Zuraida’s ‘orangutan will kill you first’ comment was a joke, says office

Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin’s office has clarified that her controversial comments about human-harming orangutans had been uttered in “jest”.

The office regretted that criticism against her had “undermined” the ministry and “distorted” the country’s palm oil campaign.

Zuraida recently became the subject of…