Pakatan Rakyat konsisten lindungi hak orang asl

KERAJAAN Pakatan Rakyat Selangor akan terus memelihara dan melindungi hak-hak warisan rakyat yang sudah tinggal di Semenanjung sejak berabad lama.

Menurut Menteri Besar Selangor Abdul Khalid Ibrahim pendirian kerajaan Selangor adalah sangat konsisten dan telah terbukti dengan penubuhan Badan Bertindak Tanah Orang Asli Selangor (BBTOAS).

“Saya mengucapkan tahniah kepada anda semua kerana menubuhkan Badan Bertindak ini supaya dapat bekerjasama dengan Badan Bertindak Tanah dalam usaha menyelesaikan isu-isu tertunggak yang melibatkan rasa tidak puas hati berhubung dengan tanah milikan Orang Asli,” katanya dalam ucapan perasmianya hari ini.

BBTOAS antara lain berperanan untuk menjaga hak-hak orang asli antaranya tanah dan warisan etnik itu.

Kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat Selangor menurut Khalid telah memberikan perakuan dan mengembalikan hak-hak mereka bagi mengiktiraf kedudukan dan hak asasi sebagai kumpulan orang yang menjadi warganegara.

Contohnya 22 April lepas yang mana kerajaan negeri telah menarik balik rayuan terhadap kes Sagong Tasi di Mahkamah Persekutuan.

“Dengan penarikan kes tersebut bereti kita bersetuju dengan keputusan mahkamah supaya masyarakat Orang Asli dibayar wang sagu hati yang berpatutan menurut Akta Pemilikan Tanah. Ia juga bermakna, kita menghargai kedudukan masyarakat Orang Asli,” kaanya lagi.

Jelas Khalid lagi BBTOAS merupakan titik tolak untuk melaksanakan tugas yang lebih bessar iaitu bagi memastikan tanah Orang Asli diwartakan.

Selain itu, BBTOAS juga akan memastikan hak milik tanah dikeluarkan kepada masyarakat Orang Asli ddan langkah seterunya mengadakan perbincangan antara Orang Asli dengan Kerajaan Negeri berhubung memenuhi keperluan mereka dalam jangka panjang.

“Kerajaan Negeri berjanji untuk memastikan aspek-aspek kebudayaan, tradisi, nilai, adat resam dan kepercayaan masyarakat Orang Asli dibiarkan kekal terpelihara sebagaimana yang dinikmati oleh masyarakat lain walaupun projek pembangunan berancang giat dilakukan oleh pihak kerajaan negeri,” katanya lagi.

Tanah Temuan di Kg Sebir N. Sembilan

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SELANGOR GOVERNMENT ENDS LAND ACQUISITION DISPUTE WITH TEMUAN TRIBE IN SAGONG TASI CASE

SHAH ALAM: The State Executive Councilors’ Meeting today decided to withdraw the State Government’s appeal to the Federal Court with respect to the Sagong Tasi case involving the acquisition of 38.477 acres of the Temuan tribe’s customary lands at Bukit Tampoi, Dengkil in 1995.

Accordingly, the State Legal Advisor will inform the Federal Court tomorrow of the State Government’s intention to withdraw from the case.

The State has also taken into account the concerns raised in the Court of Appeal judgment in respect of the gazette of Orang Asli land and has formed an Orang Asli Land Taskforce – which will be launched on May 4, 2009 - to address land-related issues.

The Pakatan Rakyat Government in Selangor hopes that the decision will foster a stronger working relationship needed to address all the problems of the Orang Asli who have been marginalized from mainstream development. The State Government believes in protecting the rights of indigenous peoples and will continue to treat the Orang Asli community with the respect they deserve and that should have been accorded to them from the very beginning.

TAN SRI ABDUL KHALID IBRAHIM

SELANGOR MENTERI BESAR

Preserve orang asli rights: Selangor Sultan

SHAH ALAM: The Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, has asked for the rights of the orang asli (aborigines) to be returned to them, especially with regards to their land which had been seized. The state had come to a stage where the acknowledgement of the rights of every Selangorian has become the basic principle of its administration. "This is important with regard to the land of the orang asli (aborigine) community," he said in his opening speech at the state assembly sitting Tuesday. "In the last few years, the orang asli community has undergone an erosion of identity and it is time their rights be returned to them with the resolution of their land problems. "I want to stress the need to acknowledge and preserve orang asli land which had been seized from them in the last few years," said the Sultan. Sultan Sharafuddin also urged the state government to expedite the identification and gazetting of orang asli land. "They should be given the land which is rightfully theirs," he added. The Sultan said the orang asli community had a rich history with its own tradition, culture, values and perspective -- which need not be sacrificed in the name of development. Sultan Sharafuddin also said the dialogue initiated by the state government with the orang asli community recently should be continued. He also urged the state's executive council members to declare their assets as soon as possible in line with good governance. The declaration of assets should also be accessible to the public online, he added. The Sultan also emphasised the need for good governance in all aspects of the state administration and added that the integrity and accountability practised by the current state government would be upheld.

