Orang Asli at Kampung Tasik Cunex, Grik, protest against logging activities by the Perak government.
“The law does not only comprise statutory law, it also includes common law, customs and usage having the force of law, and judicial decisions. “We have also heard senior executive officers in Peninsular Malaysia ignorantly repeating that indigenous customary land rights do not exist in their states. This only demonstrates the woeful state of their understanding of the law.
Idris referred to a report SAM published in 2016 entitled “Encroachment on Orang Asli Customary Land in Peninsular Malaysia” which contains 12 case studies of how logging and plantations had impacted Orang Asli communities.
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