MUKAH: The Land and Survey Department has so far successfully conducted a perimeter survey on 1,011,566 hectares of native customary rights (NCR) lands statewide under the new initiative since 2010.
Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan said of the total, 780,203 hectares had been gazetted under the new initiative of the NCR Land Surveying programme.
He explained the programme was very efficient and important in determining a clear NCR land boundary, and registered in the Land Registry and Bumiputera Communal Reserve Gazette under Section 6 of the State Land Code (KTN).
“To ensure that survey work can be implemented successfully, claimants to NCR lands must cooperate with the department, by identifying the boundary through proper clearing, free from boundary quarrels and claims and be present when surveying is being carried out,” he said.
Awang Tengah, who is also Minister of Urban Development and Natural Resources II, said this when officiating at the presentation of land titles under Section 18 State Land Code (KTN) and approval letters of residential lots (SPK) in Tellian constituency at Kingwood Resort, KM15 Jalan Mukah-Balingian on Sunday (Nov 21).
He revealed that so far 47,769 individual lots had been surveyed involving areas totalling 58,371 hectares.
Some 18,546 lots involving areas totalling 42,546 hectares had been and would be issued with land titles under Section 18 KTN.
Awang Tengah, who is also Minister of International Trade and Industry, Industrial Terminal and Entrepreneurial Development, said in 2018 the government amended KTN and gave legal power to Native Terrotorial Domain (NTD) to ensure that all lands which have Bumiputera customary rights and involved in usufructuary right were recognised.
He added the amendment provided the opportunity to the Bumiputera community to be given attention and consideration, provided that they fulfilled the criteria specified in NTD.
He said the aim of the government was to help the people who have the genuine rights, and would certainly do so based on the cooperation of the people to survey the lands involved and issue native communal title.
