Indigenous People
The real Avatar story: indigenous people fight to save their forest homes from corporate exploitation
In James Cameron’s newest film Avatar an alien tribe on a distant planet fights to save their forest home from human invaders bent on mining the planet. The mining company has brought in ex-marines for ’security’ and will stop at nothing, not even genocide, to secure profits for its shareholders. While Cameron’s film takes place [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Penan Natives Sue The Government
-Environment News Service – The indigenous Penan people on the island of Borneo have turned to the courts in their decades-long effort to protect their ancestral lands from logging and plantations.
Five indigenous Penan communities of the East Malaysian state of Sarawak have filed a lawsuit against the Sarawak state government and three licensees of timber [...]
New twist to the Penan peace-deal
-The Star-
MIRI: There’s a new twist to the “peace-deal” mooted by the Sarawak government with anti-logging Penan protestors living in timber concession zones in Sarawak.
The state government, which had promised to give land to the Penans, now wants them to leave their ancestral jungles and be relocated to government-built resettlement schemes before they are given [...]
Rainforest tribe declares ‘peace park’ to defend lands from logging in Sarawak
In an attempt to block destructive logging of their traditional land, a group of indigenous Penan has declared a “peace park” in the Upper Baram region of Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo, reports the Bruno Manser Fund.
The “Penan Peace Park” includes 1630 square kilometers (163,000 hectares) around the Gunung Murud Kecil mountain range near to [...]
Natives affected by Murum dam project want RM500,000
-The Star- KUCHING: Some 300 Penan families who will be displaced by the Murum hydro-dam project have demanded RM500,000 each in compensation to be resettled.
Additionally, they want the state government to provide free basic amenities like concrete houses, piped water and electricity supply, a clinic and a school in the resettlement scheme.
Adequate and suitably-sized farm [...]
Malaysia’s last nomads in search of a home
-Malaysiakini.com-
Malaysia’s last nomadic community may soon have no choice but to abandon their traditional life and settle down.
For thousands of years, Malaysia’s nomadic Batek tribe have roamed the country’s ancient tropical rainforests, completely at one with their natural habitat.
But now the Batek’s traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle is under severe threat from deforestation and development, and mainland [...]
Penang help for Penan abuse victims
-The Star-
GEORGE TOWN: Penang is donating RM30,000 to help the Penan girls and women who were allegedly raped and sexually abused by timber company workers.
Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said the state would work out a mechanism to channel the money to the victims but not through the Sarawak government.
“We will see if we can [...]
SARAWAK STATE GOVERNMENT NOT LISTENING TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Kuching, Sarawak. On the day that Malaysia was formed, 15 indigenous peoples who stood for four hours outside the Chief Minister’s office on behalf of longhouses and villages in Sarawak that would be affected by two proposed dams were arrested outside the office of the Chief Minister as they waited to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Penan blockades dismantled
-The Straits Times-
On August 20, hundreds of Penan armed with spears and blowpipes set up blockades in three locations in the Borneo interior, escalating their campaign against the destruction of their rainforest home. — PHOTO: AFP
KUALA LUMPUR – MALAYSIAN police said on Wednesday they had dismantled blockades constructed in the Borneo jungles by [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Sarawak Government Asked To Investigate Abuse Of Penan Women
(Bernama) — Th Sarawak government should take genuine action to investigate and punish those guilty of sexually abusing Penan women, said Sarawak Native Women’s Association (Wadesa) president, Hellan Empaing.
“Wadesa is very disappointed with some government politicians who treated this matter as a petty issue,” she said in a statement here.
Empaing said it was also [...]
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