NCR DIUTAMAKAN: MUSA

Ketua Menteri Datuk Seri Musa Haji Aman menegaskan Hak Tanah Adat Anak Negeri (NCR) adalah keutamaan dan prioriti kerajaan negeri.

Sehubungan itu, katanya, kerajaan sentiasa terbuka menerima teguran dan cadangan yang membina untuk meningkatkan keberkesanan sistem penyampaian perkhidmatan bagi mening- katkan tahap pemeliharaan dan perlindungan NCR dan hak pemilikan tanah oleh anak negeri Sabah.

“Isu NCR tidak seharusnya diputar-belit kerana ia menyentuh kepentingan orang asal, sebaliknya setiap pihak harus memberikan sokongan bagi memastikan isu-isu berkaitan NCR dapat diselesaikan dengan baik demi menjaga kepentingan dan hak asasi orang asal negeri Sabah,” katanya.

Beliau berkata demikian ketika menjawab soalan Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (Adun) Kawasan Kunak Datuk Nilwan Kabang, pada sesi soal jawab, persidangan dewan undangan negeri di Dewan Undangan Negeri, di sini, kelmarin.

Musa berkata, bagi memastikan lebih ramai orang asal mempunyai tanah, kerajaan negeri telah mengambil inisiatif untuk menukarkan rizab hutan kepada tanah kerajaan.

“Saya secara peribadi akan memastikan prinsip menjaga, memelihara dan melindungi kepentingan hak-hak orang asal, akan sentiasa didahulukan.

“Oleh itu saya berharap, tidak ada lagi pihak yang akan memanipulasikan perkara berkaitan NCR, sebaliknya bekerjasama membantu menyelesaikan apa-apa sahaja perkara berkaitan NCR demi kepentingan dan hak-hak orang asal negeri Sabah.

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No discrimination in giving out titles

Issues relating to the rights of the natives in Sabah have always been given attention, said Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman.

He also gave an assurance that the government would not undermine the rights of natives to own land in the state.

He was allaying fears of the government sidelining claims for Native Customary Rights land and that it was being discriminative in the issuing of titles to indigenous people.

"The state is administered by natives, too, and to protect as well as to preserve the rights of the indigenous communities will always be our priority.

"Instead of manipulating the NCR issue, everyone should cooperate and help ensure the rights of the indigenous people are protected," he said.

Musa was replying to a question by Datuk Nilwan Kabang (BN-Kunak), who asked if the government still recognised the NCR claims by the indigenous communities.

In the last 15 years, the Land and Survey Department received 615 claims for NCR land involving 1,164 people throughout the state.

Of the total, 207 cases were given recognition, 70 cases were dropped while 338 were still being investigated, Musa said.

He also said of the 348,652 land titles issued by the department until last year, 55 per cent of 190,452 were native titles issued to indigenous owners.

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Special unit on NCR land soon

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.

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Isu tuntutan tanah, Kerajaan bersetuju beri peruntukan

Kerajaan persekutuan melalui mesyuarat Jemaah Menteri pada 1 Julai 2011 bersetuju memberi peruntukan kewangan kepada Hak Adat Anak Negeri di Sabah sebanyak RM25,703,600 bagi membantu dan menyokong usaha-usaha Kerajaan negeri Sabah menangani isu tuntutan tanah.

 Kerajaan setuju peruntuk RM25 juta tangani isu tuntutan tanah

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NCR: Double allocation to clear backlog of land claim, urges Ongkili

Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Seri Dr Maximus Ongkili today urged the state government to double its current allocation to clear the backlog of land claims involving natives.  

  many native land claims have yet to be processed despite applications made years ago

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