MIRI: Timely intervention and negotiation by police, state Forestry Department officials and the Marudi district officer prevented a logging dispute between a group of Penans and a timber firm from escalating into an ugly confrontation.
A group of about 200 Penans from two settlements in upper Baram had last week staged a timber blockade to stop the firm's workers from entering and extracting timber in a forest, which the Penans claimed was their ancestral land.
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