Wednesday 18 January 2012

SABAH NATIVES SUFFERED UNDER UMNO?



By : JAMES AIT

UNDER Umno-led rule in Sabah, the Natives especially those living in remote areas are the one who had suffered most in term of land-grabs and opportunities in economic agriculture.

In Kuamut constituency alone, thousands of natives of the Dusunic group lost enormous sizes of land to outsiders including Peninsular-based companies who were given huge tract of land for oil palm plantation.

Not only that, kampungs that had existed even before Malaysia was formed in 1963 suddenly found to be inside certain Forest Reserve. Such kampungs are Alitang, Mangkawagu, Namukon, Minusuh, Tampasak Darat, Tampasak Laut and Saguon which are dwelled mostly by the Dusun Tambanuo.

If Barisan Nasional is sincere in helping the natives, its state government could have easily excised these kampungs from the gazetted forest reserve for this situation has put tremendious mental pressure to the natives families.

We the natives gave successive governments mandate to rule over us to manage this country, our land matters, our well-beings but sadly this government today have deserted us simply maybe because it is no longer beholden to us the natives.

I would like to ask the Chief Minister why does his government lack in respect to Natives Rights as stipulated in the United Nation Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous people (UNDRIP) which was ratified by Malaysia in 2007?

The majority of natives in Kuamut today are disappointed, and i will be proven right at the coming polls. I was told by many of the older folks that it seemed life during British rule was much better in term of freedom and rights to be heard.

During British rule, the natives of Borneo lived happily in this land, no matter how scarce modern amenities there were but they had freedom to live.

Today natives are restricted to a small corner, in fact being trapped in forest reserve and companies' lands. They missed the olden days when they could move freely in their customary lands (as the British upheld NCR unlike the current Umno-PBS-Upko-led BN government). They were free to toil their NCR but today their NCR lands have been and are being taken away from them.

What astonished me and many in Kuamut is that leaders from Upko and PBS have been silenced, not effective at all in protecting us the poor natives. And what startled me more is the fact that an Upko senior leader is involved in a company that now cleared a huge NCR land in Kuamut whereby native villagers had been assigned to a mere few kilometers or acreage of lands along the kampung roads!

Star, under the sympathetic leadership of Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan, will definitely help the natives reclaim their rights, given the chance to do so after the general election.

13 comments:

  1. Saya yakin bahawa semua orang asli dalam negara juga mengalami nasib yang sama.

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  2. Cubalah tengok orang asli di Sarawak dan juga semenanjung, masalah ini bukan sahaja berlaku di Sabah sahaja.

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    1. orng asli juga kena mendapat layanan sama rata seprti yang lain.

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    2. diharapkan perkara yang diketengahkan dalam artikel ini diperjelaskan oleh pihak-pihak yang berkaitan.

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    3. tapi di Sabah yang paling banyak kes tentang rampasan tanah yang telah dilaporkan.

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  3. hopefully the government will take measures to rectify the situation pertaining to the natives in Sabah.

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  4. Hopefully the Sabah native will be more developing in lifestyle and economy.

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  5. wakil2 kerajaan yang telah diberi amanah tu harus bertanggungjawab membantu rakyat Sabah yang berada jauh di pedalaman.

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  6. paling banyaklah masalah tentang tanah. harap kerajaan dapat menguruskan tanah2 mereka yang dirampas oleh syarikat2 besar.

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  7. Jangan biarkan orang asli sabah menderita dan tidak diambil peduli. Seharusnya mereka juga perlu mendapat hak mereka.

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  8. Treated Sabahans fairly. Protect the natives rights. Their voices must be heard.

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  9. penderitaan rakyat terutamanya dikawasan pedalaman juga menggambarkan kegagalan pihak pembangkang dalam membantu rakyat yang sangat memerlukan pertolongan mereka melalui saluran politik.. jika ada masalah penduduk kampung yang berjaya diselesaikan oleh pemimpin2 pemangkang terutamanya berkenaan dengan rampasan tanah, kenapa masalah yang sama di kampung2 lain tidak dapat mereka selesaikan?? adakah pembangkang hanya memilih kes yang boleh menang sahaja? dan membiarkan kes yang sukar diselesaikan berlegar2 di media??

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  10. kerajaan sentiasa membuka peluang2 ekonomi di kawasan pedalaman seperti yang berlaku di Pulau Banggi. namun ada sesetangah kawasan yang mana projek ransangan ekonomi oleh kerajaan dikawasan tersebut terpaksa ditunda atau dibatalkan ekoran bantahan penduduk kampung sendiri, kononnya tanah penduduk kampung dirampas untuk tujuan itu..

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