Some 150 Penan families can breathe a sigh of relief after a plantation company failed in its bid to restrain them from entering the native customary rights (NCR) land in Suai Niah.
High Court judge Stephen Chung Hian Guan, after a full trial, today quashed SPB Pelita Suai Sdn Bhd’s application to order the landowners to deliver and surrender vacant possession of the plantation area.
“This is the greatest news for the native Penans. They are relieved that they are the rightful owners and reassured of what they did in the past to defend their rights,” the community’s lawyer Abun Sui Anyit told fz.com. (more…)