Edisi Pahang: Orang Asli Bera Menderita Mencari Sesuap Nasi, Mana Hilangnya Segala Janji Manis Ahli Parlimen Bera Datuk Ismail Sabri Masa PRU!

BERA [11.55 am] - Alah bisa tegal biasa. Begitu juga perumpamaan bagi menggambarkan kehidupan masyarakat Orang Asli Kampung Chuat dekat sini. Bagi mereka aroma yang mengundang rasa mual bagi sesetengah orang tidak pula berlaku terhadap mereka. Itulah suasana yang biasa dapat dilihat di pusat pelupusan sampah milik Majlis Daerah Bera di kawasan seluas 60 ekar. Di situlah sumber pendapatan sampingan bagi segelintir masyarakat Orang Asli. Ketika ditemui mereka berkata, tempat pelupusan sampah di lokasi berkenaan dikunjungi setiap dua hari sekali bagi mencari sesuatu barang yang masih dianggap berharga. "Walaupun kotor, bau busuk kami sudah masak dengan keadaan ini. Kami tak kisah. "Janji kami boleh cari pendapatan untuk hidup, itu saja," katanya yang sudah beberapa tahun mencari rezeki di tempat pelupusan sampah. Rakannya yang juga yang enggan dikenali berkata, pendapatan hasil mengumpul barangan di tempat tersebut tidak seberapa, namun sudah memadai sebagai punca pendapatan sampingan. "Tak menentu pendapatan. Bergantung pada banyak barang yang dapat. Kalau banyak, adalah sikit tambahan pendapatan. "Adakalanya RM15. Kadang-kadang dapat juga RM30 sehari. Dapatlah menampung pendapatan sedia ada," katanya. Sumber rezeki hariannya menangkap ikan di sungai. Mereka mengutip apa sahaja barang yang dikira masih boleh dipakai sama ada untuk kegunaan sendiri atau dijual. Antaranya pakaian, barangan elektrik, tupperware, besi dan tembaga. "Kalau besi, tembaga kita jual. Dapat duit boleh buat belanja," katanya. Mereka juga memberitahu menjelang musim perayaan biasanya banyak barang yang dibuang tetapi masih boleh diguna semula.

[Mana pergi Ahli Parlimen Bera, Ismail Sabri Yaakob?. Ketika kempen pilihanraya umum ke-12 yang lalu nampaknya bukan main lagi mereka melayan orang asli di Bera ini bagi memancing undi. jangankan duit diberi secara tunai, malahan arak turut disajikan dengan bantuan Radio Asyik FM berkampung selama 3 hari 3 malam di hutan Bera untuk "bersewang". Akhirnya majoriti orang Asli memangkahlah UMNO dan Barisan Nasional. Macam-macam yang dijanjikan oleh puak-puak UMNO bagi membangunkan serta membela nasib orang asli ini. Namun, akhirnya mereka terus merempat dan menderita seperti biasa. Janji hanya tinggal janji. Segalanya kini menjadi bukti betapa rakusnya puak-puak UMNO mempergunakan orang asli untuk berkuasa. Di Pahang, kekuatan BN sebenarnya bergantung kepada orang asli dan juga peneroka Felda. Jika tidak, sudah pasti mereka juga telah dihumbankan dalam pilihanraya lalu].

Orang asli land dispute

Star Online

Saturday january 3, 2009

A dispute is brewing over what an orang asli community near Seremban claim is their land that is being taken over by ‘outsiders’.

However, the authorities say that the land being developed is ouside the orang asli reserve.

The 50 families from the Temuan tribe living in an aboriginal reserve at Kampung Sebir, situated just on the outskirts of Seremban, claim that even the ancestral graves located on the fringes of their reserve were also at risk of being desecrated.

Lone survivor: Two orang asli showing a petai tree that had been spared.

The villagers, whose roots date back more than two centuries, claim that their fruit trees and crops that were cultivated on their customary land (tanah adat) were being destroyed.

Village head Tok Batin Uval Bujang, 85, said rubber trees that were planted decades ago were felled when bulldozers recently encroached into the approximately 60ha area.

“We depend on the land and the forest for our livelihood.

“How are we to earn a living or feed our families when outsiders come in here and just destroy our crops?

