School’s out: Children heading home after a day at their school (seen in the background) on the Jenderata oil palm estate in Perak. Photo: The Star/Ong Soon Hin
It's a sunny afternoon on the Jenderata oil palm estate just outside Teluk Intan, Perak. I’m being driven around by United Plantations vice chairman and chief executive director Datuk Carl Bek-Nielsen, my tour guide for the day.
We stop outside a row of terraced houses and Bek-Nielsen urges me to take a look at them. These 140sq m houses are accommodations for employees classified as general estate workers, I’m told; some are cheery with potted flowers, and I notice satellite dishes on some roofs and cars parked in some porches.
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