Musa Aman & Masidi Manjun (Insight Sabah)
Sabah Chief Minister, Datuk Musa Aman said that the government's move to issue communal
land titles is to ensure that the state's indigenous communities do not end up landless.
Sabah natives had the tendency to sell of land alienated to them, even the land is still at
the land application (LA) stage. The land eventually end up at the hand of outsiders.
Musa added that the issuance of communal land titles was aimed at ensuring that land
allocated to the indigenous communities could not be sold and later would be inherited by future
generations.
The state government had issued communal titles to villagers in Nabawan, Tonggod and
Tenom over the last two years.
Read more at: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/11/22/nation/9948097&sec=nation
*In my point of view, the state government effort in issuing the communal land titles to the landless
Sabahan is a brilliant decision. Apart from giving the deserved and landless Sabahan an
opportunities to actually own a land, they will have 0% of possibility to lose the land by selling it to others.
opportunities to actually own a land, they will have 0% of possibility to lose the land by selling it to others.
