This is heartbreaking. When will humans ever learn? This is not progress if we are simultaneously destroying rhe environment and destabilizing communities. Sending my love to all these families.. With love from South Africa
It's a quite heart-breaking how these humble and genuine people are struggling to save their lives, holy homeland and culture. I hope they will find a widespread support from the people in Malaysia and the government itself against the greed, money and corruption.
I live in the neighbouring state of Sabah..both our states are on Borneo Island. Sad to see people being displaced, habitats destroyed, cultures sometimes lost due to modernity. I'm all for development, but not to the detriment of people, especially natives. We see it happening everywhere, no exception here. Not all development is good, nor is it all bad. There should be a balance, but I've seem more destruction and hardship in recent times. I will watch this documentary to the end, thank you for bringing this story to the world. My late husband attended a short course at Deutsche Welle in the 90s.
@GOSWK TV Firstly, thats disingenuous and oversimplifying. Secondly, YOU don't know how statistics work. It's thanks to the tireless efforts of people on the ground , fighting in courts and encouraging people to take up the fight for conservation that the forests isn't 100% gone yet.
@GOSWK TV Irony is obviously lost on you. No idea where you cherry picked '90%', but go ahead. You're the one clowning yourself. Typing in all CAPS doesn't make your comment any more legitimate or authoritative. Trust me kid, I'll stay in school, since there is no shortage of idiots outside like you.
Although it puts these people in danger by telling these logging companies that there is so few of them and only armed with poisonous arrows. Everywhere journalist do that kind of journalism, as in Salvador and else where, Companies send armed mercenaries to complete the genocide...You tell them how many they are, how desperate they are, where they are and they have no one to protect them. That's how Modern world has stolen the land everywhere in the world with the help of newspapers always ready to sell their news papers made of timber... lots of rain forest lost and their people sacrificed ✨🎡✨🐱🐉
Sweet potatoes 🍠, and Quinoa and Amaranthe 🌾🍃, plants and quinoa and amaranth, and pulses, like lentils and beans. ✅❤️😬🦷💪. Very healthy. Vegans have 4% cancer and that’s it. We’ve got flat teeth. Long long stomachs. Animal foods is heart attacks and cancer and high blood pressure, fat deposits clog your arteries... 51% death rate !!! Scientific fact.
Thank you for this. Being part of one of many small tribes in Sarawak, its amazing to watch and know that there are still some living the lifestyle of our ancestors.
@@yamyams94 thank you❤️, it is. And because of the Rona, most of us working in the city feel so homesick not being able to go home especially during festive season 😭
I am a person of white english heritage living on Kabi Kabi land in Australia. My ancestors in Europe and England have been very sick for tens of thousands of years... raping the children and women and men killing each other as part of a sickness which leaves children insecure and people unable to return home to their healthy connection with each other and with whatever were their more sustained and sustainable homelands... with each war, rape, conception out of place without welcome,... with each stab of colonisation more and more insecurity and unwelcome and force upon individuals and groups brought more of this sick addiction and ignorance and loss of life being together happy and knowing and havign and being enough. I am so sorry this sickness is spreading like a cancer across the world and has come to your ancestral land.. the sickness will kill all who are addicted to it's poison.... and the land will return to provide return to better health again. I am so sorry for all the animals and humans, in places like Burma and Australia and Central Americas and Africa who are still trying to just live happy with what they have and have learned. Modern humanity is addicted humanity... without a home. Please lets learn to respect the lands, waters, animals, spirits and learn from those who still know and respect those who still know. I respect the Dayaks, the Kelabits, the Kabi Kabi... all the naked and unashamed to be naked, al those with wisdom most people have lost... all those forced to watch so much horror, madness and destruction of everything that we need to simply live... We do not need all the other crap... all the crap to sicken and pollute and profit. Profit = loss... tragedy beyond bearing.... humanity cannot bear this, other lives cannot bear this... and the humans will break as we break the trees and the life.. Respect to all people still in the forests on boats, on rivers and seas.... don't let anyone take more homes and more lives! respect!
The guys feeding each other at 31:00 is probably my favourite moment, it just seems so kind and it reflects the tightly knit nature of their community. Just bros being bros
@@MollyMaidParkCities Is it selfish of the western world to keep destroying their land for western world selfishness, consumerism, greed and money ? Not to mention the wasteful generation we live in. You sound very selfish and self absorbed.
