ANTIDOTE Metro Ahad , a tabloid newspaper linked to Umno through Media Prima, has raised angry calls for a boycott, following a disturbing May 13 story alleging that unnamed Sarawakian Penans practise incest.

In a report headlined Abang Kahwin Adik Sendiri (Brother is married to his own sister), reporter Hadzlan Hassan claimed that ‘investigations and research by the newspaper found that around 15 families in the (Ulu Baram) area live in a nomadic fashion although a longhouse has been provided for them, and have married blood relatives, in fact 10 couples married their own flesh and blood’.

There are several jarring details in Metro's succinct report. Despite splashing a large photo across its homepage with a caption "My mother is my wife, my father is my husband", it failed to set out the name of the village or its exact location.