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伐木公司入侵家園 馬來西亞原住民封路抗爭

2008年06月20日
摘譯自2008年6月17日ENS馬來西亞,沙勞越,美里市報導;施宏燕編譯;禾引審校

肯雅族( Kenyah )原住民封鎖婆羅洲摩河上游的道路,並說「三林木材公司不能掠奪窮人的土地資源,然後轉賣給城裡的有錢人。」。圖片來源:Borneo Resources Institute為了阻止伐木公司,馬來西亞沙勞越原住民在自治領域發起為期一個月的封路行動,然而,現在他們的行動終被警方制止了。

100多名肯雅族(Kenyah)原住民聚集在婆羅洲摩河上游的封路地點,他們聲稱封路是唯一能迫使三林木材公司(Samling Timber Company)與政府官員走上談判桌,和原住民協商並聆聽他們的問題與要求的辦法。要不這麼做,他們認為三林木材公司會一直忽視他們的要求和處境。

設立於美里(Miri)的「婆羅洲資源中心」,17日代表肯雅居民的發表一份聲明,他們說自從三林開始在上巴蘭地區(Baram)伐木,當地部落就一直遭受環境衝擊。他們也說,三林公司侵入部落自治領域和林區砍伐木材,從未與部落協商,也未考慮森林是他們生計的來源。

婆羅洲資源中心表示,肯雅族現在以「有權公平享有當地森林資源的權益關係人」的身分,為社會公益和部落發展提出合理要求。

肯雅族說,因為三林公司和國家林業當局忽視他們的要求、忽視肯雅族使用自然森林資源的權益,族人才會訴諸封路行動。自從他們展開封路行動之後,三林的伐木作業便停止下來;由於族人阻擋了所有卡車和機具進出林區,數百根原木堆置在路邊無法運出。

三林木材公司的伐木行為,令當地部落就一直遭受環境衝擊。圖片來源:Borneo Resources Institute肯雅族曾寫信給國營事業「沙勞越林業公司」,要求該機構對三林公司的在這區域進行非法砍伐的木材展開緊急調查,他們也呼籲該機構在調查結束前,應停止三林公司繼續伐木。但是這個要求還是被忽視,族人認為他們已透過各種管道,除了封路以外,沒有其他辦法能讓他們的處境受重視,因此,巴蘭地區的族人決定集結起來,繼續抗爭下去。

沙勞越林業公司在收到三林公司的投訴後,5月29日曾派人前往封路地點排除路障,不過,林業公司僅移開路障而未拆除。最新發展是,林業公會向美里最高法院申請逮捕令,也獲得批准。警方6月14日奉命前往封路地點執法,不過,至今尚未有任何人員遭拘捕。

Malaysian Indigenous People Face Arrest at Logging Blockade
MIRI, Sarawak, Malaysia, June 17, 2008 (ENS)

A month-long blockade of logging roads by indigenous people in the state of Sarawak, Malaysia set to protest illegal logging on their communal lands is about to be broken up by police.

More than 100 indigenous Kenyah people gathered at the blockade site on the upper Moh River on the island of Borneo claim that the blockade is their only way of calling on representatives of the Samling Timber Company and government authorities to have a consultation and meet with them to listen to their problems and demands.

Otherwise, they say, the Samling Timber Company will continue to ignore their demands and plights.
According to the Borneo Resources Institute in Miri, which issued a statement today on behalf of the Kenyah peoples, ever since Samling started its logging operations in the upper Baram area, the indigenous communities have suffered the environmental impacts of logging.

They say the company simply encroached into their communal land and forest areas to carry out logging activities, without any consultation and consideration for their source of livelihood.

The Kenyahs have forwarded some "reasonable demands for social benefits and development of the community as they are the rights stakeholders that should be fairly benefit from forest resources in their area," the Borneo Resources Institute says.

The Kenyah say they resorted to the blockade action after the company and the state forest agency ignored their demands and their rights of access and claims to the benefits of their natural forest resources.

Since the blockade was erected, Samling's logging activities have ceased. Hundreds of timber logs that had been felled are stacked up along the sides of the logging road because the Kenyahs have stopped all the logging trucks and other logging machines from entering the area and transporting timber from the area.

The Kenyahs have written a letter to the Sarawak Forestry Corporation, a state government agency, requesting that the agency carry out an urgent physical inspection of all logs that have been illegally felled by Samling in the area. They also called upon the Sarawak Forestry Corporation to stop Samling from carrying out its operation until all inspection of timber logs has been completed.

Their request has been ignored.

Believing that they have no other alternative and being compelled to bring attention to their plight, the indigenous Kenyahs of Kedaya Telang Usan area in Baram Region have resorted to staging this protest, which is still continuing.

On May 29, upon receiving complaints from the Samling Timber Company, a group of personnel from the Sarawak Forestry Corporation, went to the blockade site to remove the wooden barricades, but they were restrained from dismantling the blockade.

As a result, the Sarawak Forestry Corporation filed a court action requesting a Warrant of Arrest, which has been granted by the Magistrate Court in Miri.

Police personnel from the Marudi Police Station were ordered to the blockade site to enforce the Warrant of Arrest on June 14. So far, no arrests have taken place.

全文及圖片詳見:ENS