Showing posts with label Land issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Land issues. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Sabah's Communal titles

                                                                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.