03-07-2025
Telang Usan blockade: Penan duo released on bond
(Front, from second left) Abun and his two clients and their family members are pictured outside the court following their release from remand.
MIRI (July 3): Two Penan men under remand for allegedly obstructing Sarawak Forest Department (SFD) officers from discharging their duties last week were released on bond by the Magistrates' Court today.
Senior Assistant Registrar Mohammad Helmi Ahmad Jani issued the order following an application by a prosecuting officer from the SFD.
In the application, the prosecuting officer requested that the pair, aged 52 and 57, be released on SFD bond pending further instructions from the State Attorney-General's Chambers.
They were arrested by police on June 28 and remanded for four days until today.
The case is being investigated further under Section 103(1) of the Forestry Ordinance 2015 (Chapter 71) for obstructing or interfering with forest officers, police or public servants in the course of their official duties.
They are also being investigated under Section 26 of the same Ordinance for offences relating to encroachment on a forest reserve or protected forest.
Both men were represented by lawyer Abun Sui Anyit.
Meanwhile, SFD in a statement said the investigation papers will be submitted to the State Attorney-General for further action.
The department had in an earlier statement said the two men were among individuals who had set up a blockade around Telang Usan and had used violence against SFD enforcement personnel by abusing and injuring them during the course of them carrying out their duties. blockade miri Penan Telang Usan
