Indian poor poorer that Sabah and Sarawak natives and orang asli. 6,000 hectres Sarawak natives land. No land social safety net for Indians.

6,000 hecters @ about 10 acres of land each for 2,500 natives from 19 long houses in the out skirts of Sibu alone. What more in the rest of Sabah, Sarawak and Peninsula Malaysia. The orang asli in Perak were granted 10 acres of land each within one month of DAP, PKR and PAS coming to power in Perak.
19,900 orang asli will be given 50,563.51 hectres of land for agriculture and to build homes (NST 5/12/09 page 2).
20,000 orang asli families to get agriculture land. More than two thirds of orang asli families will be given agriculture land up to 2.4 hectres planted with rubber or palm oil. Under the orang asli land policy each head of the family will get between 0.8 and 2.4 hectres on a permanent grant. A total of 20,000 families will also be given 450 sq meters to 0.1 hectre each for housing. The agriculture land is to be situated near their settlements will be non transferable for 15 years. After that only to another orang asli. This land cannot be leased, pawned, mortgaged or relinquished says the Rural and Regional development minister Tan Sri Muhd Taib the land will be cultivated by government agencies, private companies and co-operatives before it is handed over to the orang asli it takes 5 to 7 years for rubber and palm oil to nature before they could move in. Agreed at Cabinet meeting two weeks ago. Total land area – 49,000 hectres. To date the Ministry through the orang asli welfare department, government agencies like Risda and Felcra have planted some 24,000 hectres of rubber and plam oil. Of this 10,700 hectres have matured benefitting about 10,000 orang asli families adding to their income by RM 400.00 to RM 600.00 a month. More than 27,800 orang asli families are living in 870 orang asli settlements in the country (NST 19/11/08 page 8).
Even the economically powerful Chinese have 200 over Chinese New Villages running into hundreds and thousands of acres nationwide.
But the Indians have almost zero villages in Malaysia. The odd Kg. Indian, Kg. Bengali, Kg. Muthiah are all of squatter status as they were never granted land titles like the 5,000 Malay squatters turned landowners of 151.57 hectres in (MM 13/5/10 page 7). Kg. Baru turn millionaires with this their land today.
The fact remains that the Indians in real terms are poorer than even the natives of Sabah and Sarawak and the orang asli.
But then again this is UMNOs’ One Malay-sia and PKR, DAP and PAS multi – racialism!
Karunai Nithi @ Compassionate Justice