Abstract
This paper showed the motivations when the Sabah State Government has launched to develop environmental education policy. Early satege of the policy process was analyzed in Sabah State in Malaysia. Case study has conducted in order to discover the motivations of policy formulation. Participation observation has been conducted for a week in September 2005 and for more than four month since January to May 2006. Among six possible motivations such as "expense reduction", "load reduction", "learning", "international society", "internal public opinion" and "local opinion", pattern matching exercises was carried out. As a result, "international society" and "load opinion" were picked up as Sabah's motivation for this policy formulation. It was also cleared that Sabah's environmental education policy formulation has started by the combination of internal as well as external motivation.
