Mulu environmental activist Willie Kajan said the signatures were collected during a petition campaign in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and Switzerland over the past week."We have presented the petition with the signatures to the Malaysian Embassy and the European Union office in Brussels."We want our native rights protected and our forests to remain intact," Kajan said.
The documentary premiered at the European Union office in Brussels was filmed by Swiss environmental activist group, the Bruno Manser Foundation ."Our team went to Mulu to go into the areas cleared for oil palm. On March 25, a pastor of a Miri church lodged a police report against BMF activists for allegedly trespassing into Mulu and stirring up human blockades against an oil-palm giant.Malang is a native from the Kenyah ethnic group while the natives in Mulu are from the Penan, Berawan and Tering communities.
Malang had said he represented community leaders in Mulu who want to see socio-economic development there."We community leaders represent the Mulu people who want to see socio-economic development that can benefit the people," he said.They staged human blockades to stop plantation company workers from clearing the forest adjacent to Mulu.
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