In an effort to bring attention to human rights abuses, the Penan arranged a peaceful rally on UN Human Rights Day. Read more below about these human rights abuses and the Penan demands. Read more at Sarawak Report. Read more about violations against indigenous Penan people and then join the...
The issue of distinguishing which land is Native Customary Right (NCR) land versus land belonging to the state is highly important to Sarawak’s indigenous land owners. Land Minister Tan Sri Masing urges the opposition to keep land survey issues on its list of concerns for the government to address. Read...
Offensive commets made in a recent video expose on land-selling corruption in Malaysian Borneo has provoked reaction from several indigenous community organizations throughout Sarawak. Their solidarity in opposition to the ruling state government could influence the outcomes of the upcoming General Election in Malaysia. Written by Simone Adler, Communications and...
Written by Simone Adler, Communications and Events Intern Read more about Timber Corruption in Sarawak A video investigation released this week by international NGO Global Witness documents the corrupt deal-making that occurs behind-the-scenes in Sarawak between Chief Minister Taib Mahmud’s family and foreign investors buying land for industries such as palm...
The Bruno Manser Fund has reported on developments in the Baram region of Sarawak, East Malaysia. Desperate Penan communities in Long Seridan have set up a blockade against the construction works of the Petronas Gas Pipe Line project, which has been encroaching into their water catchment area at Long Ludin and Long...
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...
In a petition delivered yesterday to the Chief Minister of Sarawak, the Baram people protested the plans to build the Baram mega-dam. The project would flood half the size of Singapore and displace thousands of Baram residents from their ancestral lands, homes, and farms. Thomas Jalong, President of Indigenous Peoples’ Network...
The High Court recently ruled against a joint petition by Penan and Kelabit people in Limbang to save their forest lands from the greed of Chief Minister Taib’s timber and plantation allies, Samling Global and the Hii family. The judge based his ruling on the failure of the natives of...
The Indonesian palm oil firm, PT Suryamas Cipta Perkasa, illegally cleared thousands of hectares of forest in Borneo and is now under investigation from a presidential taskforce for failing to receive mandatory environmental approvals before clearing the land. The investigation is a test to Indonesia’s pledge to better regulate forest clearing...
