How Taib Mahmud's Government Robs The Native Of Their NCR Lands

Friday, 28th December 2012
Kuantan, Pahang

Explosive Revelation by DAP MP on How Taib Mahmud and his gang of thugs Robbed the Native of their NCR Lands. But where are all the Dayak Politicians?

 

 

KUCHING: Seventy Selakau families in Kampung Kendaie in Lundu, some 150km from here, have claimed that they have been cheated of their lands. The families participated in a joint venture agreement with Rimbunan Hijau oil plantation company and state government agency, Land Custody Development Authority (LCDA).

 

Revealing this, Sarawak DAP secretary Chong Chieng Jen said: “In the course of the joint venture arrangement, the people have suffered triple whammy (exploited three times).

 

“Firstly, they were cheated of their native customary rights land which is about 2,000 acres plus. After a perimeter survey, their NCR land was reduced to 1,000 plus. And the government told them that the remainder of the land had become state land.” Chong, who is also the MP for Bandar Kuching said..

 

Secondly the local people were cheated of jobs. “The plantation company offered them RM15 a day. If they worked full time for 30 days, they would only get RM450 per month with a one day rest for the following month. “When the NCR land owners refused to work, they were branded as lazy, and as a substitute the oil palm company brought in cheap foreign workers. They were paid lower. This is the ultimate exploitation,” Chong said.

He said that the third layer of exploitation was when the landowners were paid approximately RM200 per acre per year. “Based on international price of palm oil last year, the nett profit of oil palm plantation company was RM200 per acre per month. “And yet the landowners under the joint venture scheme of the government were paid RM200 per acre per year. All the other profits of the 11 months of the year went to the plantation company. “That is what I call a triple whammy exploitation,” he said, pointing out that the government had failed the people under this joint venture agreement.

 

Income inequality Chong said LCDA, as a government agency, was supposed to protect the interest of the NCR landowners. He said the villagers had nobody to turn to and their complaints to the authorities fell on deaf ears. “I think the government’s so-called joint venture scheme for the development of NCR land is so lopsided. It only benefits the plantation companies at the expense of the NCR land owners. “That is why the income inequality is such a huge problem in Sarawak’s economy.

They do not get their rightful income from their land,” he said. Chong’s advice to those who are yet to sign their joint venture agreement is for them to wait until after the election when the Pakatan Rakyat formed the next government. “Under our alternative budget for 2011, we have allocated RM100 million to develop about 100,000 acres as a pilot project.

 

“For NCR land owners, if we become the next government we will come out with RM100 million to develop 100,000 NCR land and provide necessary equipment including seedlings required to carry out the plantation. “At the end of the day all the proceeds from the sale from these plantations will go solely to the land owners,” he said adding that the Pakatan government would not do business.

To all the natives, the choice is yours whether all of you still want to get cheated by BN thugs or to choose the Pakatan Rakyat who will set aside the RM100 million to develop your lands....Remaung6Renjer 

Mupok Aku

F**k You Masing: JV In Pantu Is Not Profitable

Kuching
Saturday, 18th June 2011

Masing Damn You..The JV in Pantu is Not Profitable. With the Land code Proposed Amendment Who is Going to Protect the NCR Land Owners.

To All the Three Tan Sri :Firstly Congratulations Tan Sri; Secondly  Did  the three of you Buy the Titles with Our NCR Lands. If  Not...Get them Back

 for us !...Bukittunggal.Com

Yesterday Masing proposed that the BN Backbenchers are going to propose for  the amendment  of land code in order to protect the investors in the JV. According to Masing this amendment will prevent the land owner from withdraw from the JV. Masing added this amendment is to cover the loophole as a result of the NCR court case in Pantu whereby the case was won by the land owners.

I would like to ask Masing whether he is working for the investors or for the people that voted for them. The JV in Pantu is always in the red since it was signed in  year 2004. After 7 years the landowners had never been paid with dividend. Under the JV, upon signing of the JV each landowner is supposed to be paid with RM 1200 per acre. But Kim Loong or Pelita had cheated the landowners by paying  the dividend by instalments. So far   this had been done in December and June 2011.

Under the JV, there are three ingredients which made the land owners at the losing site. They are :-

Firstly, PHSB was to receive and collect the benefits of the development of the native customary rights land into an oil palm plantation, not the landowners;

“Secondly, the commercial development of the native customary rights land into an oil palm plantation was to be carried out by a joint venture company formed by PHSB and TASB, a company exclusively chosen by PHSB under a joint-venture agreement in respect of which the landowners are not even a party to.

