New Logging Licences For Cronies Whilst Natives Get Kicked Off …
WEBJul 29, 2024 · Millions of hectares have been handed over for logging and plantations in Sarawak to companies owned by the ‘Big Six’ timber tycoons and linked to their political cronies in the GPS government. Yet, when it comes to making a show about restoring Sarawak’s devastated forests in order that the same billionaire companies and their political ...
EU Must Classify Sarawak Timber As “High Risk” Under New Rules …
WEB10 hours ago · The EU is due to enforce the so-called EUDR regulations (European Union Deforestation-Free Products) next year.Under the EUDR the Commission will designate countries or parts thereof as under the categories of “low, standard, or high risk” by December 30, 2024, based on the likelihood of being compatible with the regulations.. Any product from a High Risk country would require EU member ...
Final Appeal Court Slams Sarawak’s Land Grab Tactics And Hints …
WEBMay 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 ...
How Come Sarawak’s JPN Continues To Block Indigenous ID Rights?
WEBJul 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 ...
Malaysia’s Rainforest Threat Is Focused On Sarawak
WEBJun 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 ...
Vital Message From Global Top Botanists To Sarawak’s ‘Million …
WEBJan 26, 2021 · The researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew) and Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) are urging a ‘right tree in the right place’ approach to make sure restoring forests benefits people and the planet.
Talkback – SarawakReport
WEBAug 2, 2024 · The fall of the massive Sarawak flag, ‘Ibu Pertiwi’, into the Sarawak River last Monday was not anticipated in the standard operating procedures (SOP) of the Kuching North City Commission (DBKU), said Datuk Abdul Rahman Junaidi. The state deputy minister of utility and telecommunication explained that …
Fifty Years Of Native Abuse In Sarawak Must End
WEB5 Feb 2023. BM. 翻译. Once again conflict has arisen in the Baram region of Sarawak, owing to aggressive logging unwanted by the native community. The events form part of a familiar pattern involving the railroading of native rights, exploitation and intimidation by those in positions of power. At the start of last week, the Penan community ...
Why Are Sarawakians’ Rights To Local Democracy Being Hijacked?
WEBMay 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 ...
More Missing Millions, More Broken Promises To Sarawak …
WEBMar 18, 2021 · A fund created to compensate natives for the forcible logging of their lands has spent less than 1% on the stated beneficiaries, but instead poured millions into investments through asset management companies controlled by Governor Taib Mahmud. These are the findings of research conducted by Sarawak Report into official audits available online.