Logging activities still going on despite instruction to cease operations, says an activist.
Willy Kajan with Bruno Manser Fonds director Lukas Straumann and other Orang Asli leaders at a conference in Kuching today.
Kajan said during a meeting on March 4 with Gala and 14 government agency officers and representatives from the oil palm company, Gala highlighted that issues related to water catchment, native customary rights’ land and burial grounds must be resolved immediately. He said the Orang Asli objected to the oil palm plantation because their livelihood is dependent on the natural resources at the area.
Meanwhile, Bruno Manser Fonds claimed that a bank in Singapore had loaned US$31 million to the oil palm company to convert 4,400 hectares of native forest land into oil palm plantations.
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