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The Malaysian water supply and sanitation sector is described. The project would expand water supply infrastructure systems in three districts of the State of Johor. Water services would be improved for 1.000,000 persons (plus 370,000 by 1990), meaning 86% of the population in the three districts. The project would provide for: (a) the expansion of source works serving the Johor Bahru district and the strengthening of distribution systems, (b) the construction of intake, pumping, transmission and distribution works in the Batu Pahat district, (c) the construction of intake, wells, treatment, transmission and storage works in the Kluang district, (d) establishment of in-house training capabilites, etc. (Econom. Voorlichtingsdienst)

The Malaysian agricultural sector is overviewed. The proposed project would control floods and improve drainage over 98,000 ha in Western Johor and would replant 14,500 ha of senile rubber on smallholdings during the construction period. The works would increase yields of younger existing plant stands and would enable the development of a further 70,000 ha after completion of the works as part of the ongoing programs under several agencies. Civil works. Agricultural development. Project costs and financing. ICB-procurement: civil works. Statistics, 1985-2016. (Econom. Voorlichtingsdienst)

Much of the history of the people of the Straits of Malacca in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is still unknown and perhaps unknowable, given the lack of source material. However, some aspects of political history are becoming clearer. It has become apparent that this period witnessed a fundamental change in the political structure of the area; able in the past to support empires and cultures of no small renown, the Malay world by the nineteenth century had disintegrated into a mass of petty states, leaderless and disorientated, a power vacuum that the British Empire was eventually forced to fill. Symptoms of this change first became discernable in the early eighteenth century, during the reign of the last Malay Raja Muda of the Johor Empire (1708–18). Johor was then still a powerful force in the Malay world, ruling a widespread area from Siak in Sumatra, through the coastal areas of the Malay peninsula (roughly, in modern terms, from Selangor south, then north again as far as Trengganu), plus the islands of the Riau–Lingga archipelago and Siantan. The sea was still a connecting, rather than a dividing force in Malay politics. In 1708 the administration of this empire fell to Tun Mahmud, who was to be the last Malay to hold the office of Raja Muda in Johor. He was by all accounts a remarkable ruler, under whose guidance Johor attained, for a while, great power and prestige.

An independent candidate, Datuk Shahrir Abdul Samad, won the Johore Baru parliamentary by-election in August 1988. The article considers what the results signal for the Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad's administration. It is argued that the Johore Baru election may well prove to be a watershed in Malaysian politics. (DÜI-Sen)

In order to reduce the economic and social disparity among the various regions of the country, the Malaysian government, since the early 1970s, has implemented its "growth-centre creation" policies. These have led to the evolvement of Penang as the growth centre for North Peninsular Malaysia, Kuantan for the East and Johore Baru for South Peninsular Malaysia. The role that Johore Port plays in the growth of South Peninsular Malaysia is examined

This article examines various aspects of the formulation of the Dutch East India Company's treaty and alliance system, based on published and unpublished papers written by, or in the possession of, Hugo Grotius (1583–1645). In particular the study draws on his commentary on the Sultan of Johor in De Jure Praedae, and his submissions to the Indies Conferences of 1613 and 1615.