2024-04-17
17 分钟My name is Michael Maring Jock.
I come from the Kenya tribes.
Michael Jock is an indigenous leader in Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo, and his family have lived in the rainforest Balaga river region for generations.
I know where my father's land is, but I know where on which stream, on which river my parents farm.
So in order to recognize that basically what they do is beside building a small hut on the land, they will plant trees, for example, fruit trees like durian, rambutan, and any other fruit trees that can last.
But in recent years, indigenous people like Michael have struggled to defend themselves against timber and palm oil companies trying to turn them off their traditional land.
Now Michael is fighting back.
Modern technology is allowing his community to map their indigenous land for the first time.
The new technology with drones or even the satellite just make life much easier for us.
We locate where the logging and all the oil palms or wherever mountains or very important location, historical place where we cannot reach.
And activists are finding new sources of support on social media.
But the forces they're up against are fighting back, finding new ways of their own to try and gain control of the narrative.
Whether they're privately hired by the companies or whether they're stack actors, the output is the same.
Their role is basically to paint or to provide the narrative of the state.
I'm Jackie Wakefield, and this is BBC Trending's Power series.
We're looking at how power is being used and misused online around the world.
This is a sound of protest as community members in the Buram region rally against the bulldozing of their longhouse, the centerpoint of the community.
Scenes like this have been taking place since the 1980s, when timber companies first came to villages like Michaels.
Then, in the mid-2000s, the drive for cheap, more sustainable fuel created a huge demand for palm oil, accelerating deforestation in Malaysia and Indonesia.
While palm oil has lifted some out of poverty, many locals have not seen payoffs and instead have witnessed only environmental destruction on their traditional land.