BARAM, Sarawak, Malaysia, July 25, 2022 (ENS) – Indigenous Penan communities have filed a police report and erected blockades to put a permanent stop to logging of the mountain Batu Siman in northern ...
IN THE remote corners of Sarawak, the Penan community has experienced a dramatic transformation over the years. Former deputy education minister Datuk Hon Choon Kim has encapsulated his experiences ...
KUCHING: Over 40 Penan community leaders made the long journey from Ulu Baram to the state capital to attend Sarawak Premier Tan Sri Abang Johari Openg's Hari Raya open house on Tuesday (April 1).
LONG AJENG, Sarawak, Malaysia, September 16, 2021 (ENS) – In Malaysian Borneo, a dozen indigenous Penan communities of Sarawak’s Upper Baram region have acted in concert to stop the bulldozers of ...
The Penan tribe, indigenous people of East Malaysia, have taken quite some press and blog space this year. Kopi Sejuk [cold coffee] writes: On[e] a sunny Sunday morning last year, 16-year-old Cynthia ...
The Penan community in Ba Abang, Miri, Sarawak has again erected a blockade to prevent a timber company from logging in the area, according to two NGOs. Swiss environmental NGO Bruno Manser Fund and ...
Satellite image of ongoing logging operations in Ba Data Bila (Photo/Supplied) A member of the Penan Indigenous community from Ba Data Bila in Upper Baram has issued urgent protest letters to Sarawak ...
Members of the Penan tribe have suspended their month long blockade of the Murum dam in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, reports Survival International. However, according to the indigenous group the ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. A meeting between the Penan indigenous tribe, Malaysian government officials, and representatives of a logging company ended without an agreement ...
LONG SEBAYANG, SARAWAK, MALAYSIA. A Penan hunter has been violently attacked by a logging company official at a timber road blockade in Sarawak, East Malaysia. This has been reported this morning by ...
BINTULU, Sept 10 (Bernama) -- Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah and Raja Permaisuri Agong Tunku Azizah Maimunah Iskandariah showed their recognition of ...
The nomadic hunter-gatherer Penan are one of the last such groups in South East Asia. Out of the 10,000 Penan living in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, Borneo, only 200 nomadic people are left. Bruce ...