Ba Kelalan blockade dismantled, no arrests


Desmond Davidson

Police, soldiers and Ba Kelalan community leaders watch as a backhoe loader removes the blockade. – Pic courtesy of Ba Kelalan assemblyman Baru Bian, May 3, 2017.

ATTEMPTS by villagers in the remote highland settlement of Ba Kelalan in Sarawak to choke off the food supply to their Indonesian neighbours just across the border in Kalimantan have come to a quick end.

Tempers, however, are reportedly still simmering as a police and army team moved in yesterday afternoon to dismantle the day-old barricade some villagers had erected on the only road to the border.


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