“Thirdly, the native customary rights lands are immediately amalgamated and title is to be issued in the name of the 'joint venture' company and the landowners would have no beneficial legal equitable or caveatable interest in the land to be issued with title.

Will Masing the Chief Land robbery, with the proposed amendment since the land owners cannot withdraw from the JV even if they knew that they are risk losing their Lands. Being one of the land owners that were cheated by PELITA to participate in Pantu JV, I warn you Masing that Land is our (Iban) Blood...We will use whatever it takes in order to take back our lands.

Mupok Aku

SALCRA Pays It Participants With Dividend RM124 Per Hectare/Month For Year 2010

Kuching
Tuesday, 30th Nov 2010

SALCRA's Participants: This is Where Your Dividend Gone To

SALCRA : After 34 Years Of Being Established Only Manage to Pay It Participants RM124 Per Hectare/Month For Year 2010 Dividend

Alfred Jabu today has made an announcement that Sarawak Land Consolidation and Rehabilitation Authority (Salcra) is to pay the biggest dividend ever next year, and it will be disbursed in two phases.

Jabu who is also the SALCRA Chairman proudly told the reporters that SALCRA participants or landowners who run 18 estates will receive a total sum of RM 74.26 million. According to him the 2010 payout is a marked increase by more than RM37 million compared with 2009, where only RM37 million was paid out. But 2009 divident was lesser than year 2008, where the divident was paid at RM52 million.

Is the Dividend Pay-Out Significant  To The Participants/Landowners?

The RM 74.26 Million may be sound big but if we divide it by 50000 hectares which is the size of lands being developed by SALCRA, we will find that each hectare is only paid with RM 1485.20 per year or RM 124.00 of dividend per month. The amount still doesn't enough to uplift the standard of  living of the participants to surpass the "below poverty line", but is very much better than the advance dividend paid to the land owner that participate in the JV with PELITA and private company (Please see HERE for the amount of the Advance Dividends that were paid per hectare/per year and month to the NCR land owners ).

Historically, SALCRA was established on 1st May 1976, as a Government Statutory Body under the Sarawak Land Consolidation and Rehabilitation Authority Ordinance, 1976. The main purpose of establishing SALCRA was to enable and assist the State Government in achieving the objectives of the New Economic Policy (NEP), particularly concerning the eradication of poverty.

In Sarawak, a person is considered as living under the poverty line if his/her income is below RM 765 per month. There are 20,000 participants or landowner that participated with SALCRA oil palm plantation. Based on this figure, each participant will be paid an average of RM 310 dividend per month. Has it surpassed   Malaysian's "under the poverty line" ?

After 34 Years SALCRA Still Fails To Eradicate Poverty Among the Iban

After 34 Years SALCRA Still Failes To Achieve Its Mission: Not surprised because some Ibans have been acting as Running Dog for Taib Mahmud...Anyone look familiar?

The main mission for SALCRA when it was first established in year 1976 was to eradicate poverty especially among the rural Sarawakians. But until now SALCRA still failed to achieve it mission.

The amount of divident declared by SALCRA yesterday was far below the amount which will uplift the income of the participants to the RM 765 level.

I am not writting this article today just to blatantly condemn Jabu or SALCRA. My aim is to tell them that they still need to do a lot in order to uplift the living standard of the participants away from the poverty line. Jabu must also sincere to the participants and stop mislead them. They have to be told until SALCRA can pay them the monthly dividend of RM 765 per month until then SALCRA's is still fail in achieving its mission.

Lesson Learn to The Land Owner So As Not To Enter JV With Pelita and Private Company

Eventhought SALCRA after 34 years of its establishment it  still cannot achieved their mission that is to eradicate poverty but their terms and agreements with land owners are much better than the JV, such as ; SALCRA land lease is only 25 years and beyond that the land owners can decide whether to continue or  to discontinue the lease, and the last point, the land owners are the participants themselves.

But for the JV with Pelita and Private company, the term of agreement is totally differents from SALCRA such as :-  

(1) Land lease for 60 years ( Once the land owner enter into JV, in summary the land has been sold to the company)
(2) Share equity : 60% company, 30% land owner and 10 % Pelita ( The moment the JV is signed, the land owner had already lost 70% of the value of the land.
(3)Management of the estate : Land owners  have  no part to play ( The landowners will have to recieve the same pay with immigrant Indonesian workers )
(3) Divident : RM 150 per hectare per year or RM 12.50 per month

If We Had Already Enter Into JV What Choice  Do We Still Have

 In one of the land dispute between the NCR Landowners and the company, the police had been used by the company in robbing  their lands. Did anyone heard Jabu and Masing ever condemned the police for their brutality against the land owners who were all the Iban?

