Logging row: RimbaWatch urges police to free Orang Asli protester

Environmentalist group RimbaWatch wants police to urgently release an Orang Asli from Kampung Ganoh, Pahang, said to have been arrested after a confrontation with a representative from a logging company.

Supported by 10 other civil society organisations, RimbaWatch said surveyors allegedly representing the company had on July 3 attempted to enter Kampung Ganoh to objections from the local Orang Asli community.

The village is where the proposed 297-ha logging site falls within...