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Indigenous Penan tribespeople have set up road blocks to stop a timber company from logging on land in Malaysian Borneo that they consider part of their ancestral heritage. The Penan erected their first blockade at Long Ajeng in the Upper Baram region of Sarawak state on Sept. 9, and their second in Long Pakan in […]
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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.
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 seriously after the country’s timber certification board ordered dispute mediation a year after they...
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 seriously after the country’s timber certification board ordered dispute mediation a year after they first complained about the plan. The Malaysian Timber Certification Council (MTCC) took action following complaints by 36 Indigenous Penan, Kenyah and Jamok communities from Sarawak’s Upper Limbang and Baram regions about alleged flaws in its certificati...