The move, its Youth, Legal and Public Complaints bureau chief Jason Loo Jieh Sheng said, was an incentive for the state government to gazette the tropical island as a national forest reserve.

Loo said the wing would give the 12 return tickets to Lim and company, provided they gazette the island this year.

“Gazetting Pulau Jerejak as a national reserve forest has been delayed for eight years.

“Perhaps the state government needs an incentive. So we would like to offer 12 return ferry tickets if it can gazette Pulau Jerejak by this year,” said Loo in a statement.

He added the tickets were also to recognise the DAP-led state government for its honourable efforts in promoting a “Greener, Cleaner Penang”.

He said Penangites were baffled with the state government’s prolonged delay to gazette the 295-hectare Pulau Jerejak that was a sharp contrast to their fast action on land reclamation projects on Penang Island.