Home Minister Muhyiddin Yassin pointed out today that there is a difference between Pulau Kukup remaining as a gazetted national park and it being reclassified as sultanate land.

Muhyiddin said the Johor State Park Enactment was created when he was the state menteri besar between 1986 and 1995, during which all state parks were gazetted in order to preserve them.

“There was a decision from higher-ups that said we will make it as a national park, but the difference between what I did then and what is happening now is that land has been transferred as a sultanate land, so there is a slight difference in that status...