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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sarawak’s ‘Advanced Technology’ Talk Is Already Out Of Date
WEBSep 1, 2024 · The utility company PacifiCorps — a subsidiary of Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Energy — built the dams in the early to mid-1900s, without tribal consent, to generate electricity for parts of the growing West. But the dams severely disrupted the lifecycle of the salmon, blocking the fish from accessing their historic spawning grounds.
Sarawak’s Lip Service Only Eco-policies – SarawakReport
WEBAug 27, 2024 · Sarawak’s Lip Service Only Eco-policies. Let’s take a look at how Sarawak’s ‘green policies’ are working out in practice compared to what is being boasted of in public pronouncements. In Baram, one of the few relatively unspoiled remaining areas of the state, native communities have fought for years with the backing of global NGOs to ...
Growing Tangle That The Istana Would Do Well To Step Aside From
WEBNov 22, 2022 · Consequential constitutional monarchs know well that their dignity and longevity relies on remaining well above the common fray. Yet, in Malaysia right now the dangers for royalty of slipping into the political arena are being spelt out, as an overtly well-meaning monarch who is trying to resolve a hung parliament (they happen) has become perilously in danger of owning whatever outcome is ...
Time For Transparency In Sarawak – SarawakReport
WEBJul 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 ...
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.
Constitutional Showdown – What Next? – SarawakReport
WEBAug 2, 2021 · Constitutional Showdown – What Next? 2 Aug 2021. BM. 翻译. A constitutional crisis can have its upsides. Sarawak Report is not referring to the Law Minister having a heart attack nor to the attempted flight of the toady Speaker to foreign parts: it settles matters, hopefully for the best. Malaysia is a …
Dayak Forum Brings Sarawak’s Indigenous Voices Together In Miri
WEBJun 28, 2024 · A Welcome Supper on Friday night attended by scores of delegates from native communities and civil society NGOs across Sarawak saw a barnstorming opening to the first Dayak Forum being held in Miri this weekend. Co-host and sponsor Dennis Along, President of TERING, kicked off the proceedings with the key themes of unity, representation and ...