Speaking during the debate on the state’s 2017 budget, Gan said no deadline had been set although the Menteri Besar, Mohamed Khaled Nordin, had said in April that the state planned to gazette the 550km shoreline.

Khaled had said at the time that commercial vessels that anchored the boundary with Singapore had been polluting the waters by discharging oil and other waste before entering the Singapore port.

Gan urged the state government to ensure that the Environment Department was equipped with an oil spill trajectory device to help monitor activity in sensitive areas which can affect the environment and those who depend on the sea.

Gan, who is Penggaram assemblywoman, also urged the Johor government to adopt a freedom of information enactment as in the opposition-run state governments in Penang and Selangor.

She said freedom of information enactments would enable the people to check official government documents to find out how the state governments carried out their duties.

“This is important to ensure all the government’s dealings are transparent and that they are seen to be transparent,” she said, adding this would increase investor confidence.