dfs

1. A few local owners seems to have problems with refugees renting
homes in an apartment in Damansara. They have many issues,
from theft, cultural behaviour and cleanliness.
Recently the automatic door has been damaged and it is suspected
that some refugees are suspected. The Management Committee
decided to give eviction notices to all the refugees staying there
within a month to move out.
There are also two different ethnic groups of refugees in that
apartment and they seem to blame each other for the problems.
What and how will you resolve the issue?
GROUP 1

2. ● Identify the key problems and solutions faced by the community or NGO
Key Problems;
- Eviction - is this lawful?
- Racism; assume theft
- Lack of access to lawful employment
- Cleanliness; are the packed into apartments, lack economic means?
- “Culture behaviour”; stigmatisation, 2 groups - bias, power relationship
Solution;
- Management Committee to increase surveillance; install CCTV
- Speak to residents - aim to inform and educate
- Connect them with other communities and NGOs such as SUHAKAM
- Perform assessment on how many people per apartment - what they need -
jobs / basic needs

3. ● What homework you need to do before engaging in the
issue?
- We need to identify the characteristics of the refugees and the
relationship with other residents
- What is their cultural behaviour; education?
- How is the interaction of this group of refugee?
- Refugees first to get their point of view
- Ask lawyer & SUHAKAM: Is it lawful to discriminate on renters?
- Who’s the ally? Owners
- What is the Malaysian renter/residents’ thoughts on these
refugees?
- Seek external problems? At work, etc?

4. ● What kind of work you can do to build trust and empower them ?
- Provide lawyers - legal aid, legal knowledge
- Listen to them, count on their ideas as well.
- Do more programs together - to get go know each other more
- Town hall discussion
- Survey what type of employment they have - work with organisation
that provides them work
- Provide information, funds
- Teach them basic social media, to share their experiences and stories
- bring awareness on digital securities so that if they are targeted they
know what to do.

5. A statement has been released by the IGP that some NGOs are
planning to organise a People’s Tribunal on the police.
The statement also believes that these NGOs are sponsored by
Foreign parties to destabilize country.
A few NGO leaders names have also been implicated and have
been called by police.
There is a general sense of fear.
GROUP 2

6. Subjective conditions:Are NGOs strong? After intimidation, coalition becomes
smaller when people withdraw.
Government distract the attention on police abuse of power - lead the public to
debate foreign funds instead the original problem.

7. ● Identify the key problems and solutions faced by the community or NGO
Key Problems:
- Intimidation from police to discourage people from getting involved. Threats
against family members, enterprises. Why?
- To prevent the truths such as misconduct and abuse of power from police to be
revealed. Why?
- Police refuse to be hold accountable and taken disciplinary action.
- Receiving funds from foreign funds? Why?
- Might receive intimidation from government. Why?
- Authoritarian government, mindset of people, bribe the police
Solutions:
- Empower people with their legal rights
- Have a robust mechanism to check on police
- Cast the votes wisely, to form two-party system to check and balance within the
government

8. ● What homework you need to do before engaging in the issue?
- Identify the stakeholders (lawyers, CSOs, embassy, international organisations - United
Nation etc)
- Raise awareness among people (from understanding the problem and give solutions)
- Narrow down your target audience
- Mapping (area, audience, stakeholders)
- Collaborating with other NGOs that work with the same issues
● What kind of work you can do to build trust and empower them?
- Let the victims and main stakeholders to make their own choices, DO NOT MAKE
DECISION ON THEIR BEHALF
- Discuss and analyse the strategy together with allies and victims
- Amplify the voices of good police, those police who are the victims of police abuse,
make their voices heard
- Listen to victims and share their stories if given consent

9. One Orang asli community are moving more upstream because the
land is being cleared by Logging company who seem to have some
big connections with Individuals linked to royalty. Police seems to
be siding with the developer. There is also a rumour that the land is
being cleared for durian plantations and investment from China.
GROUP 3

10. ● Identify the key problems and solutions faced by the community or NGO
Key problems:
1. Problem: Displacement and land ownership - they lose the connection they had for
generations with the land (assuming they have been living there), fruit trees,
ancestral graves… The ownership of their land. They have no title on their land.
The problem is, the authorities are not recognising their rights over the land that
they are living. They would be constantly displaced.
2. Power imbalance - everything is stacked against them. They are vulnerable to
exploitation. Due to a lack of recourse to justice, and also financial means to see
their action through.
3. Sense of helplessness - they are not aware of their rights, and powerless to
assert/enforce their rights.
Solution:
1. Ascertain their rights to land.Identify the delineation of land - community mapping
of land ownership - speaking with the Batin/Ketua Penghulu. How the
displacement directly affects them.
2. Ascertain whether EIA has been done on the project/activity.
3. facilitate their access to assert their rights. STOP deforestation.
4. Petition to raise awareness of issue and galvanise support from Malaysians

11. ● What homework you need to do before engaging in the issue?
1. Researching on their land rights
2. Getting to know the affected community’s grievances
3. Access to international platforms - getting more attention and allies
● What kind of work you can do to build trust and empower them ?
1. Network with other NGOs - to galvanise more support on the issue.
2. Conduct workshops for OAs to know their rights (empowerment).