ANTIDOTE “Our battle is not just for the orang kampung (villagers). We're doing this for all the people, all anak Sarawak.”

Rosni anak Langap, 53, wife of the elderly Native Customary Rights (NCR) activist Surik Anak Muntai, told Malaysiakini this, as she cared for her badly injured husband at Sarawak Hospital.

Surik, 66, was savagely attacked on March 15 by a gang of four men, using machetes and clubs. Surik has identified one of the assailants as an “executive” of an oil palm plantation firm vying with local Iban villagers for 7,300 ha of land – a quarter of the area of Penang Island.