21:07 Imagine how cozy and relaxing it would be to be there. No tech, no notifications sounding off all the time, no news from the outside world, no politics, no TV, nothing. Serene isolation.
As a native Filipino speaker (both in Tagalog and Bisaya), I could pick up many similar words from the nomad's language. We can't deny that our ancestors are from the same people before the Spaniards and Americans colonized the Philippines. Another great documentary from DW.
@@commander1044 sad being you. I looked up Sarawak and with all that deforestation money, your country can't provide roads, proper schools, and electrical grids. Even the healthcare sucks.
@@abderrahimmark im not talking about repsonsibility, im saying indeginous people in indonesia are treated far worse the powerful send their thugs to beat them up.
They could try eco tourism to earn some income. Loss is doing that, they offer tree houses, Zipliing, tracking trails etc. It's a win win situation, eco tourists can learn about their culture, be with nature and destress in the jungle. Same thing happens at the Sahara, Wadi Rum in Jordan.
@@realcanadiangirl64 - Sweet potatoes 🍠, and Quinoa and Amaranthe 🌾🍃, plants and quinoa and amaranth, and pulses, like lentils and beans. ✅❤️😬🦷💪. Very healthy. Vegans have 4% cancer and that’s it. We’ve got flat teeth. Long long stomachs. Animal foods is heart attacks and cancer and high blood pressure, fat deposits clog your arteries... 51% death rate !!! Scientific fact.....
why are you on youtube watching videos of your homeland instead of living out there and protecting it? Because you wanted a job. from here on out were expecting you to stop saying such stupid things
@@davidanalyst671 we're*. yes the classic can't have 1 whilst doing the other argument, very solid. Have we searched this forest before hacking it down? 130 million years of evolution in there. Kinda hard to replicate this. There are 1000s of plants buried in that forest, which u won't find anywhere else. N we're just hacking away all for more useless paper.
6:03, curious as to why one of the last forest nomads would have the need for a wrist watch. I don't question the utility of a fanny pack (3:52), but what use is a wrist watch in the middle of the forest?
I'm from BORNEO.Thanks for this documentary.Hope this story can wake up people all around the world how important animal and jungle would be in our next generations. Protect our jungle from gone forever.
I've driven through the plantations before and it's essentially a desert: only one plant lives there, barely anything else can survive. It's desolate and the biggest reason me and my family refuse to buy products that use palm oil if we have alternatives. Furthermore the logging companies will resort to burning wood that they don't consider fit for sale since it's cheaper than moving it away which not only creates large amounts of greenhouse gases but pollutes the air.
large plantations are quite literally a desert, but a green one. a desert where the death of species occurs because of human action, not the environment around them
@@danang324 Desert in his sentence means no diversity, only one thing where ever you look. Just like a desert where everywhere you look you can only see sand. In that sense he means everywhere you look its only palm oil trees hence like a desert. In this context it doesnt mean he saw padang pasir.
We need to gather people and discuss about sustainable life and social equality . Oftentimes people like us are rare in the industrial civilization . Feel lonely
All of our social and political economic,environmental issues are the cost of sedentary agricultural civilization ,capitalism ,colonization ( globalization).
Alas the effect of christianism will surely create division among them. Their beliefs and tradition will be erased deliberately their young adults will slowly lost respect their elders wisdom, customary laws and traditions. Surely it will come to pass for I myself was a witness of western world view against the traditional view of how interconnected the life is in our world.
As i was growing up in North Borneo, i have witnessed the deforestation right in front of my eyes. Beautiful hills full of big trees and wild animals slowly filled with palm oil trees. During the night, big trucks carried big tree logs will drive through the roads. It was all interconnected with a logging/timber / O&G / palm oil company, corruptions, etc. These companies work all together to profits the natural resources of Borneo states. I cried when i saw there is no longer forest nor big trees in some part of Borneo. As part of indigenous / Kadazan tribes, being in nature is always special and it is running in our blood. There was a long history that can be traced back to our ancestor. How we used to survive by hunting for food. As modernization and education happen, the lifestyle rapidly changes. As much as i love living with current modern lifestyle, we still taught to live humble and remember where we come from; to respect the nature, culture and the way of living. This is a very bittersweet documentary...
@Clarice. just human greed is destroying the forest. As was said ,sharing is a survival technique, greed doesn't share , it will lose in the end , I just hope it wont destroy us all.
