PUBLISHED: September 17, 2023, at 19:12.
Chiang Mai: A group of racial Karen people in the Doi Saket city petitioned the government on Sunday to end a forest land management plan because it is detrimental to their way of life.
During Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin’s visit to the North on Sunday, cultural people from Ban Huay Pha Tuen and Yom Ban Doi from the tambon Pa Miang area of the Doni Saket district submitted their request. & nbsp,
The group requests that the National Land Policy Board’s ( NLPB ) policy on forest land management be repealed, along with a cabinet resolution from August 3, 2010, that fully recognizes the rights of ethnic groups in Thailand, as well as the Prime Ministers’ Office regulation on land and natural resources management.
The villagers run the risk of losing the property that has been given to them by the NLBP in order to support themselves, according to the group.
Even before the latest forest land control system was developed, the villagers have lived on forest lands for generations.
” Under the NLBP’s maxims of forest land management, the rights of individuals to live in a forest area are just not recognized.” We are requesting a group property title deed for this reason, the group stated.
Tribal villagers will be able to carry on living and preserving their cultural way of life thanks to community land deeds.
According to the group, the NLBP’s so-called Green Economy policy, which would increase the number of trees in forest areas by 40 % in particular, needs to be abandoned because it benefits investors more than the local villagers.
The group also demanded an apology from the government for enacting for difficult policies that violated tribal peoples’ human rights.