NCR very much alive in Sabah – Maijol
KOTA KINABALU 30/09/2012: Deputy chairman and legal adviser to Angkatan Perubahan Sabah (APS) Senator Datuk Maijol Mahap has maintained that the law regulating Native Customary Right (NCR) is very much alive in the state.
The former UPKO vice president and chairman of the party’s legal bureau said that the law on NCR in Sabah still subsists until today.
He pointed out that NCR was never repealed by the Land Ordinance 1930 and that the provisions of Sections 13-16 of the existing Sabah Land Ordinance clearly affirm that NCR laws are still very much alive in Sabah.
“Nobody should ever try to deny, nullify or amend those native rights. Therefore claim for NCR must be strictly treated as such in accordance with those provisions and not to be considered as a normal application for land as stated by the director of Land Survey.
“After all, as I know the Department has been receiving NCR claims before and has approved them under those provisions. There is no reason why they can’t continue doing it,” Maijol said in response to Land and Survey director Datuk Osman Jamal’s statement about NCR application recently.
Osman said that claims of customary land beyond the Land Ordinance 1930 would not be included under NCR but would instead be treated as new land applications.
According to Maijol, those provisions were put in by the legislators when Sabah was governed by the British because actually native customary law including NCR predate any law, and if the government wants to outlaw it now, there must be a clear and consensus action by the native legislators to do it.
“The Rambilin case is very clear on this. But I don’t think any native legislator will want to do it. The director can’t amend the law unilaterally as he pleases and I hope what he said doesn’t reflect the stance of the government because if it does then it will be a sad day for the natives in Sabah.
“The natives do not want their rights, both substantial and procedural, to be eroded or compromised,” he stressed.
The land and survey department must treat the NCR in accordance with those provisions and not to be considered as a normal application for land.
BalasPadamMake sure the Orang Asli rights will not be eroded or compromised.
BalasPadamItu sudah pasti diberikan tumpuan mengenai hak penduduk orang asli. Kita harap kerajaan akan memastikan yang terbaik keapda semua.
PadamKalau kita lihat pun kerajaan sebenarnya cuba untuk membantu penduduk dengan geran komunal ini. Ini bagi memastikan penduduk dapat mengusahakan tanah tersebut sebaiknya.
Padampengunaan geran komunal baik dan dpt melindungi tanah2 penduduk.
PadamWhat Ramblin said doesn’t reflect the stance of the government, it's solely his own opinion.
BalasPadamMasalah ini harus diselesaikan dengan cara yang adil. kembalikan hak mereka yang layak menuntut tanah tersebut
BalasPadamUndang2 yang sedia ada perlu dipatuhi.
BalasPadamMasalah mengenai tanah NCR penduduk asal diharap dapat diselesaikan dengan baik dan pemimpin perlulah ambil peranan.
BalasPadamisu NCR timbul sejak dulu lagi, ia haruslah diselesaikan segera.
PadamThe Native Customary Rights (NCR) in Sabah has existed since time immemorial through the practice of customs or Adat by the natives.
BalasPadamApart from that, the NCR is recognised in Article 9 of the Royal Charter 1881 granted by the British Government to British North Borneo.
In the administration of justice by the Company to the people of Borneo, or to any of the inhabitants thereof, careful regard shall always be had to the customs and laws of the class or tribe or nation to which the parties respectively belong, especially with respect to the holding, possession, transfer and disposition of lands and goods, and testate or intestate succession thereto, and marriage, divorce and legitimacy, and other rights of property and personal rights.
In my opinion, there are no legislation can abolish such rights as such rights are also provided under the Sabah Land Ordinance and Forest Enactment.
Menurut Ordinan Tanah Sabah Bab 68, sesuatu kawasan akan diiktiraf sebagai kawasan Tanah Adat jika mana-mana daripada terma berikut dipatuhi:
BalasPadam- Perolehan tanah menurut Pegangan Adat/Kaum (di mana termanya diterangkan di "Seksyen 65");
- Tanah yang ditanami dengan buah-buahan, di mana jumlah pokok adalah antara 50 atau lebih pada setiap hektar;
- Pengasingan pokok buah-buahan, sagu, rotan atau lain-lain tanaman yang mempunyai nilai komersial yang mana dapat dibuktikan oleh penuntut kepada pemunggut tanpa keraguan;
- Tanah perladangan/ternakan;
- Tanah yang telah dimajukan atau diusahakan dalam masa tiga tahun berturut-turut;
- Tanah perkuburan atau tempat keramat;
- Jalan masuk biasa bagi orang atau binatang.
Kerajaan BN Sabah pada dasarnya menyokong tuntutan penduduk terhadap Tanah Adat ini dan tidak mahu kebajikan dan hak penduduk dipinggirkan. Lantaran itu, kawasan yang dituntut berkenaan jika terbukti mematuhi salah satu daripada terma-terma diatas melalui penyiasatan yang sistematik dan telus, perlu dan akan dikembalikan kepada penuntut mengikut keluasan yang sesuai. Kawasan berkenaan tidak boleh diberi kepada penduduk atau syarikat luar tanpa persetujuan majoriti penduduk asal kawasan berkenaan.
BalasPadamJika ada pihak yang berpendapat bahawa kerajaan BN Sabah tidak melakukan apa-apa bagi menyelesaikan masalah ini, bagaimana boleh wujudnya cadangan mengeluarkan kawasan Tanah Adat menjadi Tanah Kerajaan yang boleh dipohon penduduk sama ada dalam bentuk geran persendirian atau geran komunal?
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