{"id":5746,"date":"2009-10-01T14:18:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T06:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=5746"},"modified":"2009-10-01T14:18:33","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T06:18:33","slug":"how-did-these-people-get-pr-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2009\/10\/01\/how-did-these-people-get-pr-status\/","title":{"rendered":"How did these people get PR status?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you read Star Metro section today, there’s the news about houses built by people<\/a><\/strong> along the Jalan Duta. The main points from the article:<\/p>\n

– land belongs to Malaysians who rent it out to these people. The families spent money to built their houses.<\/p>\n

– the people who rent the land are Indonesian with PR status.<\/p>\n

– from the phot0s, \u00a0can see cars, astro dish ouside the houses.<\/p>\n

– the families’ financial status doesn’t allow for loans from banks to buy properties.<\/p>\n

Question: If the financial capability is not strong, can the person still get PR? Don’t they need to have a proper job, and pass various strict conditions imposed by the government? Is it that easy to get PR status for certain people, because I read in papers that professionals \u00a0and people who lived all their lives in Malaysia also can’t get PR? \u00a0Should these people be offered PPR flats since they are considered low-income Malaysians? What action can be taken against the land owner, who probably misled the tenants? Will DBKL take any action or things would be “adjusted”?<\/p>\n

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A row of shacks along Jalan Duta near Kampung Segambut Dalam in Kuala Lumpur has become an eyesore for those who come into the city through the North-South Highway.<\/p>\n

The 14 houses are built eight months ago by\u00a0Indonesians with permanent resident (PR) status on a land that belongs to a Malaysian<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Resident Jaafar Sawar, 42, said they were renting the land from a Malaysian owner.<\/p>\n

\"\"Permanent:<\/strong> Some of the 14 shacks that have been built at the site.<\/div>\n

The rent amounts to RM200 for each house.<\/p>\n

Jaafar, who has been in Malaysia since 1985, said\u00a0he spent RM40,000 building his three-room, zink-roofed house<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am looking after this place. Every month I collect the RM200 rental from the others and pass it to the owner,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He added that the land had been lying idle.<\/p>\n

The residents, however, did not obtain any building permits from the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is on private land, so what we do on it is supposed to be up to us<\/span><\/strong>,\u201d Jaafar said.<\/p>\n

However, four months ago, they were issued notices of demolition by the DBKL for building illegal structures.<\/p>\n

\"\"Unfinished:<\/strong> A backlane in between the houses.<\/div>\n

\u201cThe landowner went to sort things out with the DBKL and, so far, nothing has happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cDBKL officers have visited several times to take pictures of the place but nothing else has been done,\u201d he said<\/p>\n

Before this, the residents were living at a different plot of land in the area.<\/p>\n

Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng said the Indonesian colony in the Segambut area was huge and the new colony was not the only one.<\/p>\n

Most of the homes are built on private land owned by Malaysians and then rented out to Indonesians with PR status.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey hold red identification cards so it is difficult for them to buy a house of their own. They are not big income earners, and therefore can\u2019t afford to buy homes<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking at their financial status, banks will not give them loans and that is why they have resorted to building their houses like this,\u201d Lim said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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