National Land Program Dropped Communal Titles

6 February 2013
The Cambodia Daily
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Prime Minister Hun Sen's land-titling scheme announced in June originally included a directive for granting collective property titles to indigenous communities, but this part of the program was scrapped weeks later as it was deemed too costly and time-consuming, documents obtained yesterday show. ... For "indigenous minority groups registered as 'communities' by the Ministry of Interior...the land identification process shall be done in the same working spirit as the one prevailing in the [Ministry of Land Management's ] cadastral department instructions on the implementation of the Royal Government of Cambodia's Order 01," the directive states. "[T]he land shall be registered as collective ownership of the 'community' according to the request of its traditional authorities," it continues. ...

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