Peaceful demo. villagers from Baram district northern Sarawak and members of social and environmental NGOs yesterday held a peaceful demo in Miri City to express their worries about the construction of the RM 4 billion Baram Dam in interior northern sarawak. the demo was held outside a hotel where Baram Senator Lihan Jok was meeting officials of the Sarawak Energy Bhd and villagers affected by the project. police allowed the demo to go on for 30 minutes. pic.
MIRI: More environmental and human rights organisations, including from foreign countries, are joining in the fight to help local indigenous groups in Sarawak to stop the construction of the proposed RM4bil Baram Dam in ulu Baram in northern Sarawak.
Yesterday, the Bangkok-based Asia Indigenous People’s Pact, Swiss-based Bruno Manser Foundation and International Rivers, joined Save Sarawak Rivers, Jaringan Orang Asal SeMalaysia (JOAS), Suaram and Borneo Resources Institute to try to pressure the Sarawak government and local authorities to abort the dam project.
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