Sentul Murni Claim Kg Chubadak are "Setinggan"

Saturday August 11, 2012
Sentul Murni has land title to develop Kampung Chubadak Tambahan
By CHOONG MEK ZHIN
mekzhin@thestar.com.my

AMIDST the land claims of villagers in Kampung Chubadak Tambahan, developer Sentul Murni Sdn Bhd has declared that they are the rightful owners of the 20.23ha of land meant for the Bandar Sentul Utama township.

The company was responding to a story in StarMetro, “Se

ttlers unhappy with constant development in village” that was published on Aug 1.

“We have the title for the land. If any of the land rights claims were true, we would not have been given a land title to develop the area,” said Sentul Murni Sdn Bhd project director Mohd Zainudin Badarudin.

He said the township was approved in 1993 under the previous developer.

Parent company Melati Ehsan Group took over Sentul Murni in 2006 through a Special Purpose Vehicle process after the project was abandoned for 12 years.

“At that time, the four-block Sentul Utama Condominium project was only partially completed, leaving 648 buyers stranded.

“We stepped in to revive and finish the project,” said Zainudin.

“There were two other court cases not mentioned by the villagers.

“One was in 1996 where it was decided that the land was no longer considered a Malay Reserve Land.

“In the second case, it was decided that the land ownership transfer to Sentul Murni was legal,” he said.

He added that based on the most recent census done by the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) in the area in 2006, there were only 419 families living in the area earmarked for the project.

Each family was eligible for a unit at the low-cost flats and relocation would be done in phases.

“We have relocated 143 families who were directly affected by the Sentul Utama project. We hope to relocate the rest as we develop the land,” he said.

A look at the original township plan from 1993 revealed that future plans for Bandar Sentul Utama will include People’s Public Housing, a school, a commercial area and a few residential high-rise buildings.

One of the residential project in the proposed township is Bayu Sentul, which will be developed by Arus Embun Sdn Bhd.

Sentul Murni and Arus Embun are subsidiaries of Melati Ehsan Group.

He added that the company had lodged many police reports about the various disturbances and property damage they have faced over the years carrying out building work for the township project

Threat need to reckon!

Malaysia

‘Christian’ Indonesia a big threat to Malaysia, says Muslim academic

By Debra Chong

August 06, 2012

Tee has long styled himself a champion of Islam.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 6 — A Christian-majority Indonesia could be a threat to a small Muslim nation like Malaysia, controversial academic Ridhuan Tee Abdullah has said as growing Christian proselytisation in the Southeast Asian giant fuels fears of Islam’s followers leaving the religion.

The Chinese-Muslim convert was weighing in on a recent furore in the world’s most populous Muslim nation that is experiencing a growing wave of converts to Christianity — as many as two million people a year — that had sparked a recent campaign to reverse the religious trend called “Save Maryam”.

Indonesia used to be 90 per cent Muslim, he said, but was now recording only 200 million Muslims out of a total population of 240 million.

“Mengikut jangkaan, jika sesuatu tidak dilakukan, pada 2035, Indonesia akan menjadi negara majoriti Kristian (According to estimates, if nothing is done, Indonesia will become a Christian-majority country by 2035).

“Jika perkara ini berlaku, ini satu ancaman besar kepada negara Islam kecil seperti Malaysia (If nothing is done, this will be a huge threat to a small Muslim nation like Malaysia),” said the Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia lecturer, in his column “Buka Minda (Open Mind)” published today by Malay daily Sinar Harian.

Tee, who is a member of the Islamic Consultative Council and Wasatiyyah panel in the Prime Minister’s Department, has long styled himself a champion of Islam. 

He noted that many Muslim Indonesians converted to Christianity due to a variety of factors including the high poverty rate there that caused some to “sell out” their faith and the lack of laws to protect Muslims against Christian proselytisation in contrast to Malaysia.

But the columnist, who also writes for Umno-owned Malay broadsheet Utusan Malaysia, said the Christianisation movement was on the upswing here.

