Land rights
A number of Penan villages have filed land rights claims within the Malaysian courts for areas over which Samling holds logging concessions. Certainly one of these instances has been pending within the courts since 1998. The corporate claims on its web site that it ‘function[s] throughout the confines of the regulation which the federal government prescribes,’ and that within the authorized disputes through which it’s concerned, ‘the true concern issues the federal government and the native communities’. Nevertheless, Samling government James Ho stated in an interview on Swiss tv in 2007, ‘The Penan don’t have any rights to the forest.’
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Samling is attempting to log all of the timber in our forest. After they enter the realm we’ll lose the whole lot.Penan man, Lengthy Kerong
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A report launched in September 2009 by the Malaysian Ministry for Ladies, Household and Neighborhood Growth verified allegations that Penan ladies and women had been raped by logging firm employees. Samling employees had been amongst these whom the Penan had accused of abuse. The Penan suspect that group chief Kelesau Naan, who disappeared in October 2007 and was later discovered lifeless, could have been killed as a result of his opposition to Samling’s logging actions. The corporate additionally has operations in Peninsular Malaysia, China, New Zealand, Australia and Guyana.
From Survival’s web site
‘Authorities report confirms Penan women had been raped by loggers’ ‘Logging protests unfold in Borneo as nomads block roads’ The Penan Progress Can Kill report
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