Abang Jo Should Put His Money Where His Mouth Is Over Penan Bio-Park
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Bringing Jobs To Murum? KL Estate Fires Natives To Hire Immigrants Instead!
At the end of last week Sarawak Report sent an emailed request for comment to the information desk of the major public company Puncak Niaga Bhd in Kuala Lumpur. The title of the request is self-explanatory: “Demonstrations by Sacked Penan…
Malaysia’s Deputy Environment Minister Still Profits From Logging Native Lands – With Special Exemptions Also?
Among the present spate of disputed incursions into native land areas currently underway in Sarawak, perhaps the most brazen is happening in Belaga, thanks to two companies identified as logging in areas previously already abandoned by Pusaka KTS in the face…
More Log Jams – Time To Investigate And Fine Negligent Timber Companies!
The damage and suffering caused by log jams in Sarawak rivers is monumental and yet totally preventable because they are caused by up river logging that has not been properly managed or safely cleared. No one is unaware of the…
New Logging Licences For Cronies Whilst Natives Get Kicked Off Their Farms?
As the GPS government seeks to make a show of its eco-credentials (with an eye to making billions out of carbon trading) it comes as no surprise that, once again, it is native communities who are taking the brunt of…
Time For Transparency In Sarawak
Over recent days Sarawakians have been informed, via newspaper announcements, that the state will be winding down logging operations (there will be no more ‘timber politics’ as GPS leader, Abang Jo, put it); that the state government projects that a billion…
How Can They Be Poor Since They Have Hiluxes? – Abang Jo’s Marie Antoinette Moment!
When Marie Antoinette was legendarily accused of asking why the bread marchers in Paris did not simply “eat cake?” it became the symbol of the ensuing revolution. Her ignorant observation was seen to epitomise the total lack of understanding by…
How Come Sarawak’s JPN Continues To Block Indigenous ID Rights?
One of the recurring issues of discrimination against Sarawak’s native people’s to be raised at the Dayak Forum in Miri last weekend was the obstinate withholding by the state authorities of the rights of recognition owed to native people of…
Dayak Forum Spawns United Dayak Declaration Project
Last weekends’s Dayak Community Conference in Miri brought together leaders from across the Sarawak and Sabah interior communities, who are now working on a slate of demands to bring justice to the abandoned indigenous populations. The key demands were Local…
Kuwaiti Supreme Court Upholds Sentences Against 1MDB Conspirators
News last week of the return of another US $100 million to Malaysia, thanks to the prosecution of illegal assets seized by the US Department of Justice, has over-shadowed the prospect of far larger sums due from Kuwait. Both hoards…
