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Samling is one of the biggest bully boys in the Sarawak logging industry. However, when faced with pushback or a threat to their dubious profits they have proved remarkably thin skinned and ready to cry 'victim' against the poor folk who want them off their lands.......

When it comes to ripping out forests, dodging environmental restrictions and heavy handed tactics towards indigenous protests, the global timber giant, Samling, leads the field. However, when it comes to the subtler arts of communication, specifically disinformation known as 'Black PR', the Sarawak loggers appear out of their depth.....

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The Penan indigenous people of Sarawak, Malaysia, on Borneo, fighting to keep the trees on their ancestral lands safe from logging, ask the government for help.

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Malaysia Indigenous communities ‘hopeful’ on logging dispute © Provided by Al Jazeera The Kenyah Jamok community of Long Tungan in Upper Baram say they have not been consulted on matters affecting their land rights [Courtesy of The Borneo Project] Indigenous peoples from the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo are hopeful their objections to logging by Samling Group – covering an area of forest roughly equivalent to the size of Luxembourg – are finally being taken se...