Batu Batu
When Dato Chua Jui Leng first set eyes on the island of Pulau Tengah in the early 1990s, it was love at first sight. The native Johorean took an interest in the island – then home to Pirate Bay, a rustic backpacker resort – and for the next 15 years, enjoyed the location’s pristine tropical beauty with family and friends. When she was in her teens, Cher, Dato Chua’s youngest daughter would walk around Pulau Tengah with her father and plan what a resort would look like if one day it was built. She went on to study social anthropology at Cambridge University and from that a bigger sense of building communities in the context of human interaction and action was instilled. It wasn’t until 2009 during Cher and her husband Laurent’s wedding that the decision was made to really go ahead with the resort. The following year, Cher & Laurent left London's financial district behind to move back to her native Malaysia where they threw themselves into the mission and vision of bringing what would eventually become Batu Batu to life. Mindful of the fragile ecology on and around the island, Cher and her family took it upon themselves to become its custodians and have since embarked on a journey to safeguard its natural beauty and rich biodiversity. Besides exploring and implementing technologies which would make the island run more sustainably, Cher and team have created Tengah Island Conservation housed at the Tunku Abdul Jalil Conservation Centre. The team of onsite marine biologists and environmental scientists conduct scientific and community-based conservation programmes to protect the rich biodiversity in the area - a project currently fully funded by the resort.
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