Yup I am also grew up in North Borneo and belong to Rungus tribes, when holidays season i will go back to my hometown but along the way from airport to village all you can see is palm trees hundreds thousands kilometres...
I cry with you. I see the same in Australia since 1788. Mad modern profit thinking humans sick and addicted to homelessness and no culture because home has been lost 1, 5, 100, 1000 generations ago.
This is the life I want , simple , in nature, not in city, no technology, I am tired of city . I love Malaysia so much ！ No where in the world you can better relax than in Malaysia !
... unless you are the family with the disabled son, and with an easily cured infection. Unless you are living on sago starch, missing the nutrients for life. Unless your back is degenerating, and your hips, feet, knees, shoulders, neck and hands are in constant pain. Many in our own world would live hard lives and die hard, early deaths without the support of our "evil" modernity. Go then, Iulia, and live your dream. You'll find all too soon that it isn't much to live by; nor is it very good to die by. And you will die by it, crying for the things of life that you have lost. You have no clue about the value of clear,cold water from a source without a dead animal or feces in it. Or the value of simple things, like a single ice cold beer.
I wouldn't call what we're doing to the planet progress. The only things progressing in this day in age is instagram filter, ass implants and 5G..... the rest is all being destroyed to supply these pointless things
The government of Borneo needs 2 do something about preserving the knowledge, language and culture of the people who live in the jungles that are their home and protect the rainforests. If the loggers get their way it will be gone forever and its value is truly priceless and cannot be replaced with money.
It is the land of the people and cultures who respect it and know how to live with it.. and the waters, skies, animals .. the rest of us are sick and killing life within, beyond and between us.
Protect all Jungles, forests, flora and fauna. Protect our mother earth and nature. May all our ancestors enlightened all of us to love our mother earth.
Really like these documentaries to see how other’s still live in this world. If they are happy there, let them be, they are not hurting anyone. Seeing all those tree’s cut down for money makes me sad, civilisation doesn’t have to cost other’s happiness and land. I wish them all the best & they are not endangered.
Thank God for these people trying to save their rainforest. This is depressing thanks for filming this. The word needs to get out before these animals go extinct and these peoples traditions.
I think its Chicken pox. One of the syptoms are blisters and during the late stage the fluid-filled blisters would break and leak. Which the father said looks like a wax.
7.30/42.25 I have total respect for this man. He wont bow to the pressure to sell his land. A true beacon of light. May the Divine' powers continue to bless him and his family, for generations to come.
Their way of life is so incredibly interesting. It’s so heart destroying to see how greed can affect people’s lives. Why can’t green peace step in? I wish some one influential could fight for their behalf.
Thanks DW do good work, couldn't find any locals to narrate this documentary ?, Malaysia has lots of smart people, we're not living in the old world now🤔
@Imhotep Genius any corporation that doesn't respect human rights and nature. a corporation that seeks only its benefits, it doesn't matter weather its Eastern or Western.
Once again this is an excellent documentary.The problem with palm oil plantation is that it take a large area because of the big Investment from the big company.I support the development of the economy but it must be careful because of the environmental effect
Dayak people has been pushed away in Indonesia as well, tribal wars and micro-economic empowerment becomes their means to retain their homeland, however in Indonesia the regime is dynamic and change for better at faster rate, unlike Malaysia. Without recognizable seat on the government, Malaysia's Dayak may face a much tougher times. It is ridiculous to force the native indigenous people of Malaysian Dayak to prove residency and land ownership prior to 1958... Thanks DW! Please to also cover the Indonesian side of similar ethnic...
They’re camp site. I had experience the life like that before back in the Philippines. It was where my grandpaps house. His house was like that simple in the forrest I don’t complain when going there. 🥺😢
I have pictures of some of the indigenous people over a hundred years ago that some of my relative had taken. I saved them from being ruined when I was about 7 years old and kept them in a toybox my dad made me since 1967.
@@necessaryevil455 me myself is bidayuh from sarawak..and i know a lot about borneo people..I'm always fascinate about it..i never see the old picture from personal collection. i would love to see it if u don't mind snap and email it to me.
Their nomad way of living is exactly the same as our tribe..in the interior part of Sabah..still exists as of now but most of the culture, language is slowly disappeared. Our small village now is compacted by estates surrounding,..very little land for agriculture..vast land has been eaten and swollen by large rich tycoons. Very sad..
