Customary land bill could be disaster for PNG: NGO

Updated May 13, 2009 10:36:34

The Papua New Guinea parliament introduced the Land Groups Incorporation and Customary Land Registration Bill in March this year to get landowners to 'voluntarily' register and develop their land, but an environment group claims the new land registration bill could cause people to lose rights to their land after it is registered.

Presenter: Firmin Nanol
Speaker: Damien Ase, Executive Director of PNG's Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights; Babani Maraga, Spokesman for Kirakira Land Development Authority; Dr Lawrence Kalinoe, Secretaryof PNG's Constitutional Review and Law Reform Commission