Asian group will seek foreign help for their land rights


A group of Iban Ladies from Sebuyau busily harvesting paddy on a 1 acre land in Lundu,some 100km away from Kuching .According to one of them an acre fetces a rental of RM50.

MIRI: The call by the Jaringan Orang Asal SeMalaysia (JOAS) for the state governments to empower indigenous communities with greater land rights has received support from the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP).

AIPP had issued a statement that the regional coalition of native communities in Asia endorsed the stand taken by JOAS that native communities in Malaysia be given due legal protection over their voice on development projects on the ancestral land they have lived in for centuries.

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