THE Bar Council will set up a le-gal team to look into the recent protest by almost 1,000 orang asli in Bidor, Perak, against the construction of a national botanical garden project on their “ancestral land”.
Council president Ambiga Sreene-vasan said that the team, to consist of about eight members from both the national and the Perak Bar, would study the legal issues surrounding the matter, especially from the hu-man rights perspective.
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