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In Session November 1996
Dewan Question And Answer (1) FEASIBILITY STUDY/REPORTS BY SAMA CONSORTIUM (2) MEASURES TO OVERCOME PROBLEMS OF SEA-WATER INTRUSION (3) PROBLEMS AT DURIN, SUNGAI ASSAN, SUNGAI MAAW FERRY POINTS (4) CONSTRUCTION OF BRIDGES IN SIBU (6) PUBLICATION OF NEWSPAPERS IN IBAN LANGUAGE (7) LAND GAZETTED UNDER SECTIONS 47 & 48 (9) AMENDMENT OF RELEVANT SECTIONS IN SARAWAK LAND CODE (10) GUNS SURRENDERED TO GOVERNMENT
Speeches /Debates
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Encik Wong Ho Leng asked the Chief Minister and Minister for Resource Planning: Many landowners have complained that compensation to land acquired by the State Government has been unfair, unjust and inadequate. In view of the gross injustices to the landowners because of the Section 47 and Section 48 acquisition, is the Minister prepared to amend the relevant sections of the Sarawak Land Code. If not, why not. Ketua Menteri dan Menteri Perancangan Sumber (Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri (Dr) Haji Abdul Taib bin Mahmud): The complain does not represents the feelings of the people of Sarawak as a whole. It may be the DAP's view. The system of land acquisition and compensation is designed not only for the benefits of individual landowners but also for the interest of the country and the people as a whole. As we all know, land acquisition did not become controversial in Sarawak until lately when development financed and undertaken by the state set an upward trend in land price. On the one hand, the government realises that while it is not fair to deprive landowners from benefitting from the acquisition of the land price as a result of this development, it is also not fair to pass the burden of spiralling land price specially speculative land hike to be borne by the general tax payers. After all it is the tax payers' money that is originally used to develop the infrastructure and other amenities which in turn generates the appreciation of land price benefitting such development. Land acquisition policy therefore is to minimise the possibility of
government paying for the land, price hike which results from its own development
efforts. Hence the need to freeze the price under Section 47 at the time
of acquisition. In view of this, essentially just rational for the working
of Sections 47 and 48 and our policy to make development efforts as widespread
and speedily as possible. I do not propose to change the present provisions
of the law. Other models which may depart from this have not been shown
to be very widely adopted by any country in the world.
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