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Penduduk tuntut pendirian Pakatan tentang tanah perkuburan

Andrew Ong Sep 27, 09 8:29pm

Selama lima tahun, penduduk Taman Saujana Puchong telah berkempen membantah rancangan Majlis Perbandaran Subang Jaya (MPSJ) untuk menjadi sebahagian daripada hutan simpan Ayer Hitam sebagai kawasan tanah perkuburan.

Ketika itu, penduduk terbabit mendapat sokongan daripada parti pembangkang DAP, PKR dan PAS.

Kini ketiga-tiga parti berkenaan merupakan sebahagian daripada kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat yang mentadbir negeri Selangor sejak setahun setengah yang lalu.

Sewaktu sesi dialog dengan pegawai kerajaan negeri pada 22 Jun lalu, penduduk dijanjikan oleh pengerusi jawatankuasa setinggan, pengurusan bangunan dan perumahan, Iskandar Abdul Samad bahawa penyelesaiannya akan dicapai dalam tempoh tiga bulan.

Dan kini, tempoh tiga bulan itu yang berakhir pada 22 September telah berlalu tanpa sebarang maklumat dari pihak berkuasa.

Sehubungan itu, jawatankuasa sementara membantah projek tanah berkuburan itu, menulis surat kepada Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim untuk mendapatkan penjelasan mengenainya.

"Mereka bersama kami sebelum menjadi kerajaan. Kami berharap mereka cepat membuat keputusan mengenai perkara itu. Kami mahu tinggal di sini dalam keadaan aman dan tidak perlu bimbang mengenai tanah perkuburan tersebut," kata jurucakapnya Lau Seng You (kiri).

Cadangan untuk membina tanah perkuburan awam seluas 55 hektar di situ, termasuk tempat membakar mayat - yang dianggap terbesar di negara ini - akan membabitkan sebahagian besar kawasan hutan simpan yang kini dimiliki Universiti Pertanian Malaysia (UPM) dan kini digunakan untuk tujuan penyelidikan.

Mahu diselesai di luar mahkamah

Menurut penduduk, hutan simpan seluas 3,000 hektar itu adalah antara segelintir kawasan hijau yang masih tinggal di negara ini. Ia juga menjadi tempatan tinggal masyarakat Orang Asli.

Kira-kira 1,500 penduduk di situ bimbang mengenai kejatuhan nilai hartanah serta pencemaran alam sekitar ekoran cadangan pembinaan tempat pembakaran di situ.

Wakil jawatankuasa sementara penduduk itu telah memfailkan semakan kehakiman pada 2006 tetapi kes berkenaan telah beberapa kali ditangguhkan.

Hari ini penduduk telah membawa pihak media ke pinggir kawasan hutan simpan tersebut untuk bergambar bersama kain rentang yang dibuat pada 2007, dengan kandungannya disarankan oleh Iskandar, yang juga seorang ahli politik PAS.

Lau berkata, walaupun perkara itu telah dibawa ke mahkamah dan tarikh untuk mendengarnya belum ditetapkan, tetapi pihaknya berharap ianya dapat diselesaikan di luar mahkamah. Berita asal

Pembetulan:

"Hari ini penduduk telah membawa pihak media ke pinggir kawasan hutan simpan tersebut untuk bergambar bersama kain rentang yang dibuat pada 2007, dengan kandungannya disarankan oleh Iskandar, yang juga seorang ahli politik PAS."

Ungkapan "Kekalkan Hutan Simpanan. Mahu Jalan Bukan Kubur" sebenarnya hasil kreativiti Haji Yaakob Sapari, Exco Negeri Selangor sekarang semasa PKR masih Pembangkang di Selangor.

Sidang Akhbar : Status "PENDENGARAN BANTAHAN BAGI DRAF RANCANGAN TEMPATAN MAJLIS PERBANDARAN SUBANG JAYA", (ISU KUBUR AYER HITAM)

Kepada Rakan-Rakan Media,

Kami, Signature Campaign Teamwork (SCT), sebagai wakil penduduk dalam melindungi Hutan Simpanan Ayer Hitam (HSAH) daripada dijadikan Tapak perkuburan, akan mengadakan satu Sidang Akhbar pada:

27hb September 2009 (Hari Ahad) Masa : 10.00 pagi

Di Restoran AS-Subuh di Saujana Puchong (peta dilampirkan)

berkenaan dengan Status dan Perkembangan "PENDENGARAN BANTAHAN BAGI DRAF RANCANGAN TEMPATAN MAJLIS PERBANDARAN SUBANG JAYA", (ISU KUBUR AYER HITAM) anjuran Kerajaan Selangor yang akan diadakan pada 22 Jun 2009.

