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Government GIS

GIS brings efficiency to Malaysia's rubber replanting programme

By Clarice Africa | 27 July 2011

In an Interview with Tk. Suriani bt Tk Anuar Zainal, Principal Assistant Director of the IT Department at the Rubber Industry Smallholders Development Authority, she shares with FutureGov how their agency is using GIS to maximise the efficiency in planning and making decisions for the Government’s rubber replanting programme.

Rubber Industry Smallholders Development Authority (RISDA) is a government organisation under the Ministry of Rural and Regional Development. Its core business is to facilitate the government’s rubber replanting programme and to ensure that the economic well-being of the smallholder sector is modernised in all aspects.

To keep abreast with the Clients’ Charter in speeding up the modernisation process for the smallholders’ sector, RISDA has taken a step further to improve the service quality especially in approving the replanting applications to the smallholders.

“Having observed the importance of a good delivery system to the smallholders, RISDA has considered the use of remote sensing technology and GIS applications to improve the effectiveness of the methodology used in approving the rubber replanting applications received,” Suriani said.

An initial survey that was carried out in collaboration with the Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency, proved that remote sensing technology is effective in classifying the young and mature rubber trees with 86% accuracy thus providing a better and faster solution in determining the rubber lots belonging to the smallholders of such categories.

With the favourable results from the initial survey the Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU) approved the development of the project locally known as e-Kabun, which aims to support the rubber replanting programme of RISDA.

e-Kabun, literally translated as e-Plantation in english, is an application developed which makes use of two technologies; GIS applications and Remote Sensing where the satellite image of SPOT 5 in 10 meter resolution is used as the primary data source and is processed to determine the categories of rubber plantation.

The system also contains information and spatial data from rubber plantations belonging to smallholders and cadastral data from the Department of Survey and Mapping (JUPEM), which are stored in the GIS database.

“e-Kebun serves as an indexed database of digital maps that is capable of displaying visuals on the progress of a lot or plantation more evidently which thus instills confidence to the users and help us and other concerned stakeholders in planning and making decisions more efficiently,” Suriani said.

Suriani added that the use of remote sensing technology is expected to increase the efficiency and quality of RISDA’s delivery system in processing and approving the rubber replanting application to the smallholders from 14 days to 1 day.

With the e-Kabun The integration with other data resources within the organization will reduce data redundancies hence data integrity ensured.

The full article on how GIS is being used in Malaysia’s rubber replanting programme will appear in the next issue of the FutureGov Asia Pacific Magazine.

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