Pining for their ancestral land

Optimistic: Residents of Sabah’s Murut villages in Kampung Balantos, Salung and Salingkuan in the interior Pensiangan area are hopeful that their ancestral rights will be protected.

KOTA KINABALU: The Murut people of Sabah’s interior are now hopeful of getting back their ancestral land in a longstanding dispute after the Chief Minister’s assurance that their native customary land rights would be protected.

The residents of Kampung Balantos, Kampung Salung and Kampung Sinikaluan in Pagalungan, Nabawan district, about 200km from here, said they were extremely happy that Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor was looking into their plight.