Rabu, September 26, 2012

SPECIAL UNIT ON NCR LAND SOON

Special unit on NCR land soon

KOTA KINABALU September 26, 2012: A special unit, the first of its kind in the country, will be set up soon as part of the Sabah Land and Survey Department’s outreach programme for rural and interior folk in the state.

Dubbed the ‘Unit Pantas NCR’, or Native Customary Rights Fast Unit, it is expected to be officially launched in November.

“We realise the problems faced by the rural and interior folk who have to come to our office to settle land matters, which sometimes take days. It means costs for them to travel all the way from the village to the city. So instead of them coming to us, we will go out and meet them. This will save them a lot of time and money,”

said the department’s director Datuk Osman Jamal, yesterday.

Speaking to reporters after delivering his talk on Customary Land Rights and Community Title at the Sabah Information Department’s briefing, and dialogue with the media, here, he added that the unit was part of the RM25 million allocation from the federal government to survey issues concerning communal land with a view to issue communal land titles.

To date, Osman said they had purchased 23 four-wheel drive vehicles, which will be equipped with computers and Internet facilities, to enable them to carry out the programme.

“The unit will act as the department’s mobile office and will initially be meeting rural folk in Kota Marudu, Tongod, Beluran, Keningau and Nabawan because these areas have been identified to have among the highest number of low income natives.

“Village folk will be advised on issues related to law and land matters and collect information on whether they have settled on government lands and do not know what to do next, among others.

“In Sabah, not many people know the procedures of land application, so through this unit, we hope to talk and explain to them what is the best action to take,” he said.

Osman said this would prevent a third party from giving false information or influence villagers to sell their lands.

Attributing the idea to set up the unit from the Partners of Community Organisations in Sabah (Pacos) memorandum, he added that they had also studied its effectiveness from the successes achieved from neighbouring country Indonesia’s Larasita Programme.

“We were looking for a country that faces similar problems as ours and found Indonesia. We got to know about their Larasita Programme and went over to see how effective it is. They are getting allocation from the World Bank and is such a success. Through it, they were able to provide immediate answers to the villagers,” said Osman.

He said they hoped to come up with a strategy on how best to tackle the problems affecting locals, particularly natives in the state, and would be talking to village heads to learn the people’s grouses.

“Some may say that they have lived in the area for over two decades and have yet to be given land titles; we will give it consideration. Of course the criteria would be long existing villages who have long settled in the area. The unit’s objectives are to find issues affecting the people which did not reach to our attention. Our mission is to identify and find the best solution to it,” Osman assured the people.

On another development, Osman said Pacos Trust was not against the state government’s decision to issue communal titles, but rather hoped for a value-added measure.

“We have had a dialogue with them (Pacos) twice. And when we looked at the proposal to the National Integrity Council, the proposal made to the department was to look into the communal title issue. So we were just following based on our experiences and issues raised by the public and came up with the set of communal title, and the idea came from them.”

by Sandra Sokial

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30 ulasan:

  1. Good initiatives. This is because some land owner left their land idle & not being developed.

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    1. Yes, and I truly admire the spirit of the state government.

      Padam
    2. Hargai usaha kerajaan untuk rakyat.

      Padam
  2. According to Land Development Minister Tan Sri Dr James Masing, "the Dayaks of Sarawak and the Kadazandusuns of Sabah are among the biggest stakeholders of land in Malaysia. However, this wealth does not mean anything if it is not utilised, developed and made to become productive."

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    1. The State government will continue to issue to the people communal land titles which they can pass on to their children.

      And, it will be carried out in stages throughout the State.

      Padam
  3. Tan Sri Dr James Masing also said that:

    "land owners were reluctant to allow others to develop their land in manners which they were not familiar with, often thinking that developers and the Government were out to take their land away from them."

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  4. The natives will not be able to free themselves from the poverty if they refuse to develop their land, as being stated by James Masing:

    "“Therefore, until and unless we as leaders in our respective fields really believe in the need for native land to be productive, until and unless our modus operandi of developing our native land is free of insidious motives and agendas, the natives in Sarawak and Sabah will find it difficult to get out from the shackles of poverty,”

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  5. The natives will not be able to free themselves from the poverty if they refuse to develop their land, as being stated by James Masing:

    "“Therefore, until and unless we as leaders in our respective fields really believe in the need for native land to be productive, until and unless our modus operandi of developing our native land is free of insidious motives and agendas, the natives in Sarawak and Sabah will find it difficult to get out from the shackles of poverty,”

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  6. On the big problem faced by relevant ministry:

    "He said these land owners were reluctant to allow others to develop their land in manners which they were not familiar with, often thinking that developers and the Government were out to take their land away from them."

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  7. Bagus rancangan macam ni,pergi jumpa tanah tuan dan terus membuat urusan,jimatkan masa.

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    1. Tidak perlu buang banyak masa, harap cara ini akan berkesan dalam membantu rakyat Sabah.

      Padam
  8. Harap2 rakyat bersatu padu membangunkan tanah Sabah,memberi kerjasama yang sepatutnya.

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  9. Masalah hak milik tanah sering membawa banyak persoalan, perlaksaan unit dijangka akan dapat banyak positif feedback.

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  10. Selesaikan sebaiknya mengenai masalah tanah yang berlaku di Negeri Sabah ini.

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    1. mgoa isu tanah di Sabah akan dpt diselesaikan.

      Padam
  11. Unit khas ini ditubuhkan bagi memastikan penduduk tahu akan tanah NCR ini dan akan beroperasi dikawasan pendalaman.

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    1. Dengan adanya unit ini maka senang sikitlah para penduduk di kawasan pedalaman berurusan.

      Padam
    2. Jadi selepas ini tiada lagi salah faham yang terjadi, dan kawasan pendalaman lebih senang berurusan.

      Padam
  12. " The state government also was determined to convert forest reserve land which had long been occupied by villagers to state land so that they and their families could continue living there. "

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  13. The processing time for land transactions in Sabah will be progressively reduced with the implementation of the e-Pendaftaran system at the Land and Survey Department by next year, said its Director Datuk Osman Jamal.

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  14. About 30,000 land applications from 23 districts in the State were being received by the department every year, he said, adding however that with the present strength of the department, it could only process between 12,000 and 16,000 annually, resulting in backlogs of 14,000 to 18,000 applications.

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  15. Usaha yang baik, harap cakap tu serupa macam yang dibikin.

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  16. Semoga apa yang dikatakan ini benar dan bukan sekadar menyenangkan hati rakyat saja.

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    1. Harap kerajaan akan menunaikan janji mereka dan tidak hanya bagi janji kosong sahaja.

      Padam
  17. Lepas ini para penduduk tidak payah lagi susah-suah travel jauh2 hanya utk urus tanah saja.

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  18. Harap semuanya berkalan lancar demi kebaikan bersama. Pastikan rakyat dapat menikmati perkhidamatan yang terbaik ini.

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  19. moga dgn ini hak2 NCR penduduk akan dilindungi.

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  20. Di harapkan agar isu tanah akan segera selesai, dan adil untuk semua pihak.

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  21. unit khas yang ditubuhkan ini perlu lebih memihak kepada rakyat, bukannya kerajaan..

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  22. jika masalah tanah di negeri ini masih tidak selesai, mungkin kerajaan negeri perlu juga memhon RCI untuk menyiasat kenapa masalah ini begitu sukar untuk diselesaikan..

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