Announcement of Blog Opening

Dear Readers,

I am just learning to do this blogging stuff. I have done some trial blog accounts in blogspot before but suddenly and without reason my account was terminated so I was grossly disappointed with the site.

Since google has this blogger facility and there seems to be an invitation, so I just try this out.

Also the contents of my future reports will be mostly stories from the Native Courts of Penampang open hearings which should be interesting to all natives of Sabah.

I will not mention names of plaintiffs and defendants but will refer to them with initials or labels because it is the case problems and how the native court judges (or WKAN and KAN) solves these people's made problems and the processes involved that is more interesting and may help all our local populations in future.

The structure of the Native Courts is as follows:

Head:  District Officer
Also serves as the first point of appeal if there is disatisfaction from the ruling by the Native Court.

Chief of Native Court Judge: Ketua Anak Negeri (KAN)
Members under him are called Wakil Ketua Anak Negeri (WKAN)
Also every Village Chief or Ketua Kampongs are considered members of the native court systems and they are usually called to attend the court hearings if the people involved comes from his village

At the time of writing, all members of the Native Court system are appointed through the politically elected members of the State Legislative Assembly or YBs as they are locally referred to and hence the Native Court is under the state administration as provided for in the Native Courts Ordinance that was introduced by the British Colonial Government.

That is all for now, if there are factual errors in my interpretation, you are all welcomed to comment.

Ozziewozzie, Penampang
Note: the 2007 is the year I first opened a youtube account and the name have now got stucked.