http://redapes.org/news-updates/blockade-arrest-warrants-for-natives-in-remote-baram/ Reach out and save the orangutans! Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:09:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://redapes.org/news-updates/blockade-arrest-warrants-for-natives-in-remote-baram/#comment-5844 Forest Policy Research » Blog Archive » 360 Asia-Pacific-Australia Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:17:54 +0000 http://redapes.org/?p=1655#comment-5844 [...] 5) Ten Kenyah natives have arrest warrants out for them from the Miri Magistrates Court for blockading Samling timber company from logging their communal lands in the remote Baram region of Sarawak. On May 19, indigenous Kenyahs from six longhouse communities - Long Moh, Long Je’eh, Long Bela’ong, Long Sawan, Long Silat and Long Mekabar - gathered at upper Sungai Moh to stage a non-violent protest against logging operations by Samling. They’ve erected wooden barricades on the major logging roads used by Samling to carry out its logging activities within the communal lands and forest area where the Kenyahs of Kedaya Telang Usan in Baram inhabit. The blockade - located about 300km southeast of Miri - aimed to discontinue timber extraction and transportation from their forest areas in the upper Sungai Sebua, Sungai Jekitan and Sungai Moh area. According to Abin, Samling’s logging activities - legal and also purportedly illegal ones - have temporarily ceased for the last three weeks since the blockade was erected.“Hundreds of timber logs that had been felled are stacked up along the sides of the logging road. “The Kenyahs have stopped all the logging trucks and other logging machineries from entering and transporting timbers from the area,” he said in a statement. Raymond indicated that the natives have written to the Sarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC) requesting for an urgent physical inspection of all logs felled by Samling and want them to disallow further logging until the inspection was completed. He pointed out that the indigenous people have severely suffered the environmental impacts of logging activities ever since Samling started its logging operations in upper Baram area. The company simply encroached into their communal land and forest areas to carry out logging activities, without any consultation and consideration for their source of livelihood. “They resorted to this action after the company continued to ignore their demands and rights of access and benefits to their natural forest resources. “Their numerous complaints to the authorities and the logging companies regarding their claims to the forest resources and the problems caused by logging have fallen on deaf ears,” he stated. http://redapes.org/news-updates/blockade-arrest-warrants-for-natives-in-remote-baram/ [...] [...] 5) Ten Kenyah natives have arrest warrants out for them from the Miri Magistrates Court for blockading Samling timber company from logging their communal lands in the remote Baram region of Sarawak. On May 19, indigenous Kenyahs from six longhouse communities - Long Moh, Long Je’eh, Long Bela’ong, Long Sawan, Long Silat and Long Mekabar - gathered at upper Sungai Moh to stage a non-violent protest against logging operations by Samling. They’ve erected wooden barricades on the major logging roads used by Samling to carry out its logging activities within the communal lands and forest area where the Kenyahs of Kedaya Telang Usan in Baram inhabit. The blockade - located about 300km southeast of Miri - aimed to discontinue timber extraction and transportation from their forest areas in the upper Sungai Sebua, Sungai Jekitan and Sungai Moh area. According to Abin, Samling’s logging activities - legal and also purportedly illegal ones - have temporarily ceased for the last three weeks since the blockade was erected.“Hundreds of timber logs that had been felled are stacked up along the sides of the logging road. “The Kenyahs have stopped all the logging trucks and other logging machineries from entering and transporting timbers from the area,” he said in a statement. Raymond indicated that the natives have written to the Sarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC) requesting for an urgent physical inspection of all logs felled by Samling and want them to disallow further logging until the inspection was completed. He pointed out that the indigenous people have severely suffered the environmental impacts of logging activities ever since Samling started its logging operations in upper Baram area. The company simply encroached into their communal land and forest areas to carry out logging activities, without any consultation and consideration for their source of livelihood. “They resorted to this action after the company continued to ignore their demands and rights of access and benefits to their natural forest resources. “Their numerous complaints to the authorities and the logging companies regarding their claims to the forest resources and the problems caused by logging have fallen on deaf ears,” he stated. http://redapes.org/news-updates/blockade-arrest-warrants-for-natives-in-remote-baram/ [...]

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