“Many of the fruit trees and herbs we use for medicinal purposes have been cleared by these trespassers. Even the temiang trees from which we make blowpipes for hunting were felled,” he said.

Hard at work: Some of the villagers harvesting Bertam, which is used to make their blowpipes.

The headman said the orang asli had lodged two police reports against the encroachers but no action was taken.

He said they had also taken their grievances to the Orang Asli Affairs Department but nothing was forthcoming.

“We have tried to stop them but our complaints have fallen on deaf ears.

“I just hope the authorities would be able to stop these people from coming on to our land,” said Uval, adding that the orang asli had stopped two excavators from further felling trees in their customary land last week.

He said the if the encroachers needed to pass through their land, they should pay the orang asli some form of compensation if their trees were felled.

Many of the villagers are now living below the poverty line with an average household income of about RM300. Previously, their income was derived from selling forest produce and hunting which brought in about RM900 a month per family.

They claim the encroachment of their land and the felling of cash crops had led to a steady decline in income.

Off we go: The orang asli women visit the forest daily to tap rubber and pick fruits.

Zurdi Baharu, 27, said many youngsters now do odd jobs just to make ends meet as they hardly had any forest produce to sell.

“We used to be able to tap rubber and harvest petai, mangosteen and durian from our orchard but, after they cleared our land, we are at a loss as to what to do.

“We have always lived off the land... taking only what we needed for our daily consumption and livelihood.

“Even our traditional attire and tools are made from forest materials. We don’t want to lose our way of life,” he said.

Another villager July Lanchong, 48, wants the state government to gazette the customary land or tanah saka as an orang asli reserve.

“The customary land was given to us by the British government to enable us to hunt as well as to collect jungle produce. We cannot be running after outsiders all the time.

“The state authorities must understand that the forest is the life and soul of the orang asli.

Ancient site: Zurdi Baharu (left) and his friend Sebastian Kessu showing the site of one of the graves.

“If you take this way from us, you would take away our customs and traditions,” he said.

State plantation affairs, human resources, environment and public complaints committee chairman V.S Mogan said although the orang asli have been living in the area for more than a century, they could not claim the rights to the customary land.

“We empathise with them but the land outside the orang asli reserve belongs to others.

“The community cannot claim ownership of the customary land,” he said, adding that he would meet the orang asli to explain the matter.

State Orang Asli Affairs Department director Bakar Unus concurred with Mogan.

“We can’t do anything much because the customary land or tanah saka does not belong to them.

“From what we understand, the state authorities had given out the plots to be worked on by other parties,” he said.

However, Bakar said he would meet with the state land and mines department officials to see how best they could help the community.

Bukit Kepayang assemblyman Cha Kee Chin, whose jurisdiction includes Kampung Sebir, expressed hope that the state government would look into the plight of the community.

“It is unfortunate that the orang asli do not have ownership rights to what they consider their customary land.

“In the eyes of the law, their land is only what has been gazetted as the aboriginal reserve, which is the present site of their settlement.

“However, as the community has been there for generations, over time, they have come to consider the land adjoining the reserve as their own,” he said.

Cha said the state authorities should stop issuing licenses for logging or the clearing of this customary land for whatever purpose.

“The matter has already been brought up with the state government.

“Although the land does not belong to the orang asli, we cannot forget that these people have cultivated the land for generations.

“What they want is just to stop others from clearing the land of crops they have cultivated for decades as well as from destroying ancestral graves located in the area. The forest is their livelihood and I feel we should at least respect that,” he said.

Terima kasih kepada Dr Syed Husin Ali -- Orang Asli menaruh hrapan baru.

