Sarawak’s Lip Service Only Eco-policies – SarawakReport
Aug 27, 2024 · Local people are being thrown off their agricultural land in order to allegedly expand national parks while, at the same time, genuine forest pledged for conservation is still being left open to timber raiders. As ever, the Sarawak State Government is at the service of the logging tycoons whilst playing only lip service to the desperate current battle to …
New Logging Licences For Cronies Whilst Natives Get Kicked Off …
Jul 29, 2024 · 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 the pain and hardship.
2024 – SarawakReport
Nov 7, 2024 · The ITTO (International Tropical Timber Organisation) and Sarawak Forestry Department have turned a deaf ear to complaints by NGOs and native communities about illegitimate logging in the conservation zone – the Penan Peace Park in Baram – funded by international donations and supposedly sponsored by both bodies.
Time For Transparency In Sarawak – SarawakReport
Jul 27, 2024 · The Sarawak premier practices government by news announcement. Yet, self-serving announcements without proper transparency, access to the full facts or public scrutiny represent the stuff of totalitarian rule. Time and again the reality on the ground has proven to be the opposite of those newspaper claims. If the state wants clean investment and to join the clean energy race then it needs to ...
Final Appeal Court Slams Sarawak’s Land Grab Tactics And Hints …
May 22, 2023 · After years, even decades, hundreds of Sarawak Land Grab cases are still wending their way through the courts, long after the native lands in question have been plundered and destroyed. The glaring issue in these David and Goliath battles is that the concessions themselves were almost without exception the product of corrupt cronyism and nepotism under the rule of the former chief minister and ...
Malaysia’s Rainforest Threat Is Focused On Sarawak
Jun 2, 2024 · According to the latest report by the Malaysian environmental group RimbaWatch, the vast majority of remaining rainforest under grave threat from timber concessions is based in Sarawak – where the ruling party are pushing harder than ever for autonomy to pursue their cash ambitions.. The report released last week identifies that of 3.2 million hectares of forest threatened with obliteration ...
Our Heartfelt Thanks To Malaysian Supporters – SarawakReport
6 days ago · Sarawak Report has now paid what the ultimate Malaysian court demanded on behalf of the Terengganu Sultanah. The Sultanah had pleaded she was defamed over being misidentified for making an introduction actually performed by her royal sister in law, namely recommending in 2008 the then budding financier, Jho Low, as an advisor to the Chairman of the Terengganu Investment Authority (TIA) (the ...
How Come Sarawak’s JPN Continues To Block Indigenous ID Rights?
Jul 8, 2024 · 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 the interior.. Many of these communities have lived in the state since time immemorial (longer than many represented in the state government) and yet ...
Fifty Years Of Native Abuse In Sarawak Must End
Feb 5, 2023 · The latest Penan blockade against loggers in the Baram area, and the way it has been handled, highlights a host of injustices facing the native people of Malaysia which this new reforming government must start to tackle. They must begin by according indigenous peoples their most basic rights of identity, something that plundering state …
Why Are Sarawakians’ Rights To Local Democracy Being Hijacked?
May 11, 2024 · Once again this week, the online Radio Free Sarawak has had reason to cover abuses of what ought to be the democratic appointment of village headmen in rural Sarawak.. The pattern has become increasingly familiar in recent months, if complaints to the show are anything to go by, in that a growing number of elected headmen have found themselves arbitrarily replaced, for example by the decision ...