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Submission material is for a publication on the present condition of 4th
world, native, indigenous, or any other such resistances against
state or multinational corporation exploitation globally. These
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Provide information on the following subjects as they apply.
1. Geographic location.
2. How long has dispute been engaged?
3. Who are the primary parties involved?
states, nations, peoples, corporations . . . etc.
4. What resources are involved?
land, minerals, timber, water, oil, labor . . . etc.
5. How are the resources used by the exploiter? Where do they go?
6. How are these resources needed by the community in danger?
7. Have resources in question changed over time?
8. What outcome does each party desire?
autonomy, independence, resource control . . . etc.
9. What would each party settle for?
autonomy, independence, profit share . . . etc.
10. How have alliances and opposition changed over time?
11. How are each of the parties represent themselves?
12. How are the parties represented by their opposition?
13. Brief background of resisting community.
i.e. 1. Geographic location.
Sarawak Malaysia, primary rainforest areas and swidden
agricultural areas.
2. How long has dispute been engaged?
since 1975
3.What primary parties are involved?
Penan, other Dayak tribes, state, logging industries
(primarily headed by family members of state ministry) ministry of energy
4.What resources are involved?
timber, land, water
5.How are the resources used by the exploiter? Where do they go?
Raw logs are sent to Japan for use there, swidden lands
are converted to monocrop plantations, rivers are dammed for
hydroelectric projects. All of these exploitation practices displace
traditional populations to inadequate settlement villages.
6. How are these resources needed by the community in danger?
Timber resources are essential to maintaining a stable
ecosystem in which the Penan and Dayak tribes use resources for all their
daily needs, food, shelter, medicine, and spiritual practices. Clean
water is essential to community physical health. Many previously unknown
illnesses have resulted from not having access to clean water. Water is
dirtied with petroleum products and silt as a result of logging.
Hydroelectric dams flood previously accessible agricultural land as well
as flooding longhouse s therefore displacing previously well established
communities.
7.Have resources in question changed over time?
No
8. What outcome does each party desire?
Penan and Dayaks - autonomy, legal pluralism, bioreserve
status of traditional lands. State - free and unlimited access to
natural resources.
9.What would each party settle for?
Penan - autonomy, bioreserve status for a compromised
area of productive land (under their definition of productive). State -
minimal compensation to Penan and Dayaks for unlimited access to natural
resources.
10.How have alliances and opposition changed over time?
Dayak alliance with Penan is constantly in flux. Some
times if the state offers large compensation for land a Dayak will accept
with out consulting local Penan group even though a Penan group may also
have traditionally used the land.
11. How are each of the parties represented unto themselves?
Penan and Dayak- peaceful patient resistors.
State - benevolent protector attempting to bring the
Penan and Dayak into the modern era.
12.How are the parties represented by their opposition?
The Penan and Dayak view the state as greedy self serving
with no understanding or interest in the needs of Dayak communities.
The state views the Penan and Dayak communities as
primitive and backward resistors to modern progress set in motion for
their own good to raise them up out an animalistic life of savagery.
They also consider the Penan and Dayak as in the way.
13.Brief background of resisting community.
The Penan are believed to be the original inhabitants of
Borneos rainforest. For the past 40.000 years they have been living in
band as nomadic hunter gatherers living in harmony with their forests
ecosystem. The various Dayak tribes that inhabit the same general region
as the Penan arrived 3-6,000 years ago they are swidden agriculturists
who use very little primary forest in their agricultural practices. They
have existed in the land of the Penan in relative harmony trading goods
and ideas with the Penan since their arrival.