I just came across this brilliant community film that offers a positive step forward in the sticky issue of native customary rights versus political interests.
Towards Sustainable Forests/Ke Arah Hutan Lestari
by
Centre for Orang Asli Concerns
http://www.coac.org.my/codenavia/portals/coacv2/code/main/main.php
3 comments:
Totally impressive. It is projects like this that make The University of Life! For the community to participate in first understanding then constucting a topographically correct model of their ancestral for community management initiatives is amazing.Beating "red paint bureaucracy" for love of the land with intelligence!
Very well made doco. Colin has been busy - good on him! Unfortunately, only tree-huggers like us seem to appreciate what these down-to-earth folk are telling us. Perhaps we have no option but to subject maniacs like Taib Mahmud, Mahathir and all the sultans to compulsory 24/7 viewing of this and similar docos until they express genuine remorse for their erroneous worldviews and sell off their chainsaws and bulldozers as scrap metal.
Precisely!
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