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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Talkback – SarawakReport
WEBAug 2, 2024 · The fall of the massive Sarawak flag, ‘Ibu Pertiwi’, into the Sarawak River last Monday was not anticipated in the standard operating procedures (SOP) of the Kuching North City Commission (DBKU), said Datuk Abdul Rahman Junaidi. The state deputy minister of utility and telecommunication explained that …
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Anything But Reform? – SarawakReport
WEBAug 12, 2021 · Anything But Reform? The madness continues, but there is method behind it without a doubt. The election in Sarawak has been postponed using emergency powers to sideline the Constitution yet again. Yet again, this has been on the grounds of Covid. Meanwhile, it is known that the Limpet of Putrajaya has been floating a …
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.
GPS’s ‘Dayak’ Representation Looks Set To Be A Liability For PH
WEBDec 9, 2022 · GPS exists to keep the status quo in Sarawak, as established by the Ya’kub/Taib family dictatorship from the 1970s till this day. For this reason the current chief minister, Abang Jo, initially and instinctively rejected an alliance with the reforming, anti-corruption PH coalition which received most votes in the election (and which he had also readily abandoned following the earlier ...