River erosion threatens Long Ekang homes


Desmond Davidson

The damaged concrete footpath, abandoned homes and tilting electricity poles at the waterfront. – The Malaysian Insight pic, February 13, 2022.

ABOUT 600 residents of the Orang Ulu settlement in Long Ekang, deep in Baram, Sarawak, are living in fear that one day their longhouses will slip into the murky waters of the Baram River.

Severe erosion of a 3.5km stretch of the bank fronting the settlement in the last two decades has left one of the four longhouses there, the 10-door Kenyah longhouse Uma Kaeng, a mere 3m from the riverbank.


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