ILLEGAL SQUATTER DWELLINGS in SABAH :

Kampung Titingan (Kampung Ice Box) is a populated shanty village cum squatter area in Tawau. Most of its lands belong to the Government of Sabah.

Kampung Titingan is one of the biggest and best-known slums in Tawau where large number of illegal migrants live.

This slum has high levels of crime and gangster activity and also suffered repeated damage by fire over its history.

As one of the more notorious illegal settlements in Tawau is Kampung Titingan (the Icebox), Icebox covered five acres of coastal land which could be developed into a deep sea port. This illegal squatters numbered nearly 10,000 has spilled over to the nearby river which is being polluted ...

Serious fires have at times swept through this settlement, razing large numbers of the houses and causing loss of life.

Illegal squatter dwellings, (a major issue in Tawau) are found along the coast and river mouth. There are about 18 illegal squatters’ areas around Tawau town alone.

Titingan New Town

FROM SLUM TO NEW TAWAU

On 7 March 2010, the then Chief Minister of Sabah, Datuk Seri Musa Aman, declared that the village would be transformed into Bandar Baru Titingan (Titingan New Town)

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