Meningkatkan Kualiti Hidup Sosial:Satu Kajian Kes di Kawasan Gugusan FELDA Trolak,Perak Darul Ridzuan, Malaysia

Improving the Quality of Social Life: A Case Study in FELDA Trolak Group, Perak Darul Ridzuan, Malaysia

Abstract

FELDA has succeeded in raising the socio-economic level and quality of life of rural population. It has now succeeded in providing land for the landless rural population and has provided planned and controlled job oopportunities in the agricultural sector. How long can FELDA remain in the long run has to be studied from various perspectives. Labour needs in the plantations and the sustainability of economic activities of the settlers ought to be planned for short and long terms. Even though FELDA has been successful, there are still settlers who fall behind the efforts to increase the standard of living. A concerted effort to increase human resource quality among the settlers so as to catapult the present economic potentials has to be done, such as involving them in the small industries, petty economic activities and homestaybased tourism. It is conceivable various side economic activites can be implemented by means of cooperation of all parties involved in order to fulfill the development agenda for the next 50 years. It is timely to identifiy and promote the FELDA identity as an asset of the nation which can create its own brand name.