The Kuching High Court found that the Provisional Lease issued covers or includes or impairs the Plaintiffs’ rights over the said native customary land therein was null and void as it violated the Plaintiffs’ rights enshrined under Article 13 (1) of the Federal Constitution and Section 15 (1) of the Sarawak Land Code Cap. 81.
Oil palm company fails to get natives evicted through court, status quo of natives maintained.
The Bar Council Committee on Orang Asli Rights (COAR), Human Rights Committee and Professional Standards and Development Committee, are co-organising a workshop on “Native Title Rights – the Issues, Claims and the Law.”
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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