Tanjung Piai folk yearning for more development

Point of interest: Fisheries Department deputy director Datuk Dr Bah Piyan Tan (left) planting mangrove trees at the Tanjung Piai National Park.

PONTIAN: It looks like a little dot on the Johor map and for the next two weeks, Tanjung Piai will be under the microscope of every other Malaysian.

The Tanjung Piai parliamentary constituency is made up of fishing villages, small towns, oil palm plantations and a rich mangrove forest.