Rambutans

Punctually at 9am, they rode in on motorbikes, a few riding pillion. Looking around the wooden table, faces of school-going children, adolescents and barely adults are the managers and habitat guides of Kelab Alami. Sitting outside the kelab house, with pens hovering over open notebooks, and a warm breeze encouraging discourse, we begin the workshop on news reporting. What makes …

Kelab Alami

I was invited to stay at Kelab Alami, a single-storey house set in the middle of a cluster of homes in Kampung Ladang, Johor Darul Takzim. The environmental youth club founded by local Shalan Ju’mat and his wife Serina Rahman is strategically located close to the Gelang Patah R&R, the Second Tuas Link into Singapore, and Pak Ngah jetty, the …