BETONG: The Sarawak government has set aside RM40 million for next year to undertake the ongoing perimeter survey of Native Customary Rights (NCR) land in the state, said Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah. Uggah, who is also Modernisation of Agriculture, Native Land and Regional Development Minister, said the allocation was a gesture of its goodwill to help the NCR landowners.
“We have our peculiarities and complexities like the NCR land… then there are the related issues like the ‘pemakai menoa’ (territorial domain) and the ‘pulau galau’ (communal forest reserve),” he said at a meet-the-people session at Rh Entiggan in Munggu Gernis in Spaoh here. As such, he said the suggestion made by a federal minister in Putrajaya recently to have a single national land code was impractical and a non-issue.
On land issues, Uggah reminded the people not to easily believe constant postings on the social media that the Gabungan Parti Sarawak ( GPS ) government would continue to grab land of the natives without fair compensation to carry out development projects.
“There are certain people whose only daily preoccupation it seems is to criticise the government and its leaders… They must find faults and issues or make them up if they cannot find any, just to make their day” he added. – Bernama
