Coming to terms with loss of ancestral land

RUNNING along the corridor of the longhouse, three-year-old Jane was oblivious of the group of Orang Malaya (as Sarawak natives refer to West Malaysians) journalists who were paying a visit to her home in the Sungai Asap Resettlement Scheme. 

This Kayan child is among many others who have grown up in a semi-urban environment over the last two years after their families were compelled to move here from the vast, forested interior of Bakun to give way to the construction of the dam.