KANOWIT: Community leaders have been urged to cooperate with the Land and Survey Department to ensure consensus is achieved among every member in their community before applying for perimeter survey.
The department’s Sibu chief Peggy Ronin Edin said the consensus included land boundaries and ownership claim.
“This is other than giving your full support to the department when we carry out the survey work,” she told about 50 community leaders present at ‘Native Customary Right (NCR) Land New Initiative’ dialogue session at Kanowit MP service centre here on Saturday.
The session was also held to explain the standard traverse geodimeter (STG) control for perimeter survey purpose in Sungai Poi here.
Kanowit MP Datuk Aaron Ago Dagang, acting Kanowit District officer Ibrahim Kipli, Kanowit police chief DSP Ismail Mahmud and Kanowit Information Department head Wan Mohd Zuki Wan Ismail were among those present. Peggy later explained on the use of STG control, legal documents for land ownership claim, overlapping claims and trespassing of land border.
Meanwhile not begin given prior notices before perimeter survey works started is one of the issues raised by community leaders at the session.
Some even claimed the department had failed to give them detailed explanations on the matter.
A few community leaders also disclosed that their followers did not want their land to be developed through a joint venture scheme like with Land Custody and Development Authority (LCDA).
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