twelve were for the JHEOA administrative staff. In fact, none of the houses promised under the original resettlement deal has been realised. Those few now being delivered are being done so under the PPRT scheme (which is also available to other Orang Asli communities as a general policy). To make matters worse, the status of the Orang Asli lands is still that of ‘Tanah Kerajaan’. And the land allocated is a mere fraction of their traditional territories. Today, according to the JHEOA’s Data Kelasifikasi Kampung, the two parts of Kampung Sungei Raba is allotted just 14 hectares, while Kampung Sungei Banun itself has only 7 hectares! As a general rule, we have found that when Orang Asli are required to be resettled or regrouped, they stand to lose from 70 to 80 per cent of their traditional territories. This was the case, for example, in the resettlement for the Sungai Selangor Dam in KKB. Here, one of the two villages involved— Kampung Gerachi—had a total of 404.86 hectares that was approved for gazetting in 1965. However, the actual gazetting was never done. When the dam project was introduced, the Orang Asli of Gerachi were promised 2.4 hectares per family in the new resettlement area. With 37 families, this meant that the new resettlement site would have 88.8 hectares for the community. This represents only 21.9 per cent of their earlier-recognised traditional lands. Even so, there is some dispute as to whether the full 2.4 hectares per family has been duly delivered. Interestingly—or rather, sadly—when in 1999 the Center for Orang Asli Concerns stated that the status of the Orang Asli land in Kampung Gerachi fell under the category ‘approved for gazetting’ and that the approval was given in 1965, the then Director-General of the JHEOA challenged us on this assertion. According to him, citing the department’s 1996 survey (Data Kelasifikasi Kampung 1997) the land in question was never approved for gazetting and that it is instead ‘state forest reserve’ (The Star 27.4.1999). However, when told that the said approval for gazetting was mentioned in the JHEOA’s Data Tanah reports in 1990 and subsequent years, and that there was no inkling how the status could have changed to that of ‘state ORANG ASLI – RIGHTS, PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS 29