The Land We Lost: Native Customary Rights (NCR) and Monoculture Plantations in Sarawak

This publication looks into how systemic poor governance on matters pertaining to indigenous peoples, land and forests in Sarawak has created adverse environmental and social impacts on indigenous communities affected by large scale oil palm plantations. The project seeks to document patterns of encroachment on indigenous customary territories in Sarawak and to subsequently demonstrate their linkages with systemic poor governance conditions. It is hoped that this effort is able to verify that violations of the indigenous customary land rights in Sarawak are indeed enabled by its governance system.