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| Awang Tengah (front, fifth right) with Mohamad Ali (third left), Idris (third right), Brahim (fourth right), other VIPs and recipients after the presentation ceremony |
KUCHING: Bumiputeras in Sarawak have been warned that perimeter survey would not be conducted on their Native Customary Rights (NCR) land if disputes over boundaries between kampongs or longhouses are not resolved.
Second Minister of Resource Planning and Environment Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan said he had instructed the Land and Survey Department not to proceed with perimeter survey on land whose boundary have not been mutually agreed on between community leaders (Ketua Kampung, Tuai Rumah, Ketua Kaum, Penghulu) of the kampongs or longhouses affected.
“We will not tolerate any group of the local community who cannot settle their dispute amicably because the government wants to ensure smooth implementation of the perimeter surveys.
“If there is no toleration among the local community leaders and the villagers, it’s better for us to leave them and proceed to other places.
“I don’t want the Land and Survey Department to waste their time in the place that refuses to tolerate each other and cooperate with the authority,” he said.
Awang Tengah, who is also Minister of Industrial and Entrepreneur Development, Trade and Investment, gave this reminder at a ceremony to present land titles, compensation cheques and gazetted communal land reserve title to Bumiputeras in Kota Samarahan yesterday.
As of now, he said the state government had succeeded in carrying out perimeter survey on over 749,134 hectares of NCR communal land reserves since the new NCR Initiative was announced by the Prime Minister in July 2010.
He said the federal government had allocated RM30 million for the state to continue with the programme next year.
“For the second phase, the implementation will also include surveying individual land and the issuance of individual land titles under Section 18.
“But this also can only be done if there is no dispute among the individual land owners within the communal land reserves,” he said.
On the new NCR Initiative, Awang Tengah explained that it is a two-pronged approach that involves perimeter survey to delineate boundaries of NCR land within state land which will then be declared as Native Communal Reserve under Section 6 of the Land Code, which is a statutory recognition of ownership over NCR land.
He said after that, the NCR landowners would then determine the boundaries of their individual parcels within the communal reserve, to enable individual survey to be carried out, culminating in the issuance of individual land title under Section 18 of the Land Code.
Pointing out that the land titles will have no expiry date, he said they are to be assets of the Bumiputeras and the heritage of their forefathers.
“Except when the government needs the land for development purposes, nobody can take the land from them.
“But even if the government acquires the land, it will be compensated accordingly,” he said.
Elaborating further, Awang Tengah said the new NCR Initiative is an ongoing programme to recognise native rights over their land and provide security of land ownership to Bumiputeras.
Among those present at the ceremony were Stakan assemblyman Dato Sri Mohamad Ali Mahmud, Muara Tuang assemblyman Datuk Idris Buang and Land and Survey deputy director (management) Brahim Lumpu.
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