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 ...
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 ...
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.
You Can SLAPP Us But We Won’t Give In Say BMF To The Taib Family
WEBJan 17, 2020 · The couple’s Canadian law firm has meanwhile set up an attack site online, selectively showcasing ponts allegedly scored in their cross examination against BMF. The site claims that Straumann ‘admitted’ he has ‘no evidence’ that money has gone from Taib Mahmud into their family firm. To the contrary, BMF and Sarawak Report both ...
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.
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 ...
Continuing Criminal Chaos Or A Proper Clean Up? Malaysia’s Choice
WEBNov 6, 2022 · Sarawak Report has ended up reporting on volumes of corrupt practice in Malaysia over recent years. Now all the perpetrators are fighting amongst each other in the hope of regaining office and avoiding jail. It is not a pretty sight and such creatures and those who once supported them are not fit for office. Their only promise is more chaos and more corruption .....
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 Dayak Unrest In Niah Exposes a Pattern Of Discontent
WEBAug 21, 2024 · More Dayak Unrest In Niah Exposes a Pattern Of Discontent. This week yet another story of rural conflict was brought to the attention of Radio Free Sarawak. It is the sort of incident one rarely hears much reported in the pages of ‘mainstream’ media owned by local timber barons. On the surface, the events comprised hooligan behaviour by ...
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 ...