30,000 land title deeds to be issued for locals in Deep South by 2018

BANGKOK, 11 November 2014 (NNT) – The Department of Lands has indicated it is looking to issue as many as 30,000 land deeds in the three southern border provinces and areas in the vicinity of Budo – Su-ngai Padi National Park to facilitate efforts to quell unrest in the Deep South.

Department director-general Siriphong Hantrakun revealed on Monday that his department was moving quickly to issue land certificates for land plots in the Deep South that already had certificates of utilization or other types of certificates. Department officials will also consider issuing the title deeds for land without any certificates but which has been practically claimed by the local residents.

The drive is meant to grant locals the right to land that they have been living on, and reduce conflicts on interest stemming from land use. Locals will also be able to use title deeds as collateral when taking out loans.

Mr. Siriphong said that over the past 4 months, his department had been able to issue land certificates for 225 plots of land out of the 30,000 target plots. The aim is to finish the issuance within 2018.


-- NNT 2014-11-11

...And thank you very much for all the assistance you rendered in toppling the government so we the Junta could take power...

My wife's family have been waiting 30 years for their papers.

Rich guy inquired last week about buying the land but was told no papers. Not a problem he said, once they sold him the land, he would have them within a month. Disgusting.

about time they start doing the right thing but they have to issue more and do it sooner. thai's thought they could get away with out having to spread the wealth

Wait until the military repossesses all the land that farmers have farmed for years and give it to someone else. Story in Thai visa that the military would confiscate million of rai in Isan and redistribute it. I wonder what the farmers who have been farming the lad for years will say?

Of course this is red territory.

But I bet the rich guys with thousands' of rai will keep theirs.

30,000 land deeds to give to Thai people so as to dilute the Muslim population.

>Mr. Siriphong said that over the past 4 months, his department had been able to issue land certificates for 225 plots of land out of the 30,000 target plots. The aim is to finish the issuance within 2018.< Quote

225 in 4 months, that is 56 a month. 30000 divided by 56=536 months=45 years!!

So a more realistic aim to finish the issuance would be year 2059!!

Much of this land will be owned by the influential in no time........once the papers start flowing to the people.....the cash will start to move around....

Edited November 11, 201411 yr by ChrisY1

Not surprised at all, and will be not a surprise that the local influential will have more wealth available...

(Thai) history repeating.

Isaan will be last re upgrading land paperwork. Always was, always will be (apart from when Thaksin was in charge).

30,000 land deeds to give to Thai people so as to dilute the Muslim population.

I fear this will exacerbate tensions unless those land deeds are primarily given to Muslims. In a better world, "land reform" in this region would return it to its historical and rightful owners. There was a huge land grab by the Thai government in the 1960s which helped fuel the current conflict. The population is still 80% Muslim, however.

That percentage is increasing, due in part to the violence, which is pushing Buddhists out of the region. (So there is little danger of diluting the Muslim population-- "only" displacing them.) But administrators and civil officials in the region are overwhelmingly Buddhist, which again helps fuel animosity.

...the government supported the resettlement of Buddhists from other provinces, in particular during the 1960s, providing them with land in the deep south and economic support (ICG, 8 December 2009, p.5, EWC, August 2006, p.9).

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Resistance and separatist activities that have continued in the region for more than a century can be seen as a response to the government’s continued failure to politically accommodate the Malay majority and to uphold justice and the rule of law (ICG, 22 June 2009, p.10).

http://www.refworld.org/pdfid/4ec4d5fd2.pdf

Thaksin Shinawatra can also be blamed for dissolving conflict-management commissions like the Southern Border Provinces Administrative

Centre (SBPAC), which served for some years to hold tensions at bay.

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