Why Are Sarawakians’ Rights To Local Democracy Being Hijacked?
May 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 ...
Malaysia’s Rainforest Threat Is Focused On Sarawak
Jun 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 ...
How Come Sarawak’s JPN Continues To Block Indigenous ID Rights?
Jul 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 ...
Final Appeal Court Slams Sarawak’s Land Grab Tactics And Hints …
May 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
5 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 ...
Stop The Criminals Behind The Illegal Looting Of Sarawak’s Last ...
Mar 8, 2023 · Once again, the police (backed by local politicians) have moved to forcibly remove the blockades put up by indigenous Penan groups in Baram to attempt to discourage the loggers who have been laying illegal waste to some of the regions last remaining virgin forests and ‘protected’ Belian species.
Time For Transparency In Sarawak – SarawakReport
Jul 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 ...
Constitutional Showdown – What Next? – SarawakReport
Aug 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 young democracy meaning that certain ...
Sarawak’s Lip Service Only Eco-policies – SarawakReport
Aug 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 ...
Dayak Forum Brings Sarawak’s Indigenous Voices Together In Miri
Jun 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 ...