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As Sarawak’s top officials plan three new hydropower dams, seemingly eager to export more electricity, some Indigenous residents of the Malaysian Bornean state are urging officials to slow down development to properly inform everyone who will be affected. Sarawak Chief Minister Abang Johari Openg has been hinting at plans to build new dams since the […]

The biggest timber firm in Malaysia’s Sarawak state has been able to maintain sustainability certification despite clearing forests for oil palm plantations and skipping steps in informing affected communities, according to a recent report from NGOs focused on forest conservation and Indigenous rights. The report, by the Borneo Project and the Bruno Manser Fund, is […]

MIRI (Nov 10): The proposal by Sarawak Premier Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Abang Johari Tun Openg to build cascading dams in Baram could increase access to electricity and raise the living standard of the Orang Ulu community especially in Upper Baram, said Temenggong Joseph Ngau Lian. “I definitely su

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SISTER Stella Tan was assigned to St Rita’s Convent in Bau in 2012, where she had served until 2019 carrying out a programme in which the church reached out to the bedridden and housebound individuals. She was tasked with undertaking monthly visits to the sick, the bedridden and housebound indivi

UPPER BARAM, Malaysia — When James Nyurang became headman of Tanjong Tepalit village in 2008, he learned from his predecessor — and father — of the terms set by timber giant Samling Group. When the company began cutting trees and leveling roads in Tanjong Tepalit in the 1990s, the headman of this Kenyah Indigenous village […]

A court in the Malaysian state of Sarawak announced May 15 that it will delay the hearing of a defamation suit filed by a logging conglomerate against Indigenous-led environmental rights group SAVE Rivers. In its announcement, officially released the same day the trial was scheduled to begin, the Miri High Court cited the need to […]

Deadline: 12-Nov-22 The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is pleased to launch the Development and Implementation of Landscape Strategic Plan which

After two years tracking the sights, sounds and cultural significance of the forests that form their ancestral homeland, Indigenous communities in Malaysian Borneo have published a 90-page atlas of the Baram River Basin. The documents, known as the Baram Heritage Survey, explore the last intact forest area in Malaysia’s Sarawak state as well as the […]

THREE lecturers from public universities have been selected to take part in a fellowship aimed at promoting scholarly research and cooperation on Malaysian studies.