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Based on the case on KOPEL Bhd, There are a key issue of KOPEL to sustain its Business Operation. The first issue is KOPEL as a Self Reliant Community based tourism. Even though KOPEL Bhd had been supported by many funders, They try to find a few ways to be self –reliant in the business. They create many activities to throughout the year such as Miso Walai Home Stay, MESCOT, Culture performance, Hand craft and others. KOPEL has not only provided its members with business profit (dividend), but also social benefit, for example through provision of fund for home stay renovation and expansion, funeral donation, skills development, festival celebration, and sport activities. Although the income surpasses RM1 million, their expenditure in management and operation up to 80 percent of total revenue and it keep increasing. KOPEL would have to find activities that require less capital but having a good return. They must identify products and service that are complementary to their tourism community based.

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KOPEL Berhad is stand for Koperasi Pelancongan. KOPEL Berhad is a community ecotourism co-operative. There are some key issues of KOPEL to sustain their business operation. the first issue is about their market operation. Now, KOPEL focus on tourist from outside Malaysia. They want to do more attraction to attract local tourist. Malaysian tourist like a silence and peaceful place to spend their holiday with family. KOPEL get funding from government, NGOs and their own business such as catering, homestay and else. KOPEL give many benefits to their members. As we know,  the biggest obstacles to their business is weather. There is no income if the weather is bad because they cannot do any business activities.

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Based on our group observation from the case of KOPEL Berhad, there are several key issues of KOPEL Berhad sustain its business operation. Maintaining the Kopel's main business is one of the key to sustain the operation. Since the community around the KOPEL Berhad industry involved in this business as well as the the industry level, the income for this both operation become the key to sustain the operation in order to maintain this industry.

The other key of KOPEL Berhad is to sustain the operation is by the funding from the government agencies and the Non-governmet organization. Year by year Kopel Berhad have recieved funds from this both agencies. Since this company is operated based on nature, in other words eco-friendly, KOPEL Berhad had been under government funding for so long. To make sure the funding from government is still ongoing, this company also has to maintain its nature-based operation.

Furthermore, KOPEL Berhad also has strategic management as well as technical skills that created synergy to discover new opportunities for KOPEL survival. These are thanks to Hasim and Rosli for their expertise in their field of job.

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KOPEL Berhad (Koperasi Pelancongan), which is community ecotourism cooperative. The main business of KOPEL is related to tourism, conservation and agricultural. The issues that KOPEL Bhd sustains its business is the financial sustainability of the cooperative in KOPEL Bhd. Their dividend every years seems stagnent. To solve this problem, their need to diversify their product and it will be need extra funds. KOPEL financial resources are mostly funded by several government agencies, NGO’s, and universities but KOPEL Bhd cannot always relay on their support. They should find some ways to sustain in the business. Although the income surpasses RM1 million, their expenditure in management and operation up to 80 percent of total revenue and it keep increasing. The challenge that KOPEL has to face is allocate as resource strategically and make those resource as productive as possible.

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TUAN SHARIFAH NUR SHAHIRAH BT TUAN KECIL (BB13110603)

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TUAN SHARIFAH NUR SHAHIRAH BT TUAN KECIL (BB13110603)

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Based on our group observation from the case of KOPEL Berhad, there are some key issues of KOPEL to sustain their business operation. First, they diversify their products to attract bigger market especially to cater their local tourists. beside business profit, KOPEL also provided its members with social benefit such as, provision of fund for home stay renovation and expansion, funeral donation, skills development, festival celebration and sport activities. other than that, KOPEL's financial resources for development and diversification are mostly funded by several NGOs, namely Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), WWF Malaysia and Norway, Arcus Foundation and also through government conservation projects in Sabah. to give the benefit to the community involved in KOPEL, they also plans to cooperate with universities and government agencies through knowledge and skill enhancement program. they also realize that they cannot always rely on the funders supports and they have to find some ways to be self-reliant to sustain in the business.

