Malaysia telah mengambil langkah untuk melindungi hak masyarakat pribumi ketika ia menuju ke arah kemajuan untuk menjadi negara berpendapatan tinggi menjelang 2020.
"Ke arah memastikan hak Orang Asli dan lain-lain masyarakat pribumi kekal didukung dan dilindungi, kerajaan berterusan mengambil langkah memperluas keperluan makanan, perlindungan, kesihatan, pendidikan dan pekerjaan mereka," katanya.
Beliau berkata demikian dalam kenyataan mengenai Item Agenda 66: Hak Masyarakat Pribumi pada Jawatankuasa Ketiga Sesi ke-68 Perhimpunan Agung PBB di New York pada Isnin.
Raja Reza berkata Malaysia terus komited untuk memperkukuh keberkesanan pihak berkuasa berkaitan seperti Jabatan Pembangunan Orang Asli selain pegawai negeri dan daerah yang bertanggungjawab kepada kebajikan dan kemajuan masyarakat ini.
Lebih ramai tok batin dan ketua kampung Orang Asli akan dihantar mengerjakan ibadah haji menerusi Program Khas Haji tajaan Yayasan 1Malaysia Development Berhad (Yayasan 1MDB) pada masa akan datang.
Sebanyak 800 orang terdiri daripada imam, ketua kampung dan pengerusi jawatankuasa kemajuan dan keselamatan kampung (JKKK) menunaikan haji menerusi bawah program itu tahun ini. Kumpulan kedua dijangka tiba Sabtu ini.
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The Orang Asli community in the Peninsula will not stand to benefit from any affirmative action plans for the Bumiputeras unless concrete policies are put in place to first address their basic demands.
In fact, Orang Asli activist Tijah Yok Chopil said some 180,000 Orang Asli, from about 852 villages, may very well "fall victim" to lucrative incentives given out through the latest Bumiputera Economic Empowerment Plan.
"The government says it is giving out millions of ringgit in tenders and contracts to the Bumiputera developers. Part of these contracts will involve developing land for commercial purposes.
"But when it comes to land development projects, the Orang Asli often become the victim as the status of their native customary land [tanah adat] is not recognised by the government," said Tijah, who founded the Village Network of Peninsular Malaysia Orang Asli as a non-governmental organisation to champion causes affecting her community.
"We are demanding for recognition of our customary lands because it forms the basis of Orang Asli's survival as a community," said Tijah when met by theantdaily.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had last month unveiled the Bumiputera Economic Empowerment Plan, reportedly worth almost RM30 billion, which aims to reduce inequality of income not only between Bumiputeras and non-Bumiputeras, but also among Bumiputeras themselves.
"I cannot see how the Orang Asli can benefit from these projects, tenders and contracts when the government can't even adequately resolve our most basic demands," said Tijah...
The plight of the Orang Asli community will once again be brought to global attention at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Universal Periodic Review, scheduled to be held at its headquarters in Geneva from Oct 21 to Nov 1...
The Village Network recommendations are recorded in one out of 28 stakeholders’ reports submitted to the UNHRC on Malaysia and endorsed by a coalition of 54 Malaysian NGOs that came together as Comango. A separate detailed report was also submitted to the UNHRC on behalf of the Society for Threatened Peoples.
Among others, it stated that the Orang Asli face severe marginalisation and discrimination in socio-economic opportunities, as well as displacement and eviction from their ancestral lands. It also stated that 76.9 % of the Orang Asli are living under the poverty line while 35.2 % live in extreme poverty, a sad fact considering the millions in allocations which have been channelled through the country's annual budget.
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