A private company has donated one rai of land worth around 100 million baht to the local Chao Lay community on Koh Lipe in Satun.
The donation was made as authorities and owners weigh up a dispute between the private sector and Chao Lay communities on the island.
Langu district chief Peerapat Ngencharoen, who is also acting chief of Muang district office, yesterday said that land owned by Narongsak Pattamapaneewong was formerly the subject of a dispute with the Chao Lay people in Usen community, and Mr Narongsak won a Supreme Court case on the matter years ago.
But Mr Narongsak recently decided to donate Nor Sor 3 land with a church as a community title deed to the community in Muang district’s tambon Koh Sarai, which is home to 12 households, on the condition the land cannot be sold.
Mr Narongsak decided to donate the land as he used to earn a living from it…
