#IdolaDemokrasi 39: When West Met East
Desecration of indigenous land and lives understood up close in my maiden visit to Sarawak.
Desecration of indigenous land and lives understood up close in my maiden visit to Sarawak.
On the 18th Feb, 2011, 100 armed thugs camped at Rumah Ranggong, Sarawak with explosives & parangs, over a land dispute between the longhouse and an oil palm company. Now the villagers are being accused as the aggressors by the local press.
Oil palm company fails to get natives evicted through court, status quo of natives maintained.
One dominating corporation has been repeatedly put on the spotlight for displacing indigenous communities in Sarawak. Yet it is business as usual for IOI, even after the Kayan community won their class action suit against IOI, they have yet to receive any compensation and IOI continues to trespass and harvest oil palm on their land.
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