COMING BACK: Eling looking out during a pathway of Luhat's jelatong. Luhat has cleared a land upon a mountain during a behind of his jelatong for farming.
Sg Asap residents undone over damaged promises moving behind to Bakun to live upon jelatong
SUNNGEI ASAP:After almost fourteen years, a people of Sg Asap Resettlement Scheme have been still clamouring for a fulfillment of promises done to them in lapse for relocating from their ancestral homes to have approach for a Bakun dam.
According to Luhat Tugau, an entrepreneur from Uma Belor, his people had been shortchanged in land allocation, money compensation, housing materials as well as awarding of grant underneath a Bakun Trust Fund.
He pronounced if these damaged promises were not rectified, Sg Asap Resettlement Scheme could not be considered a model resettlement intrigue for alternative dam projects in future.
Uma pronounced a biggest emanate yet to be resolved in a resettlement of his people to Sg Asap was land remuneration for any family.
He disclosed which in 1992 prior to a dam was assembled they were betrothed fifteen hectares per family though prior to they changed from their homes in 1998, a betrothed acreage had shrunk to 7 hectares.
ENTERTAINING GUESTS: Luhat serving barbequed fish to his guests. On his left is his wife Dora.
BOUNTY OF THE WILD: Luhat casting his net in a tide located not far from his jelatong.
"By a time you changed out to a brand new homes, a actual acreage allocated to us was usually three acres per family," Luhat told a Borneo Post during Uma Belor here recently.
His anger as well as frustration was shared by fellow villager, Eling Igang, who until right away refused to accept a land pretension which has been expelled to him.
Eling argued which he would rather not take a three acres of land given to him since it would mean he supposed to be cheated.
"Instead, you want to set up my jelatong (floating house) in a lake as well as explain behind whatever land you have lost," he said.
Currently there about 200 people similar to Luhat as well as Eling, who had gone behind to Bakun to set up jelatong upon a lake as a approach to explain behind their land underneath a water.
"We can set up a jelatong as well as during a same time you can still fish, track as well as farm a land next to a jelatong," they said.
Luhat is a first jelatong owner to spin his floating residence in to a homestay.
On money compensation, Luhat pronounced a volume betrothed to them was still not paid in full.
"In my case, a applicable authorities still owe me during slightest RM50,000 from a volume they have betrothed me," he said.
He believed which most others additionally faced a same complaint though could not voice their views.
Another sore in a resettlement exercise was a defective building materials used to set up their longhouses as well as a designs of a houses.
"We started to repair a homes after staying here for 7 year. On a eighth year, you have to outlay a remuneration money not usual! ly to bu y better materials though additionally to expand as well as re-partition a houses as they were too small."
Touching upon a grant fund, Luhat purported which his eldest son was deprived of a grant due to him from a Bakun Trust Fund to pursue his studies in a technical college in a Peninsular Malaysia.
"His outcome was good enough to consequence him a scholarship. But his application was turned down even after my wife as well as you appealed to a Bakun Trust Fund management," he added.
And what saddened Luhat a most was which usually about a single quarter of a a little 10,000 relocated to Sg Asap essentially stayed behind during their villages as a rest had left a area in search of job opportunities.
"And out of a a little 2,500 left behind, you reckoned which about half of them have changed out to a jelatong as they cannot farm, fish as well as track during Sg Asap," he added. - borneopost
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