National Land Program Dropped Communal Titles
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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