Orang asli file suit against four over land issue

Mengek (fourth from left) and Jengkeng (fifth from left) with their lawyer Hannan Ishak (fourth from right) showing their dissatisfaction along with other villagers at the Civil High Court in Johor Baru.

JOHOR BARU: Some 600 orang asli are up in arms over the installation of fences on their ancestral land in a forest near Ledang, Tangkak, that limited their movement and affected their livelihood.

Furious over the authorities’ actions and desperate to save their land, the group from two orang asli villages, namely Kampung Sungai Air Tawas and Kampung Tanah Gembur, filed a suit in court here against four defendants.