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The Documentary Podcast

Trending: The new fight for land rights

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In Malaysian Borneo, indigenous people have struggled for land rights against companies and the state. Using new mapping technology, communities in Borneo’s rainforests are racing to prove their claims. We explore how technology and social media are being used and misused to shift the balance of power.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We lost our humanity. We lost our dignity. We got punished for something we did not do.

0:07.0

Amazing sports stories from the BBC World Service tells the story of the Black 14.

0:12.0

Our young lives were flipped upside down. Search for amazing sports

0:15.8

stories wherever you get your BBC podcasts. My name is Michael Marie Job. I come from the Knya tribes.

0:27.0

Michael Jock is an indigenous leader in Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo

0:31.0

and his family have lived in the rainforest Balaga River region for generations.

0:35.6

I know where my father's land is, but I know where on which stream, on which river, my

0:41.7

parent farm.

0:43.0

So in order to recognize that, basically what they do is,

0:47.2

besides building a small heart on the land,

0:50.6

they were plant trees. For example, fruit trees like Durian, Ram Bhutan, and any other fruit trees that can last.

0:59.3

But in recent years, indigenous people like Michael have struggled to defend themselves against timber and palm oil companies trying to turn them off their traditional land.

1:08.0

Now, Michael is fighting back. Modern technology is allowing his community to map

1:16.5

their indigenous land for the first time.

1:20.8

The new technology with drones or even the satellite just make life much easier for us.

1:29.0

We locate the logging and all palms or wherever mountains or very important location historical

1:39.3

place where we cannot reach.

1:42.8

And activists are finding new sources of support on social media.

1:46.5

But the forces they're up against are fighting back, finding new ways of their own to try and

1:54.7

gain control of the narrative.

1:56.5

Whether they're privately hired by the companies or whether they're stack actors,

2:01.9

the output is the same. Their role is basically to

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