No Consent to Proceed: Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Violations At The Proposed Baram Dam in Sarawak
18 August 2014 6:31 pm

This report was launched on August 18, 2014 in Kuala Lumpur and subsequently submitted to SUHAKAM, the National Human Rights Commission of Malaysia.

In the Malaysian state of Sarawak, on the island of Borneo, the Sarawak Government and the state-owned company, Sarawak Energy Berhad (SEB), are collaborating on plans to build a series of up to twelve large-scale hydroelectric dams as part of an industrial development initiative called the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (SCORE). The dams will inundate an area of more than 2,100 square kilometers, submerging forests, cultivated areas, and villages, and forcibly displace tens of thousands of indigenous people from their customary lands.

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