Tee appeared to suggest that Christians were the “enemy” of Muslims, citing a passage from the Quran, Surah Al-Anfal.

He said Christians had great financial power around the world and the Malay archipelago was now their main target after they had “failed” in their missionary attempts in the West.

He warned that Christian evangelical movements could attempt to employ similar tactics here as they did in Indonesia and called on Muslim Malaysians to “save” their brethren in the archipelago.

“Ingatlah wahai saudaraku, orang Indonesia itu juga adalah saudara kita (Remember my brothers, the Indonesians are our brethren too).

“Selamat mereka, selamatlah kita (If they are safe, we too are safe),” he said.

In multicultural Malaysia, non-Muslims are barred by the law from proselytising their faiths to Muslims even as they are constitutionally guaranteed the freedom to practise their religions.

However, several right-wing religious groups have accused churches here of converting Muslims to Christianity and turning them into apostates, which is viewed as a serious offence and which has strained Christian-Muslim ties here over the past few years.

 

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Developer in Kg Chubadak Strike, But The Kg folks are Ready With New Method of Defences

http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2012/8/1/central/11759122&sec=central

Wednesday August 1, 2012

Settlers unhappy with constant development in village

By CHOONG MEK ZHIN
mekzhin@thestar.com.my
Photo by YAP CHEE HONG

THE third generation settlers of Kampung Chubadak Tambahan in Sentul are shocked to find developer of residential project Bayu Sentul — Arus Embun Sdn Bhd — clearing a small portion of the land as well as hoarding up the 1.21ha site.
Residents’ Association chairman Ramlee Ahmad said there were uniformed and plainclothes police in the area and they were unable to do much to stop them.
He highlighted Kuala Lumpur City Hall’s (DBKL) failure to put up any notices to get residents’ objection to the high-rise residential development as well as the developer’s failure to put up any information board at the site.
Ramlee said the Appeals Court had made a decision in 2000 that stated their rights to the land where about 200 residents still live and grow fruit trees.

 

Work in progress: Workers putting up hoarding around the site where the high-rise residential Bayu Sentul will be built.

“In the decision, they had referred to the most recent documentation about ownership of the land from 1962 made by the Selangor Executive Committee who granted us ownership rights while in 1974, the Chief Minister had said we would be given a land grant,” he said.
Ramlee also said their ancestors were given the land in 1916 when Federation of Malay States issued a gazette to make a 202.34 ha plot of the land a Malay Reserve area.
“Sometime between 1930 and 1955, two companies took large portions of the land for mining.
“This land was revoked years later and the then Kuala Lumpur district officer made a layout plan for the former mining land to be divided among the settlers,” he explained.
Ramlee said they had the land grant for the original area, before it was mined.
“We have been applying for a new grant since 1985 but it was rejected for reasons unknown to us.
“Development has taken place in the area. The village is now only about 20.23ha in size,” he said.
The last development project took place a few years ago.
“Since then, a few high-rise residential developments have been completed.
“Though the name of the developer for this new project is different than the one that built the others, the address points to the same parent company,” Ramlee said.
He added that residents had lodged many police reports and complaints to DBKL as well as submitted a memorandum to the Federal Government.
Arus Embun Sdn Bhd is a member of the Melati Ehsan Group which was reported in 2006 to have taken over Sentul Murni Sdn Bhd, the developer of Bandar Sentul Utama project.
Sentul Murni Sdn Bhd project director Mohd Zainuddin Badarudin said Melati Ehsan was seen as the ‘white knight’ which came in to complete the abandoned project.
“When we stepped in, the project was at phase two.
“It involved the construction of the Sentul Utama Condominium which has already been completed,” he said.
He added that Bayu Sentul was part of the overall project and would take up 1.21ha of land.
“There are more plans for the area including a People’s Housing Project, condominiums and a commercial area.
“But, we will need to address the matter of squatters still living on the land before we can proceed,” said Mohd Zainuddin.