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Malacca Island

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Malacca Island

Malacca Island (Malay: Pulau Melaka) is a man-made islet approximately 0.5 km off the coast of Malacca City – the capital city of the Malaysian state of Malacca, just south of its business district of Taman Melaka Raya. It is formed from the reclamation of land around an islet of the same name, also

formerly named Jawa Island (Malay: Pulau Jawa, not to be confused with Indonesia's Java Island) originally a tidal island in the mid-1990s, when the Malacca State Government under then Chief Minister, Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik was planning to turn it into a "Malacca Manhattan" for business and recreational purposes. The island became part of the RM 2 billion "Twin Island City Centre" waterfront project undertaken by Pulau Kembar Sdn Bhd (formerly Inno Enhance Sdn Bhd), a defunct joint-venture of Larut Consolidated Berhad and Talam Corporation Berhad, which involved the reclamation of two islands measuring 40ha and 50ha respectively and launched in May 1996 by then-Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. This project was planned to comprise mixed residential and commercial development together with leisure-cum-tourism amenities such as marine theme park, marina, hotels and waterfront activities. It...

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