Ucapan penangguhan Dr Syed Husin Ali, Timbalan Presiden Parti Keadilan Rakyat meninggalkan kesan yang sangat positif terhadap perjuangan dan tuntutan Orang Asli terhadap tanah-tanah mereka. Dr Syed Husin Ali menyeru Kerajaan-Kerajaan Negeri di bawah Pakatan Rakyat supaya mengeluarkan geran tanah untuk penduduk Orang Asal dibawah pemerintahan masing-masing. Dr Syed berucap demikian semasa sesi ucapan penangguhan dan penggulungan kepada Kongres Nasional PKR ke-5 yang berakhir pada 30hb November 2008. Dengan mengeluarkan geran tanah kepada Orang Asal di Semenanjung maka akan memudahkan kerja-kerja PKR/Pakatan Rakyat di Sarawak dan Sabah untuk menzahirkan bukti kepada Orang Asal di Sabah dan Sarawak bahawa hanya dibawah pemerintahan Pakatan Rakyat sahaja mereka boleh diberikan tanah secara bergeran. Ucapan Dr Syed Husin tersebut bukan sahaja menghidupkan aspirasi Orang Asal di Semananjung yang telah menunggu lebih dari 50 tahun untuk mendapatkan geran tanah demi mengelakkan tanah mereka diceroboh dan diserahmilik kepada orang lain atau institusi-institusi kerajaan, bahkan menjadi inspirasi kepada Orang Asal di Sabah dan Sarawak akan hak mereka keatas tanah yang mereka telah diami dari turun-temurun. Orang Asal di Sabah dan Sarawak mengingatkan bahawa apabila mereka "Merdeka" sejak 45 tahun dahulu, tanah-tanah mereka telah diambil-alih oleh kerajaan, tanah-tanah yang mereka telah teroka berpuluh tahun terdahulu tiba-tiba menjadi milik kepada orang lain; kalau mereka yang memohon tanah tidak pernah dilayan, tetapi tanah-tanah yang mereka diami sejak turun-temurun tiba-tiba menjadi hak orang lain. Kerajaan-Kerajaan Pakatan adalah serius untuk menyelesaikan masalah tanah dan tanah adat Orang Asal di Semenanjung. Kerajaan Perak telah meluluskan secara dasarnya untuk mengeluarkan geran keatas 48,000 Orang Asli di Negeri itu dan pengukuran tanah sedang didalam proses yang aktif. Dr Syed Husin menyarankan supaya kerajaan-kerajaan Negeri dari Pakatan melakukan tindakan yang segera supaya Orang Asli di Negeri-Negeri di bawah Pakatan Rakyat memperolehi geran tanah keatas tanah adat, tanah kampong dan perladangan bagi mereka. Beliau menyeru supaya Kerajaan Negeri Selangor mengambil inisiatif awal dan mendahului Negeri-Negeri Pakatan yang lain dari segi pengeluaran geran ini. Jika ini dapat dilakukan sebelum Pilihanraya Negeri Sarawak yang dijangka berlangsung dipenghujung tahun 2009, maka apa yang dihasratkan oleh Parti Keadilan Rakyat untuk mejadikan Sarawak Negeri yang ke-6 yang akan terlucut dari BN beralih kepada Pakatan Rakyat boleh menjadi kenyataan. Memorandum demi memorandum telah disampaikan oleh badan-badan NGO mewakili Orang Asal termasuk POASM supaya Kerajaan dapat mengeluarkan geran untuk Orang Asli di Semenanjung. Mereka juga menjemput pemimpin-pemimpin tertinggi Kerajaan untuk merasmikan mesyuarat-mesyuarat mereka termasuk Najib Tun Razak. Mereka meluahkan tuntutan mereka semasa mesyuarat itu, namun, apa yang mereka dapat hanyalah "lip-service", mereka diberikan pujian, ucapan terima kasih juga diberikan kepada mereka kerana sanggup menyokong Barisan Nasinal, namun, apa yang mereka pinta tidak diperolehi. Berterusan tidak diperolehi. Baru-baru ini penulis ada melawat kawasan Orang Asli di sempadan Felda Klau iaitu di Kg Temir yang menempatkan lebihkurang 1000 orang penduduk Orang Asli. Mereka dipinta berpindah untuk memberi laluan kepada takungan air yang akan disalirkan ke Selangor. Mereka mengeluh: "Kenapa Orang Melayu di Felda Klau itu dapat pampasan, dan kami tidak?" Apabila mereka diberitahu bahawa Orang Melayu itu ada mempunyai geran tanah, mereka bertanya: "Kenapa kami tidak diberikan geran tanah, sedangkan kami lebih lama tinggal di kawasan ini?" Keluhan sebegini adalah keluhan yang sama yang diluahkan oleh Orang Asli seluruh Pahang. Mereka telah menyaksikan tanah-tanah yang dikatakan Rezab Orang Asli telah diteroka oleh pembalak-pembalak, telah diteroka oleh kumpulan lain untuk dijadikan ladang komersial. Melalui ucapan Dr Syed Husin Ali itu, amatlah diharapkan kelima-lima buah Negeri Pakatan Rakyat itu akan sedar betapa mulianya jika mereka bertindak segera untuk mengeluarkan geran tanah kepada Orang Asli di Negeri-Negeri pemerintahan mereka dan dengan itu memudahkan penerimaan Orang Asal di Sabah dan Sarawak menyokong Pakatan Rakyat di Sabah dan Sarawak dan dengan itu memudahkan usaha untuk menubuhkan Negeri ke-6 untuk Sarawak ditadbirkan oleh Pakatan Rakyat didalam Pilihanraya Negeri Sarawak dipenghujung tahun depan. Posted by Suhaimi Said