LAND RIGHTS

The single priority for the indigenous communities is recognising the land rights of the indigenous people. Apart from the Native Customary Rights (NCR) lands, other land matters are to be highlighted here.

Sarawak Government: The High Court is Wrong
The State Government does not appear to be bothered with the criticism it is likely to draw, that it is trying to influence and pressure the High Court Judge who will be hearing the application for ......
04 Feb 2010

Agi & Ramli Kuching High Court Judgments reaffirming Native Customary Rights lands
Kuching High Courts judgments on Rh Agi and Ramli Native Customary Lands Rights cases in favour of the Ibans and a Malay plaintiffs.
26 Jan 2010

civil society organisations outrage over Sungai Sekabai demolition
PRESS STATEMENT: We the concerned civil society organisations (CSOs) having met and deliberated in Sibu on 23 January 2010 on the recent news of the demolition of houses belonging to the residents of ......
23 Jan 2010

Ibans and Malays win native rights over lands in Kuching High Court
High Court Judge held that the respective communities have proven that they have native customary rights over the disputed land and he declared so, and awarded them damages and costs.
21 Jan 2010

Malaysian authorities destroy Borneo rainforest village
SUNGAI SEKABAI / SARAWAK, EAST MALAYSIA. In a dramatic twist to one of Malaysia’s most prominent legal conflicts between native communities and the government of the East Malaysian state of Sarawak ......
20 Jan 2010

Sarawak party leader calls on natives to fight for their rights
KUCHING, SARAWAK / MALAYSIA. In a remarkable interview granted to the Bruno Manser Fund, the new Sarawak leader of the People's Justice Party (PKR), Kuching-based lawyer, Baru Bian, has spoken out on ......
12 Jan 2010

The Bidayuh of Upper Bengoh face dam-induced relocation
Sarawak Gone is a micro-docs series raising awareness to the gradual decimation of the indigenous life and culture of Sarawak, the native land rights at stake and the rapidly decreasing habitats that ......
06 Jan 2010

Norwegian CEO assumes responsibility for Sarawak's controversial mega-dams
KUCHING, SARAWAK / MALAYSIA. Torstein Dale Sjøtveit, a Norwegian national who has formerly worked as an executive with the Norsk Hydro group, has recently been appointed the new Chief Executive ......
05 Jan 2010

‘Samling Sun’ told to pack up and leave Solomon Islands
A MALAYSIAN logging company ‘Samling Sun’ currently operating in South Malaita was told to pack up and leave. Representative of Hailadami Ouou Matawa council of chiefs, Henry Stardora said they want ......
29 Dec 2009

'This government is very bad'
Balan Balang, an elderly chief of the Penan tribe, sighs as he talks of the Murum dam, the first of the dozen dams envisioned for Sarawak state, which will drown the hunting grounds and burial sites ......
27 Dec 2009