MIRI: Dozens of reports have been lodged with various enforcement agencies alleging corrupt practices in the logging industry in northern Sarawak but little seems to have been done by the authorities, say complainants.
Human rights groups from the indigenous rural communities in the region praised Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem yesterday for coming down hard on corrupt practices in the timber and logging industries but they want to know why the state Forestry Department, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and police have not acted on the many reports lodged by the natives over the years.
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