Report: corruption in Sarawak led to widespread deforestation, violations of indigenous rights

Mongabay: Report: corruption in Sarawak led to widespread deforestation, violations of indigenous rights Logging roads criss-cross Sarawak's forests. Photo courtesy of Google Earth. At the end of this month it will be 30 years since Abdul Taib Mahmud came to power in the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo. Environmentalists are using the occasion, along with new revelations, to highlight corruption and nepotism they say have characterized his regime. Chief Minister Taib and his decades-long......

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