Kg Kelaik folk's bid to stop encroachment on 'ancestral land' faces setback

The Court of Appeal yesterday upheld the decision of the High Court in Kota Bharu not to stop several companies’ operations in a patch of jungle in Gua Musang, Kelantan, which a group of Orang Asli appellants claim encroached on their ancestral land.

The Temiar villagers from Kampung Kelaik had sought an injunction to stop further encroachment of the land by a collection of mining, logging and plantation companies that received the Kelantan government’s approval to operate on the land.

This is pending the settlement of a legal dispute...