Strategic Interest of Malaysia's in Matters Concerning Policy on Antarctica

As members of the Antarctica Treaty 1959, Malaysia is aware of the stringent requirements in the Treaty Protocol on Environmental Protection 1991 (The Madrid protocol 1991). Malaysia is also aware of the weight on the economic factor as huge budgetary allocations needed to fund Malaysia's scientific research expeditions. Nevertheless, the membership resulted in the need to reconciliation local environmental policy to the Madrid Protocol 1991. This paper traces the development of Malaysian environmental policy pre and posts the signing of Antarctica Treaty, emphasizing the concept that affects the Malaysian policy in its attempt to compliment the Antarctica Environmental Protection Policy. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.