Wednesday 8 February 2012

STAR WILL ESTABLISH LAND COMMISSION

By : KANUL GINDUL

STATE Reform Party (STAR), the main proponent of United Borneo Alliance (UBA), said a state government it leads would definitely establish a State Land Commission and land tribunal, given a chance to form the state government at the coming general election.

STAR Sabah chapter chairman Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan, in a statement today said a STAR-led UBA agrees to the suggestion made recently by the Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak, Tan Sri Ricard Malanjum, that a land tribunal fashioned to the Waitangi Tribunal should be established in Sabah.

"We would also decentralise land management under a five states or provinces administration, giving power to Ketua Kampungs and Native Courts to scrutinise land applications," he said.

Dr Jeffrey said the role of Ketua Kampung in evaluating land applications would be restored and that inherent native rights would be be given priority and taken into consideration.

"We will also give priority to recognising native rights including the documentation of native customary rights in the land and survey mapping which will be based on demographic survey.

"The demographic survey would enable us to recognise which are native settlements and which are not," he said.

Meanwhile, at the launching of STAR in Pitas recently, Dr Jeffrey had said STAR opposed the proposed listing of FELDA as this would pave for anyone to own lands currently alienated to FELDA in Sabah.

"There are 300,000 acres of FELDA land in Sabah, and if FELDA is listed on the stock exchange, anyone can own FELDA land eventually, and Sabahans do not want this," he said in Pitas.

13 comments:

  1. The State Land Commission and Tribunal should be supported as these are good movement to help resolve the land issues especially for the native and ancestral lands.

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  2. Better land management and distribution should be made so that the people's land rights will be protected.

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  3. Land tribunal has already been proposed by Tan Sri Malanjum. It is currently being reviewedc by the government.

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  4. Of course all of this IS do-able....provided of course of STAR is given the mandate.

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  5. another hero. good luck to you. Hopefully STAR not drowning in a sea of political

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  6. tribunal ini perlu dalam membantu penduduk dalam memiliki tanah. dgn ini pasti masalah tanah di sabah dpt diselesaikan.

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    1. we support the move done by government. hope it can protect the rights of rakyat in Sabah.

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  7. How many votes will STAR collect?? we'll see it soon

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  8. tanah2 yang menjadi hak2 penduduk pasti dapt dijaga dgn baik.

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  9. even in Sarawak they have no achievement. how's in Sabah?

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  10. STAR mula mengatur langkah bagi memastikan terus mendapat sokongan dari penduduk Sabah. Mungkin bukan mudah kerana STAR sendiri tidak mampu bertanding dengan parti di Sarawak.

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  11. if only you are given the chance by the rakyat.. even how sweet your promises is, if you refuse to cooperate with other opposition parties, you will never have a chance to fulfill your sweet promises..

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  12. at the moment you introduce STAR in this state, people are begin to lost confidence with your agendas..

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