Defend kampung sembulan in Sabah

Sabah : Defend your village Sembulan
By Omar Hassan
hassanomar@bharian.com.my 17oct09


KOTA KINABALU: Even located in the middle of the development of cities, villages in the Malay Kampung Sembulan Lama, New Sembulan and Sembulan East (Village Sembulan) is maintained and stand firm stated that its inhabitants.

Although aware of the more rapid development since the sandwich 15 years ago, they did not intend to leave your beloved village. It is there raised in their life and seek to connect.

Hence, they will continue to defend the Malay village Kampung Sembulan as a single in the city.

That the children expressed teak village concerned. Acting Chairman of the Board for the Village Sembulan, Piasin Hamid, 50, and Chairman of the General Affairs City Umno Youth, Bahr Razha Chuprat, Kampung Sembulan must be maintained as a Malay village areas.

They realize the area between 24 to 28 hectares (over village land) and 16 hectares (the water village) became sought-after real estate company. For a long time, the company made various efforts to get the area for commercial purposes.

However, more than 2,000 people inhabit the 234 houses in the village is not too easy to evaluate the price of land they owned. After various parties, especially the real estate developer company trying to persuade owners approve the proposed transfer of land to enable the area since taken over tens of years, now they are determined to defend the village.

Hamid said, they are not rejected or does not know the rate of development progress, but many companies persuaded people to sell land.

"We are not willing to villages disappeared because it was the only Malay village in the city.

"We are willing, if the Federal Government or state restructuring of villages, particularly on home water is mostly rented to people who find sustenance in the city, including illegal immigrants.

"We are often labeled by people outside do not know because hygiene garbage fill the house above water. However, they do not know the real problem here. Water here can not move fast into the sea because only one channel available to small drains that flow to sea, "he said.

He said, building new commercial real estate company completed a village near the water as it seems to signal that landowners consider the future of villages that eventually must be released to the developer company.

"We do not know how the company can get the land developed as commercial areas because they are not land people. Beside the building is the village on 16 hectares of water area.

"Besides, there is the 1.4 hectares of reserves the government has built houses on the water. We seek land for so long again but no answer," he said.

Hamid claims, land in Kampung Sembulan divided into several types of ownership of Lease City (Town Lease or TL) and Country Lease (CL) respectively have the age limit ownership, in addition to requiring payment of land premium compared to the Native Title has no age limit .

He said the villagers have no land of TL and CL trying to pay land premium before the lease period ended, but was surprised when the land value set premiums too expensive to reach tens of thousands of dollars.

"We do not have that much money to pay the land premium is too expensive. Is there a hidden agenda as if we are forced to move when holding land ends and we can not afford to pay the land premium is too expensive," reported

He said the issue of retention has been discussed with Village Sembulan Kota Kinabalu City Hall (DBKK) and Members of Legislative Assembly (Afternoon) Tanjung Aru, Edward Yong Oui Fah and Umno Division Chief Putatan (Kampung Sembulan is in Umno Division Putatan), Datuk Yahya Hussin .

Hamid said, John submits to the wisdom Sembulan Village residents to submit proposals or plans regarding the redevelopment of the village.

"He allows this village remain as Malay villages but ask us to prepare development plans. We are preparing and God-willing, will be ready soon," he said.

Meanwhile, Bahr Razha, said Umno Youth took a serious problem because it is concerned about the future of the Malay community in the city.