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Selangor is progressing on gazetting more than 50% of its 74 indigenous villages, though authorities face complications from land zoning disputes, particularly where settlements overlap with Malay reserved lands.
A Sabah assemblyman has proposed a constitutional amendment to grant Sabah's Native Court equal status to the Syariah and Civil Courts, arguing that customary justice institutions deserve recognition under the Malaysia Agreement 1963.
Tengku Ampuan Pahang Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah has offered temporary resettlement on her personal land in Kuala Wau to Orang Asli families displaced by a land dispute in Maran, Pahang.
Indigenous Orang Asli residents of Kampung Sungai Cot have expressed renewed optimism after receiving direct assurances from Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim that his government will intervene in a protracted land dispute threatening their community.