In the early 1990s, the logging roads running through Sarawak’s Upper Baram became the site of a bitter confrontation. Penan families built wooden barricades across red-dirt tracks, blocking bulldozers and timber trucks and facing units of the Police Field Force. As the protests drew international attention, the government of Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud restricted [Continue reading] The post Pete Brosius helped the Penan strengthen their land rights in Sarawak appeared first on Rhett Ayers Butler .