Native Customary Rights Land: Indigenous Perspectives
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https://doi.org/10.33736/jbk.7261.2024Keywords:
land, adat, rights, territorial domain, SarawakAbstract
Indigenous perspectives on natives’ customary rights to land are often marginalised in the development discourse in Sarawak. This paper argues that it is important for us to understand how indigenous communities claim customary rights to their territorial domain based on their adat that existed even before the Brooke administration in the mid-19th century. The state’s policies concerning land tenure and resource use systems in Sarawak have dramatically changed since the 100-year Brooke administration, followed by the British colonisation, and the eventual independence of Sarawak within Malaysia in 1963. These changes have directly impacted the different indigenous communities’ customary land tenure systems in Sarawak.
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