Indigenous communities in Tatau, Sarawak are calling on global palm oil buyers to investigate a plantation, where they say the company has cleared their customary forests without consent and is now threatening the river system they depend on. Nine Iban longhouse communities along the Sungai Sap river say large areas...
Iban people from six villages in the Ulu Kelawit Tatau gathered in front of the Mukah police station for two days to peacefully protest the arrest of 11 community members who have been detained since October 25th....
Early this morning, frustrated Iban landowners allegedly torched 16 tractors that were worth several million ringgits belonging to Tabung Haji after police failed to look into their complaints of encroachment. The Iban landowners took their case to the Human Rights Commission Malaysia (Suhakam) in a public hearing in Serian two...
