Residents from longhouses deny involvement in illegal logging

Semawi (seated second from right) with representatives of the four longhouses.

SIBU: Residents of four longhouses in Ulu Machan have denied involvement in the felling of engkabang and other timber trees in the Machan constituency.

On July 11, Machan assemblyman Allan Siden Gramong was quoted as saying at the State Legislative Assembly that there had been cases of people claiming to be protectors of native customary rights (NCR) land who had encroached into their neighbour’s land and felled trees.