Penan tribe block logging roads in protest

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Borneo, the world’s third largest island, is divided between Borneo, Indonesia, and Malaysia. MAP

The protestors were marking the anniversary of previous road blockades a year ago, which brought the logging industry in the area to a halt. Last year’s blockades were dismantled at the insistence of police and government officials.

Controversial Malaysian logging giant Samling is one of the companies active in the area. The Norwegian government announced last month that it had excluded Samling from its pension fund on ethical grounds.

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