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DANIMAR BIN SALIH (BB13110082) GROUP LEADER

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DANIMAR BIN SALIH (BB13110082) GROUP LEADER

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Based on our group observation, there are several key issues of KOPEL Berhad to sustain their business operation. In order to sustain, KOPEL was set up to reverse the losses, to capitalise on ancient indigenous and traditional knowledge and culture, to save and create economic value and appreciation of the mega-diverse rich rainforests
of the area, and in the process create a sense of hope for a sustainable future
for the people of Lower Kinabatangan. Mostly KOPEL get their funding from the cooperation with the stakeholders like government agencies, NGOs and universities. KOPEL also get fund from their community-based tourism business. KOPEL has discovered new opportunities for the sustainability but they required extra fund to
execute the plan. One of their plans is the development of the Eco Resort that
requires full commitment from all stakeholders to ensure KOPEL success without
ignoring financial sustainability. However KOPEL Berhad can sustain their
business operation with the funding from the stakeholders, new opportunity and
commitment from the member of KOPEL.

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NOORFARAH AINI BINTI NGAJAMIL (BB13110347) 

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NOORFARAH AINI BINTI NGAJAMIL (BB13110347) 

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KOPEL Berhad (Koperasi Pelancongan) is one of the Community Ecotourism Cooperative.  As we all know, the main product of KOPEL is related to tourism, conservation and agricultural and the key resources are wildlife and nature. KOPEL get their revolving fund from government, NGO’s and their activities that they offer to tourists for example catering, homestay and boat service. To sustain the business operation, KOPEL give some benefit for their members like social benefit which include funeral donation.  Besides, KOPEL strategy is to identify any products that are related to their product service. KOPEL also want to diversify their product to attract bigger market but they need to find extra fund. KOPEL also have the future’s plan which include development of Eco Resort, continue growth at a steady and others.  Last issue to sustain their business is about weather. They didn’t get any pay if the weather is bad. It is because they cannot do any activities.

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KOPEL Berhad was registered in July 2013 is located in the village of Batu Puteh.

KOPEL was set up to reverse the losses, to capitalise on ancient indigenous and traditional knowledge and culture, to save and create economic value and appreciation of the mega-diverse rich rainforests of the area, and in the process create a sense of hope for a sustainable future for the people of Lower Kinabatangan. The establishment of KOPEL started from initial cooperation with conservation project under coordination of MESCOT (Model for Ecologically Sustainable Community Tourism) in 1988 which involved various community-based programmes funded by three non-government organisations (NGOs), the WWF of Malaysia and Norway and Discovery Channel Television. To sustain in its activities, KOPEL’s financial resources for the development and diversification are mostly funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), WWF Malaysia and Norway, Arcus Foundation as well as through government conservation projects like Sabah Forestry Department and Ministry. KOPEL also plan to cooperate with universities and government agencies through knowledge and skill enhancement program which may benefit the community involved in KOPEL. KOPEL’s plans for the future include development of the Eco Resort, ongoing work to strengthen community capacity and continue grow at a steady, sustainable pace.

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SITI ZAFIRAH BINTI ABDUL RAHIM BB13110554 (Group Leader

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SITI ZAFIRAH BINTI ABDUL RAHIM BB13110554 (Group Leader

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Based on our group observation, the financial sustainability is the main key issues facing by Kopel Berhad (Koperasi Pelancongan). As Kopel’s main business is related to community-based tourism, they run their businesses and generate revenues  based on tourism attraction like homestay, boat riding for nature sight-seeing and conservation activities and it becomes one of their source of incomes. Kopel also revolving fund generated through funding from government agencies and NGOs and income from various Kople’s activities. As a return, KOPEL has not only provided its members with business profit (dividend), but also social benefit, for example through provision of fund for homestay renovation and expansion, funeral donation (khairat kematian), skills development, festival celebration, and sport activities. Althoug their income surpasses RM1 million, they are experiencing a considerable expenditure in management and operation up to 80 percent of the total revenues, and it keep increasing. So that they need to find extra funds for additional capacity building, and more experts are needed to be hired to coordinate it. For KOPEL Berhad, the management challenge is to allocate resources strategically and make those resources as productive as possible using new financial and marketing model.

