Court grants Orang Asli villagers injunction against Kelantan govt

A court order has temporarily barred the Kelantan government and a list of mining, logging and plantation companies from entering a patch of jungle in Gua Musang, that the Orang Asli community there claimed as ancestral land.

This morning, Kota Bahru High Court judge Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh granted the injunction sought by Kampung Kelaik folk.

The Temiar village comprises about 200 people and is represented...