One of the land owner from Empaling, Sg Tenggang who had enter into the JV with Tetangga Akrab  has one day asked Bukittunggal  whether he still can withdraw from the JV? My answer to him was "None"  as we had already "surrender" or probate our NCR lands to the company.

But this was not the end I told him as we still have hope. And our only hope is through Pakatan Rakyat (PR). Yes, if we want to get back our NCR lands from the company our only hope is with the Pakatan Rakyat. Saudara Baru Bian, the Sarawak PKR's Chief promised that if Pakatan Rakyat successfully wresting  Petra Jaya from Barisan Nasional in the coming state election, the land Commission will be set-up to handle all matters related to NCR lands. And if this is happen, many of the Ibans will become the instant millionaire!

So the owner of the NCR lands if you want to take back your NCR land from the private company, and become instant millionaire, our only hope is through PR therefore we MUST  VOTE FOR PAKATAN RAKYAT.

Mupok Aku

Snowdan Lawan Remind Not to Be Misled the Iban in N25 Balai Ringin

Kampong Empaling, Sri Aman
Wednesday, 23rd June 2010

Congratulations YB but for What constributions?

The task of the Yang Berhormat (YB) other than to bring the development into his constituency, he too also needs to protect the interest of the people in the constituency from any inteference.
YB Snowdan Lawan has been the YB for N25-Balai Ringin for the first term or for the past four (4) years but without significant contributions to the contituency. Eventhough  without the constributions to his  contituency, on 5th June 2010 he was awarded with the Ahli Mangku Negara (AMN) title by the Yang DiPertuan Agong.
But probably the award was for his contribution to the Dayak Music Industry. Snowdan so far has seen more successful doing his job as an Anugerah Musik Dayak (AMD) chairman than doing his task as a YB for N25-Balai Ringin. N25-Balai Ringin which he has been representing for about five (5)  years, is known as one of the most less developed constuencies in  Malaysia.
In 2004, the people of the four longhouses under his constituency namely Rh Bugak Ubah, Rh Jawan Tekuyong, Rh Ngulu Empaling and Rh Stephen Isu, signed an agreement with Tetangga Akrab Pantu to develop their NCR lands. The NCR lands which were mostly planted with the rubber tress were cleared and the timber from these NCR lands were sold by Tetangga Akrab without any compensation to the land owners.
Since the signing of the JV with Tetangga Akrab until it was sold to Kim Loong Resources Sdn. Bhd in late 2009,  the land owners were only paid with the Advance Divident amounting to less than RM 200.00 per hectare per year. The latest presentation of the Advance Divident to the land participants was held on 22nd May 2010 at the company office in Tekuyong.

Hey YB....Stop Mislead the People that had Put you on the YBs Chair.....

The Advance Divident payment was officiated by YB Snowdan Lawan,  where 460 participants recieved Advance Divident totalling RM 118,397, far below the amount of income that they could get if their NCR lands were not cleared for the JV. During the presentation of cheque ceremony, YB Snowdan Lawan advised the participants to bank in or invest their monies in the Amanah Saham Nasional. What a joke.....
Being the participants in the JV  myself , where I surrendered my 2 hectares of land which I enherited from my late father, I did not go to collect the divident as the petrol and subsitence cost to make that journey  will exceed the amount of advanve divedent that I will get. Based on previous experiences with two hectares of land that I have, I was only paid with RM 120 per six months or equivalent to RM 20 per months advance divident. What sort of JV is this? Obviously it was not enough for daily expenses what to say for investment or  for saving in the bank. That two hectares of land which were planted with rubber trees before the JV, with existing rubber price, easily I can make an income of RM 2000 per month.
For what had happened to our land and the indirect loss incurred to us as a result of the JV, I am blamming all of these YBs and the ex-YB below:-

(1) YB Snowdan Lawan
(2) YB Mong Dagang
(3) Ex-YB Jimmy Donald

The above YB should be held responssible for  misled us to sign the JV with Tetangga Akrab and Pelita.

To conclude, I hope Snowdan Lawan will do these two things to the voters in N25-Balai Ringin before the next State Election:-

(1) In the whole of Malaysia, N25-Balai Ringin is the most less developed constituency. BN must bring the development which is capable to uplift the living standard of the people in thev constituency such as the project like "one longhouse with one products". Do not mislead the people with roof zinc, 'anak ayam" and the MRP Grant. Cleaned water, electricity and tar sealed road is a must things for every longhouses, and should not be considered as a development.

(2) The top PRS/BN failure in N25- Balai Ringin, is an Oil Palm JV Project where the NCR lands planted with rubber trees were surrendered to PELITA and Tetangga Akrab/Kim Loong Resources. You must help the land owners to get back their lands from the company. The JV is a failure since it cannot pay the land owners atleast RM 800/month per hectares.

