Council sets out to get Penan families into planting wet padi

PAKAN: The 1Malaysia Sarawak Advisory Council hopes to visit Penan families at Lesong Laku in the Belaga District to interest them in wet padi cultivation.

Its chairman, Datuk Joseph Salang, said 133 families in the area had been identified so far for the programme, which would enable them to give up their nomadic way of life that also involved searching for food in the jungle.