mengenai sistem yang perlu diwujudkan untuk melindungi hutan hujan tropika di Malaysia.

"Penyelidikan ini akan menyumbang kepada pemahaman mengenai bagaimana biodiversiti boleh dilindungi dan dikekalkan dalam aktiviti perladangan.

"Ia juga akan menilai bagaimana untuk mengseimbangkan manfaat ekonomi daripada industri kelapa sawit dengan keperluan pemuliharaan alam sekitar dan pembangunan lestari,” katanya.

Pasukan penyelidikan diketuai Dr Rob Ewers dari Imperial College of the United Kingdom dan Dr Glen Reynolds dari Royal Society of SEARRP, dan akan termasuk saintis dari Universiti Oxford, Universiti Cambridge, Universiti Stanford, Universiti Zurich dan Universiti Malaysia Sabah.

Hidup Maliau Basin..!!!