The Orang Asli group forms a minority community in Peninsular Malaysia, whose livelihood mostly depends on their land and the surrounding area. Dispute over customary land rights of Orang Asli has been continual in Malaysia although Malaysian Courts, in several cases, have upheld the Common Law rights of Orang Asli to their customary lands. This poses a challenge to some Orang Asli communities and State Governments. Based on focus group discussion, profiling survey, and library research methods, this paper analyses the land rights of Orang Asli in Peninsular Malaysia, by placing focus on Orang Asli in Kampung Parit Gong, Jelebu, Negeri Sembilan. The findings indicate that the Kampung Parit Gong Orang Asli community has been strictly adhering to the customs of ‘adat perpatih’ since yesteryears, and that they highly value the land, both through usage of land and by inheritance. Several important concerns were raised by the Orang Asli in Kampung Parit Gong, particularly on the security over their rights on the said customary land and the guarantee of their future generations’ socio-economic wellbeing. Having said that, this paper proposes several legal and administrative measures to not only address the uprising issues, but also to ascertain that the rights of Orang Asli residing in Peninsular Malaysia are secured.

COVID-19 pandemic affects variations of countries’ national strategies, policies, and plans of actions while at the same time these arrangements afflicting their residents by implementing a variety of health and legal measures to flatten the COVID-19 curve. This stretches from prohibiting overseas travel, forbidding interstate travel, encouraging work from home closings of some public areas, compulsory wearing of marks and hand sanitisers, quarantine, social distancing, and a mixture of various actions. Malaysia in implementing its laws and regulations on COVID-19 is empowered mainly by the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988 (Act 342) together with its newly imposed COVID-19 regulations and the old Police Act 1967 (Act 344). The movement control order coupled with the social distancing measures has appeared to be the effective actions in flattening the COVID-19 curve. The study attempts to map COVID-19 as a national security matter for the benefit of public health and national security concurrently within the scope and limits of Malaysia’s public health measures and prevention of diseases, in the protection of security and public order. This paper then proposed for COVID-19 and other future health crises or pandemics as national security issues. This in turn legitimising the health, security, or emergency measures, either developing on the existing laws or moving towards a more practical form of law in line with future unforeseeable threat and intervention. The Australian and Italian laws relating to COVID-19 are analysed to provide better insight and suggest solutions enabling countries facing a future emergency or crisis issues.   Received: 4 March 2021 / Accepted: 6 May 2021 / Published: 8 July 2021

The Orang Asli group forms a minority community in Peninsular Malaysia, whose livelihood mostly depends on their land and the surrounding area. Dispute over customary land rights of Orang Asli has been continual in Malaysia although Malaysian Courts, in several cases, have upheld the Common Law rights of Orang Asli to their customary lands. This poses a challenge to some Orang Asli communities and State Governments. Based on focus group discussion, profiling survey, and library research methods, this paper analyses the land rights of Orang Asli in Peninsular Malaysia, by placing focus on Orang Asli in Kampung Parit Gong, Jelebu, Negeri Sembilan. The findings indicate that the Kampung Parit Gong Orang Asli community has been strictly adhering to the customs of ‘adat perpatih’ since yesteryears, and that they highly value the land, both through usage of land and by inheritance. Several important concerns were raised by the Orang Asli in Kampung Parit Gong, particularly on the security over their rights on the said customary land and the guarantee of their future generationsâ€%9

Malaysia merupakan negara pesisir bagi Selat Melaka dan Singapura selain Indonesia dan Singapura. Sebelum zaman penjajahan Barat, sempadan maritim yang tetap tidak wujud merentasi Selat Melaka dan Singapura. Perjanjian British-Belanda 1824 telah membahagikan Selat Melaka dan Singapura kepada dua pengaruh, yang kemudiannya menjadi wilayah-wilayah bagi negara-negara Indonesia, Malaysia dan Singapura. Di sebelah timur pula, menerusi Perjanjian 1878 dan Perjanjian 1903, Sabah yang asalnya milik Kesultanan Sulu telah menjadi jajahan British dan akhirnya merdeka dalam Malaysia pada tahun 1963. Sebagai sebuah negara berdaulat, Malaysia telah menandatangani beberapa perjanjian dengan negara-negara jirannya dalam menetapkan sempadan wilayah dan maritimnya. Namun, terdapat beberapa segmen kawasan maritim milik Malaysia yang sempadan maritimnya belum ditetapkan dengan jelas. Kekurangan ini boleh menimbulkan kesulitan dalam menetapkan bidang kuasa dalam kawasan maritim milik Malaysia. Dengan penularan wabak Covid-19, bertambah pentinglah batas maritim ini ditetapkan bagi mengekang kemasukan secara haram pendatang asing ke Malaysia selain menjalankan penguatkuasaan yang lebih tegas. Artikel ini membuat kesimpulan bahawa Malaysia harus terus bekerja lebih rapat dengan tetangga-tetangganya agar masalah perbatasan maritim dapat diselesaikan dengan tuntas.

This paper analyses the position of the full age and mentally competent patient in exercising his or her right of autonomy to refuse treatment by giving an advance will or directive to the doctors in the lights of the United States and Canada laws. Even though there is a presumption that Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; a treatment for cardiac arrest has to be given to the patient. The decision as to whether to withhold or withdraw such a treatment lies with health practitioners, and the court will only intervene on certain situations in the United States. However, in Canada, neither consent nor a court order in lieu is required for a medical doctor to issue a non-resuscitation direction where, in his or her judgment, the patient is in an irreversible vegetative state.