Joachim Leong

Upper Bengoh Under Water

24:39

Upper Bengoh Under Water highlights the plight of four villages that will soon be submerged under water by the Bengoh Dam in Sarawak, Malaysia. These villagers will have to leave their homes, farmland and orchards - and yet, during the recent State Elections, they did not voice their objections at the ballot box against the government's resettlement plans. We take Bengoh as a case study to find out why rural Sarawak in general did not vote against the ruling coalition. Read more…

Categories

• Activism
• Civil Liberties
• Forests / Conservation
• Human Rights
• Indigenous
• Law / Justice

Country

• Malaysia

Video Language

• Malay