Peter Kallang, an important indigenous leader and the SAVE Sarawak Rivers network Chairman, was denied entry into an IHA pre-congress workshop. Read more below from the Bruno Manser Fonds and SAVE Rivers. Learn more about corruption in Borneo The International Hydropower Assocation’s World Congress to be held in Kuching,...
30,000 to 50,000 indigenous people to pay the price for Chief Minister Taib Mahmud’s excessive dam plans in Malaysian Borneo. Read more from Bruno Manser Fonds Read more about the Borneo Project’s Campaign to Stop the Dams in Sarawak Also: View a high resolution version of the Sarawak dams map A...
The Penan, who have lived in the rainforest of Borneo for centuries, fight a daily battle against the logging companies who want to raze their homes to the ground. Read more below. Read more from Daily Mail UK Learn more about land rights issues in Borneo In the damp, lush...
Sarawak Report has received an explosive dossier from sources close to Taib, detailing a powerful conspiracy to depose the Chief Minister at the next PBB Party Convention, due in May. The high-level defectors will maintain a pretence of unity during the coming federal election, expected in March, but have collected...
(GENEVA/ BERN, SWITZERLAND) Twenty MPs file motion to freeze Malaysian potentate’s assets held by Swiss banks; Attorney General urged to declare the family of Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud a criminal organization. Twenty Swiss MPs have filed a motion in parliament that calls for an immediate freeze of assets held by Swiss...
Practical information is often necessary for communities resorting to the court process (Civil Litigation) to reclaim Native Customary Rights (NCR) Lands. The below guidebook is SACCESS’s first attempt to better inform and prepare Native Customary Rights (NCR) landowners in Sarawak who want to use the Malaysian civil courts to seek declaration...
With great joy, we can announce to you that the 12-day Australia tour by an indigenous delegation from Sarawak’s SAVE Rivers network will be coming to a victorious end. Roy Adair, the CEO of Hydro Tasmania, a state-owned Australian hydropower operator and consultant, said in a meeting with the Sarawak...
Sarawak Report has learned that campaigners can claim victory after statements yesterday by Hydro Tasmania boss, Roy Adair, pledging that the company is withdrawing from its guiding role over Taib’s mega-dam projects. Adair, who had till recently enthused over Hydro Tasmania’s partnership with Sarawak Energy’s program of up to 50...
BINTULU– Two Kenyah longhouses of Uma Sambob and Rumah Nyalang Tahe, Long Koyan have erected a blockade against an oil palm company, Ekran Plantations Sdn. Bhd., seven kilometers from the junction to the Sungai Asap Resettlement Scheme. The Kenyahs are claiming that their native customary rights (NCR) lands located...
VIDEO Hydro Tasmania – out of Sarawak Indigenous leaders from the Malaysian state of Sarawak joined today with Australian Greens Senators Christine Milne and Lee Rhiannon to launch a national campaign calling on Hydro Tasmania to pull their support out of controversial dam proposals in Sarawak that will displace tens...
