英文摘要 |
At the end of June 2009 Ministry of the Interior reviewed applications for direct-controlled municipality status from11 counties and cities. Four applications approved were from Taipei County, Taichung County and Taichung City, Kaohsiung County and Kaohsiung City, and Tainan County and Tainan City. Together with Taipei City, the five direct-controlled municipalities change the existing administrative geography of Taiwan. The most significant feature of counties and cities merging into direct-controlled municipalities is the integration of townships which didn’t belong to each other. Townships like Wulai, Heping, Taoyuan, Maolin and Namaxia get impacted the most because they are aboriginal villages in mountain areas. Direct-controlled municipality gives aborigines the imagination of being city dwellers. But will “city governance” be the ideal model? Or will the forest be aborigines’ ultimate home? These questions involve the most basic concept of human rights-whether collective rights of aborigines are implemented. “Land rights”, “autonomy”, “cultural rights” and so forth are classified as collective human rights, thus many countries consider the above mentioned rights as their constitutional goal. Sections 11 and 12 of article 10 in Additional Articles of the Constitution of the Republic of China (Taiwan) also recognize and respect aboriginal peoples’ will about development. Executive Yuan further passed “Draft Law on the Development of Aboriginal Peoples” in 2003. In 2005 The Indigenous Peoples Basic Law comes into force. Now “Draft Law on Aboriginal Autonomy” is about to be examined by Legislative Yuan. All these aim to achieve collective rights of aboriginal peoples. This paper tries to analyze the problems of aboriginal collective rights which a city could face. Based on the spirit of Athens Charter, this paper argues that the legal system should match the pace of the establishment of “cultural circle” in order to eliminate the image of civilization gap between the city and the mountain. Accordingly, the subjective status of aboriginal culture could be assured in the urban space. |