Rakan-rakan Media dijemput hadir.

Sekiranya ada apa-apa pertanyaan, sila hubungi Encik Chan Chee Wai (012-9188876), Encik Chin Jet Fu (012-3072566), Lee Wai Hong (016-3268738), Ng Chee Kwong (012-2353280) untuk maklumat lanjutan sidang media SCT.

Untuk maklumat berkenaan SCT, sila kunjungi:

http://sct.saujanapuchong.googlepages.com/

http://sct-saujanapuchong.blogspot.com

Terima Kasih atas sokongan padu Rakan-rakan media.

Yang Benar,

Ng Chee Kwong

Decision on cemetery in Puchong to be known in 3 months

Streets * NST Online

2009/06/23
Sheila Sri Priya

SUBANG JAYA: Residents living around the Ayer Hitam Forest Reserve, in Puchong, will know in three months whether they will have a cemetery in their backyard.

State executive councillor Iskandar Abdul Samad told the residents at a public hearing on the Subang Jaya Local Draft Plan that a decision would be made by then on whether to gazette 22.2ha of the land in the forest reserve as a cemetery.

Residents living in Bandar Bukit Puchong, Gateway Puchong, Lestari Puchong, Mutiara Indah and Saujana Puchong objected to the plans to have a cemetery in the vicinity of their housing areas.

About 1,500 residents had submitted their objections against the plan to have the cemetery. The issue was first raised in 2004.

"We will inform the residents once the decision has been made. I think the cemetery issue needs to be discussed further at the state level," said Iskandar.

Decision on cemetery project in three months

The Star Online - Metro

Tuesday June 23, 2009

THE Selangor state government has promised to make a decision on the cemetery project at the Ayer Hitam Forest Reserve in less than three months.

“This issue is beyond the state planning committee and will be discussed by the Selangor Economic Action Council (MTES).

“A special session will be held in July by the state executive councillors before we make a decision,” state housing, building management and squatters committee chairman Iskandar Abdul Samad said at the Subang Jaya Draft Local Plan hearing held at the Subang Jaya Municipal Council (MPSJ) complex yesterday.

A group of 20 residents, on behalf of the Signature Campaign Teamwork (SCT, which comprises representatives from Bandar Bukit Puchong, Taman Saujana Puchong, Gateway Puchong, Lestari Puchong and Mutiara Indah), submitted a memorandum to state tourism, consumer affairs and environment chairman Elizabeth Wong and MPSJ president Datuk Adnan Md Ikshan to reinstate their strong objection against the cemetery project.

“This cemetery, if built, will be located right next to our homes. We have been fighting for the abortion of this project since April 2004. We have asked the government to move the project to a place far away from residential areas.

“This is also to ensure that the Ayer Hitam Forest Reserve remains as it is to preserve the environment,” SCT member Ng Chee Kwong said.

He added that the court case pertaining to this issue had been put on hold indefinitely for the Selangor government to make a decision.

Jemputan ke Sidang Akhbar SCT - Sebagai Saksi "Pendengaran Bantahan Draf Rancangan Tempatan MPSJ (Isu Kubur Ayer Hitam)" antara SCT dan MPSJ

Kepada Rakan-Rakan Media,

Kami, Signature Campaign Teamwork (SCT), sebagai wakil penduduk dalam melindungi Hutan Simpanan Ayer Hitam (HSAH) daripada dijadikan Tapak perkuburan, menjemput Rakan-rakan Media untuk menghadiri satu Sidang Akhbar sebagai Saksi "Pendengaran Bantahan Draf Rancangan Tempatan MPSJ (Isu Kubur Ayer Hitam)" antara MPSJ (Majlis Perbandaran Subang Jaya) dan SCT pada

22hb June 2009 (Hari Isnin) Masa : 10.30 pagi

Bertempat di : Majlis Perbandaran Subang Jaya (MPSJ)

Persiaran Perpaduan USJ 5,

47610 Subang Jaya

Tel: 03-8026 3131, Fax: 03-5637 6585

Rakan-rakan Media dijemput hadir.

Sekiranya ada apa-apa pertanyaan, sila hubungi Encik Chan Chee Wai (012-9188876), Encik Chin Jet Fu (012-3072566), Lee Wai Hong (016-3268738), Ng Chee Kwong (012-235 3280) untuk maklumat lanjutan.