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Based from my observation, KOPEL Berhad (stand for KOPERASI PELANCONGAN) is the Community Ecotourism Cooperative of Batu Puteh community and the main business of company is related to community-based tourism like homestay, boat riding for nature sight-seeing, and conservation activities. The problem facing by KOPEL Berhad now is about their financial sustainability of the co-operative. Although KOPEL Berhad are successfully generate income surpasses RM1 million, but they are using up to 80 percent about the total revenues to spend on expenditure in management and operation and the expenditure is keep increasing from time to time. The challenge of this issue is KOPEL have to overcome that financial problems and making more profit to all the shareholders from allocate their resource strategically and make those resource as productive as possible by implement new financial strategy and marketing model. KOPEL has not only provided its members with business profit (dividend), but also social benefit, for example through provision of fund for homestay renovation and expansion, funeral donation (khairat kematian), skills development, festival celebration, and sport activities. To sustain those activities, KOPEL’s financial resources for development and diversification are mostly funded by several NGOs, namely Japan nternational Cooperation Agency (JICA), WWF Malaysia and Norway, Arcus Foundation as well as through government conservation projects.

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AMANDA ADRIENNE LIM (BB
13110018) (Group Leader)

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AMANDA ADRIENNE LIM (BB
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From the case on KOPEL Bhd. (also known as KOPERASI PELANCONGAN BHD.), what issues that KOPEL Bhd. sustains its business operation are KOPEL Bhd. is financial sustainability of the co-operative. KOPEL’s main business is related to community-based tourism like homestay, boat riding for nature sight-seeing, and conservation activities.

The challenge of this issue is KOPEL need to allocate resources strategically and make those resources as productive as possible using new financial and marketing model. KOPEL generated through funding from government agencies and NGOs.

KOPEL has to generate more revenues for the benefit of their members and stakeholders.

KOPEL has not only provided its members with business profit which is dividend, but also social benefit, such as through provision of fund for homestay renovation and expansion, funeral donation, skills development, festival celebration, and sport activities. To sustain in its activities, KOPEL’s financial resources for development and diversification are mostly funded by several NGOs, JICA, WWF Malaysia & Norway, and Arcus Foundation. (160 words)

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Noratikah binti Bilhudah (BB13161028) Leader

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Noratikah binti Bilhudah (BB13161028) Leader

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KOPEL is a community Ecotourism Cooperative of Batu Puteh. KOPEL in a fragile business where is wildlife and nature is their key resources are affected with unpredictable weather and deforestation is beyond their control. Besides it, KOPEL also facing financial problems which management and operating expenses is more than KOPEL income. This is because the more activities KOPEL carry out, the more funds will be needed. To ensure KOPEL continues to operate in the future, KOPEL identify products that are complementary to the products and services available to attract customers.

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Nur Aqilah binti Kepli ( BB13161111) Leader

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Nur Aqilah binti Kepli ( BB13161111) Leader

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KOPEL BERHAD stand for Koperasi Pelancongan is the Community Eco tourism Cooperative and their main product are related to tourism, conservation and agricultural. KOPEL Berhad has a problem about their Financial Sustainability. Even though the profit achieved RM1 million from all the activities in KOPEL but the profit is used to recover the expenditure of management and operation that keep increasing. KOPEL members don't understand the problem their faced because they just want to gain profit without cared KOPEL financial statement. KOPEL want to purpose other product, for example 'kampung stay' to diversity their product and then attract bigger market but they have problem in extra fund to building and hired more people that expert in coordinate. For the future plan is to allocate recourse strategically and make those resources as productive as possible by using new financial tools and marketing model. Besides that, they also plan to cooperate with local university and government to get extra fund.

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muhamad faraby iqbal bin lokman (bb13110307) team leader

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muhamad faraby iqbal bin lokman (bb13110307) team leader

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based from my observation, KOPEL is a sustainable organization that rely on natural resource in the rural area which means that KOPEL has identify all the places that have natural resource that has potential to developed a new kind of business. the challenge that KOPEL has to face is to allocate resource strategically and make those resource as productive as possible by develope many kind of business including ecological tourism to attrace more customer.