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This article presents an overview of the Native Customary Rights to forests and its role in protecting the future of native people of Sarawak, Malaysia. The native people have had a long history and strong relationship with their forests. Existing documents and studies have been critically reviewed and analyzed in order to elaborate the Native Customary Rights which are critical to the native people of this region. To have a better understanding on Native Customary Rights, it is important to answer three related questions: (i) Who is a native of Sarawak, (ii) What is ‘custom’, and (iii) What is the nature of ‘rights’? The roles of Native Customary Rights for economic, political or social reasons, operate through informal rules embedded in the natives’ customs and traditions. These rules have never been codified into formal laws because the adat system merely functions to manage the human relations which are tied to culture thus making it difficult to codify the culture into laws. It is evident that there are several issues underlying the development of Native Customary Rights: (i) Native Customary Rights are considered as inferiority to those of the State, (ii) the issue of over-shadowing of traditional laws by the colonial rule and the current statutory laws and, (iii) projects and land schemes involving the Native Land. It is understood that the challenges of promoting Native Customary Rights are daunting task; however, the constitutional laws need to carefully revise to provide a better future for the natives.

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Abstract
 Introduction
 Literature Review
  Historical Perspectives
  Definition of Native Customary Rights to Land
 The Study Area
 Research Method
 Results and Discussions
  Roles of Native Customary Rights to the Natives
  Issues in Developing Native Customary Rights
 Conclusion
 Acknowledgements
 References

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• Julia Nelson [ Faculty of Science and Natural Resources (Forestry Complex), Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jln. UMS, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, 88400, Malaysia ] Corresponding author
• Nur Muhammed [ Faculty of Science and Natural Resources (Forestry Complex), Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jln. UMS, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, 88400, Malaysia ]
• Rosmalina Abdul Rashid [ Faculty of Science and Natural Resources (Forestry Complex), Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jln. UMS, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, 88400, Malaysia ]

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간행물

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• 간행물명

  Journal of Forest and Environmental Science [산림과학연구]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  2288-9744

• eISSN

  2288-9752

• 수록기간

  1981~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 526 DDC 634