Untuk maklumat berkenaan SCT, sila kunjungi:

http://sct.saujanapuchong.googlepages.com/

http://sct-saujanapuchong.blogspot.com

Terima Kasih atas sokongan padu Rakan-rakan media.

Yang Benar,

Ng Chee Kwong

The Star: Cemetery issue a hot topic at draft plan hearing

Cemetery issue a hot topic at draft plan hearing

By JADE CHAN

A PROPOSED cemetery at the Ayer Hitam Forest Reserve in Puchong, Selangor, was one of the hot issues raised during the first public hearing for the draft local plan for Subang Jaya held at the Subang Jaya Municipal Council (MPSJ) complex yesterday.

According to state housing, building management and squatters committee chairman Iskandar Abdul Samad, who chaired the hearing, finding a suitable site for a new cemetery is a big headache because no one wants to have one within the vicinity of his or her neighbourhood.

“The proposal is for a 55-acre cemetery that will cater to all races and religions,” he said.

“We received a lot of objections against the cemetery.

“Those that were filed by individuals were heard today (yesterday), while those filed by a group of more than 1,500 individuals will be heard at the next hearing,” Iskandar said.

Iskandar said 2,139 objections focusing on 192 issues were submitted on the draft local plan.

The issues brought up during yesterday’s hearing included discrepancies in zoning and the duration allowed for the public to register their objections.

“Some individuals and companies raised the discrepancies as their land already had a commercial status or that their buildings had been in existence for a long time, but the plan stated that they were located in residential zones,” Iskandar said.

On the LRT extension project, he said it was mentioned but not discussed in detail as it was still awaiting the approval of the state government.

“Syarikat Prasarana Negara Bhd (SPNB) presented a briefing to the state executive council on the proposed route last month. They’re supposed to review our feedback and present the project in detail to the state executive council,” Iskandar said.

He said the state government expected potential problems on the LRT extension project, and that the related issues had to be looked into carefully as there were many things to be resolved.

State local government, studies and research committee chairman Ronnie Liu noted that among the pressing issues raised was the need for more secondary schools and land for places of worship for non-Muslims.

“We will look into the demands and see how we can resolve them,” he said.

Liu said the authorities would also look into the suggestion of having the draft local plans in electronic format or soft copies so that they could be accessed via the Internet.

Iskandar said the issues that were straightforward could be dealt with at the hearing, but the more complicated ones had to be referred to the state planning committee.

State tourism, consumer affairs and environment chairman Elizabeth Wong was also present at the hearing.

Yesterday’s hearing received a lukewarm response as only a handful of individuals and representatives of companies and associations turned up. The next hearing, scheduled for June 22, is expected to draw a bigger turnout from the residents’ groups.

Sidang Akhbar berkenaan "PENDENGARAN BANTAHAN BAGI DRAF RANCANGAN TEMPATAN MAJLIS PERBANDARAN SUBANG JAYA", (ISU KUBUR AYER HITAM)

Kepada Rakan-Rakan Media,

Kami, Signature Campaign Teamwork (SCT), sebagai wakil penduduk dalam melindungi Hutan Simpanan Ayer Hitam (HSAH) daripada dijadikan Tapak perkuburan, akan mengadakan satu Sidang Akhbar pada:

15hb June 2009 (Hari Isnin) Masa : 10.00 pagi

Di Restoran AS-Subuh di Saujana Puchong (peta dilampirkan)

berkenaan dengan "PENDENGARAN BANTAHAN BAGI DRAF RANCANGAN TEMPATAN MAJLIS PERBANDARAN SUBANG JAYA", (ISU KUBUR AYER HITAM) yang akan diadakan pada 22 Jun 2009.

Rakan-rakan Media dijemput hadir.

Dilampirkan adalah Surat MPSJ berkenaan pendengaran di atas dan peta ke Saujana Puchong.

Sekiranya ada apa-apa pertanyaan, sila hubungi Encik Chan Chee Wai (012-9188876), Encik Chin Jet Fu (012-3072566), Lee Wai Hong (016-3268738) untuk maklumat lanjutan sidang media SCT.

Untuk maklumat berkenaan SCT, sila kunjungi:

http://sct.saujanapuchong.googlepages.com/

http://sct-saujanapuchong.blogspot.com

Terima Kasih atas sokongan padu Rakan-rakan media.

Yang Benar,

Ng Chee Kwong