Defending the environs: The Orang Asli of Kampung Air Hitam and Tanjung Keruing have made a police report alleging unauthorised clearing of what appears to be peat land next to their villages in the Pekan district.
KUANTAN: For the past one week, a group of Orang Asli villagers from Tanjung Keruing and Kampung Air Hitam have been involved in a dispute with contractors clearing a patch of secondary forest near their settlements.
They are claiming that land clearing activities by the Pahang Farmers’ Association (Pasfa) had encroached into their ancestral land located about 80km from here, along with threatening the ecosystem consisting of peat land.
