KUCHING: Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem has warned investors against encroaching onto state and communal land to develop any sort of plantation prior to getting approval from the Sarawak Land and Survey Department.
He said he had instructed the Sarawak Land and Survey Department to monitor such activities and take immediate action against these investors.
Adenan was asked for his comment at a news conference yesterday on the investors who cleared state and communal land and cultivated oil palm even before their application for the land was approved by the relevant authority.
On another matter, the chief minister also said that he had instructed the Sarawak Forest Department to check on alleged illegal logging in the forest near the Bengoh Resettlement Scheme (BRS) and Kampung Danu in Penrissen, about 50 km from here.
Villagers of nearby Kampung Semadang had claimed to have seen several lorries passing through their village after 5 pm with sawn timber believed to be from the forest near BRS or Kampung Danu.
On oil palm fruits, Adenan said no mill was allowed to buy fruits from unlicensed sellers, stolen fruits or fruits harvested from oil palm cultivated illegally on government land. — BERNAMA