Demolition threat over Orang Asli chapel in Malacca

The Alor Gajah Municipal Council has systematic which a chapel located in a Machap Umboo Orang Asli allotment in Malacca be demolished upon grounds which it is an bootleg structure.

Last Saturday, chapel caretaker Puanheerby Siam was served with a dispersion notice dated Sept twenty by a council's office office building department, stating a office office building was in defilement of Section 70 of a Street, Drainage as well as Buildings Act 1974.

That sold territory regulates a building a whole of new buildings as well as Pastor Joseph Boon Chai, who oversees a chapel, pronounced no specific reason was since by a management for a action.

According to him, officials from a Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (Jakim), Malacca Islamic Religious Council (Maim) as well as Department of Orang Asli Affairs informed Puanheerby dual months ago which a chapel was bootleg since it did not have accede from a local council.

"But why have been Jakim as well as Maim concerned in this case? We have been puzzled. What is a main motive at a back of this?" Joseph pronounced when contacted today.

He argued tha! t a ar ea has been categorised as an Orang Asli settlement, therefore a residents have every right to erect buildings within a area.

There have been about twenty households in this Temuan settlement, which has been occupied by a Orang Asli since a days of a Japanese Occupation.

The Muslims there have a surau

The building a whole of a 20ft by 30ft chapel was completed in Mar this year to serve eleven Christian family groups from a Machap Umboo allotment as well as dual more Orang Asli villages nearby.

It is underneath a pastoral caring of Jus Chapel based in Kamping Orang Asli Jus in Selandar, Malacca.! Jus Cha pel is a registered church with a National Evangelical Christian Fellowship (NECF) Malaysia, underneath a mission name of Jus Chapel Tribal Ministry.

To date, Jus Chapel has built 5 chapels in various Orang Asli settlements.

Joseph additionally pronounced dual of a 5 chapels had faced a same problem before, though after they demanded which a management issues official letters detailing a reasons for a demolition, it kept silent as well as eventually forsaken a matter.

The encampment has only dual Muslims, though a management had built a suraufor them, he said.

Joseph suggested which a make a difference has been raised with a NECF as well as a authorised panel has been set up to plunge into a issue.

"Depending upon a situation, you devise to challenge a dispersion sequence in court," he added.

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