Fulfilling the above two items may not guarantee the PRS/BN to win the seat in the coming state election, but without doing it, you'll be remembered as the most unsuccessfull Iban's YB with Agong's award throughout Sarawak history.

Mupok Aku

AGI IDUP AGI NGELABAN

Iban Dayak NCR Lands Robbed By PELITA and Malay

Monday, 6th July 2009, I went to Land Custody Development Authority or abbreviated as PELITA, to accompany one of my relative to collect his Cash Incentive for his NCR Land that has been developed under JV with Tetangga Akrab Pelita Pantu Sdn. Bhd.

(Most of the NCR Lands that involve in this JV were planted with rubber plantation ....The JV cost NCR Land owners of losing few thousands RM )

The divident was part of the RM 150 per acre per year payment to all the participants as mentioned in the Agreement in which according to him had never been shown to them. The office was located on 8th floor of Satok Building. When I reached at the office, I was surprised to see despite the majority of the NCR land owners being developed by PELITA are Iban dayak, but I only saw few Iban Dayak faces inside. Majority were Malays.

( Majority of the owners of the NCR Lands being developed by PELITA are Iban dayak, but only few are employed by them...Where is 1Malaysia) Based on this observation, I concluded that 1Malaysia is not applicale here, in PELITA ? How can our NCR lands be managed properly and the NCR land owner be fairly paid if they are not managed by Iban dayak themselves? Jabu and Masing, Say something Please! Mupok aku

"Agi Idup Agi Ngelaban"

Barisan Nasional Will Lose Iban Supports If NCR Matter Is Not Rectify-Najib Walk The Talk?

The most important asset for the Iban is land. If sarawak Government under the leadership of Tun Rahman Yaakub and Taib Mahmud did not stop surveying the NCR land, the condition of the longhouses will not be like as the are now, without access road, electricity and clean water.

PM Najib during his Working Visit to Sarawak recently, when talking to the Iban in Lubok Antu had promised that the government will not take away their lands, and further added that their NCR land issue which concerned them most will be tackled promptly.

He also informed the people of Lubok Antu that from the discussion that he had with Tok Uban, he was convinced that the State's model of NCR lands development would ensure a better future for the Iban. But what PM Najib did not understand or wrongly briefed by Tok Uban about the NCR Gaya Baru which is implemented on the NCR lands are :-

1. The JV - 60% Company, 30% land owner and 10% to the state government agency Land Custody and Development Authority (LCDA) .
2. After 60 years leased lapsed it does not guarantee that the land will be returned to NCR land owner.
3. Most of the JVs so far (like in Kanowit, Empaling-Ubah-Tekuyung & Isu ) have not bared any fruit of success what to say managed to chang the life of the participants. For example, I am participating in Empaling-Ubah-Tekuyung & Isu JV, and so far I did not see that the JV is making much money to pay our dividents. Same goes to the JV in Kanowit as I may qoute. In 1996, Iban landowners in Sarawak agreed that their land in the Kanowit District be planted with oil palm. A joint venture between Boustead Plantations (60%), the villagers (30%) and the state government agency Land Custody and Development Authority (LCDA) (10%) was established.Through the agreement, villagers were promised roads that would connect the longhouses in the area, electricity and piped water supply, as well as 60-year land titles for the Native Customary Rights (NCR) landowners. However, it was reported that despite the fruits have been harvested for many years, NCR landowners have been paid no dividends except for an initial meagre advance paid in 1997. None of the other promises has been fulfilled. The natives could no longer bear the abuse and decided to take action to protect their interests. In April a blockade action was staged to stop the company from entering their oil palm plantation. At first it was carried out only by three longhouse communities but later on others followed up to 20 longhouses.
4. The Concept is totally different from FELDA that his father, Late Tun Abdul Razak started - especially in term of the owner of the land being developed, and the duration of land leased.

PM Najib must understand that the NCR land for the Iban is like a tanah wakaf to Malay in Peninsular Malaysia. To understand our problem clearly, the federal government should try to develope the tanah wakaf using the Gaya Baru NCR land development concept in Sarawak.Let see how the Malay in Peninsular will responds...

Iban were stupid for throwing their votes to BN knowingly that BN Sarawak has taken and robbed their lands. But the time will come for sure, if not now , in the coming General Election we will follow the footsteps of our forefather, willing to die for our lands...remember that "Land is our Blood and Life".

To PM Najib and BN, you will see for yourself if you DON'T WALK THE TALK!

Mupok aku

"Agi Idup Agi Ngelaban"