PBDS challenges GPS government to reveal true beneficiaries of NCR land titles

Manobo-Matigsarawahan clan receives ancestral land title

THE Manobo-Matigsarawahan tribe of the Onas Lilang Clan in Quezon, Bukidnon, officially received their ancestral land title today, June 30. Attorney Pinky Grace Pareja, commissioner of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) in Northern and Eastern Mindanao, led the awarding of the more than 849 million hectares of land in the Libertad, Minongan and Mahayag areas. She said the clan has been through a lot since they started to claim …

PBDS challenges GPS government to reveal true beneficiaries of NCR land titles

By DayakDaily Team KUCHING, June 30: Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) has thrown down the gauntlet to the Sarawak government, demanding full transparency on the surveying and distribution of Native Customary Rights (NCR) land titles. Its permanent chairman Dr John Brian Anthony said recent remark made by Deputy Premier Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan suggesting that large swaths of NCR lands have been surveyed and issued with titles are mislea…