TY - JOUR AU - Najimudin, Muhammad Fadhlullah AU - Md Dahlan, Nuarrual Hilal AU - Md. Nor, Mohd Zakhiri PY - 2020/07/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Establishment of Bukit Kayu Hitam as a Special Border Economic Zone (SBEZ): Global lessons JF - Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal JA - E-BPJ VL - 5 IS - 14 SE - Policy Matters DO - 10.21834/ebpj.v5i14.2270 UR - https://ebpj.e-iph.co.uk/index.php/EBProceedings/article/view/2270 SP - 221-226 AB - <p><a style="cursor: pointer;" href="https://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=10.21834/ebpj.v5i14.2270&amp;domain=ebpj.e-iph.co.uk&amp;uri_scheme=http;cm_version=v2.0" data-target="crossmark"><img src="https://ebpj.e-iph.co.uk/xmark.jpg" alt="" /></a></p><p>Special Economic Zones (SEZs) is one of the known mechanisms to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Nevertheless, there was a global mix reaction towards its successful implementation with a few operational failures, especially in the area of its legal framework. Therefore, this paper aim is to explore the success and failure experience to be a reference for the development of Special Border Economic Zone at Bukit Kayu Hitam using qualitative textual analysis. It finds that two significant issues in SEZs; regulatory/ legal framework, and development spill-over.</p><p>Keywords: Special Economic Zones; Land Use Planning Law; Policy Implementation; Bukit Kayu Hitam.</p><p><em>eISSN: 2398-4287</em><em>© 2020. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer-review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning &amp; Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.</em></p><p>DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v5i14.2270</p> ER -