Deep in the Bintulu rainforest in Sarawak, an Iban community defending their ancestral land is being treated like trespassers, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) released yesterday.

The report stated that timber companies are moving onto the land with support from the Sarawak government in the form of tree planting concessions.

The Iban community of Rumah Jeffery, documented in the HRW report, “Facing the Bulldozers: Iban indigenous resistance to the timber industry in Sarawak, Malaysia”...