I hear so much Filipino words in their language…I remember my grandma had nose flutes& blow guns made from bamboo, she had calendar with tribal people from Borneo…my grandma used to tell me that they’re my culture & I always thought that they were Filipinos growing up…maybe they are or maybe Filipino tribes share the same or similar culture’s..they are nomadic so maybe they built a boat and traveled to the Philippines as well. I have so many questions I want to ask my grandma but she’s old and she doesn’t talk much anymore..she’ll answer yes or no questions and say hi to me maybe 1-3x a month and it makes me really sad when I reminisce about how she used to be..I wish I could turn back time so I can 100% enjoy her stories and knowledge she has and would share with me
My fellow indigenous people. Its sad to see the hungry timber companies destroying the forest. We Dayak Bidayuh was lucky to be assimilate into the modernity quite early but we still have our native land, registered under our name.
Do you know where I can find more info on what is going on in Sarawak / land grabbing? Seems not easy to find out at all what is going on in these remote areas. …
The high price of canola oil means palm oil planting will go on at an exponential level. Usually crashing the canola market slong eith the palm oil market.
Bruno Manser been fighting for Penan people long time ago and he's not even a Malaysian. And here we are, just be able to watch the state rulers of Sabah and Sarawak, allowing this happening for the sake of their pockets. We need help to save the precious jungle .
This is heartbreaking. When will humans ever learn? This is not progress if we are simultaneously destroying rhe environment and destabilizing communities. Sending my love to all these families.. With love from South Africa
says the one who has a wooden table
The greed of capitalism will ripped them off
It's not is its the corporations.... They have to be ANNIHILATED
@Nina Patel Don't forgo British East India Company and Queen Victoria and the Jewel in the Crown.
@Nina Patel lol its taib mahmud destroy our forest
It's a quite heart-breaking how these humble and genuine people are struggling to save their lives, holy homeland and culture. I hope they will find a widespread support from the people in Malaysia and the government itself against the greed, money and corruption.
Stop eating cookies and all other products made with palm oil
It doesn't matter regardless the ones in favor of what's happening have all the fuckin money!!!
I live in the neighbouring state of Sabah..both our states are on Borneo Island. Sad to see people being displaced, habitats destroyed, cultures sometimes lost due to modernity. I'm all for development, but not to the detriment of people, especially natives. We see it happening everywhere, no exception here.
Not all development is good, nor is it all bad. There should be a balance, but I've seem more destruction and hardship in recent times.
I will watch this documentary to the end, thank you for bringing this story to the world. My late husband attended a short course at Deutsche Welle in the 90s.
@GOSWK TV Firstly, thats disingenuous and oversimplifying. Secondly, YOU don't know how statistics work. It's thanks to the tireless efforts of people on the ground , fighting in courts and encouraging people to take up the fight for conservation that the forests isn't 100% gone yet.
@GOSWK TV Irony is obviously lost on you. No idea where you cherry picked '90%', but go ahead. You're the one clowning yourself. Typing in all CAPS doesn't make your comment any more legitimate or authoritative. Trust me kid, I'll stay in school, since there is no shortage of idiots outside like you.
I'm a kadazan from a neighboring state, really appreciate you making this doc about the people in sarawak
The only thing i know about kadazans is that we plant rice, i dont know much about my own history.
Did you know that kadazan and dusun is same but not same?
Now this is what I call journalism
Indeed
@alpha TN k
Although it puts these people in danger by telling these logging companies that there is so few of them and only armed with poisonous arrows. Everywhere journalist do that kind of journalism, as in Salvador and else where, Companies send armed mercenaries to complete the genocide...You tell them how many they are, how desperate they are, where they are and they have no one to protect them. That's how Modern world has stolen the land everywhere in the world with the help of newspapers always ready to sell their news papers made of timber... lots of rain forest lost and their people sacrificed ✨🎡✨🐱🐉
It is a documentary first.
Second, they should have contacted the officials and asked their responses.
Sweet potatoes 🍠, and Quinoa and Amaranthe 🌾🍃, plants and quinoa and amaranth, and pulses, like lentils and beans. ✅❤️😬🦷💪. Very healthy. Vegans have 4% cancer and that’s it. We’ve got flat teeth. Long long stomachs.
Animal foods is heart attacks and cancer and high blood pressure, fat deposits clog your arteries... 51% death rate !!! Scientific fact.
Thank you for this. Being part of one of many small tribes in Sarawak, its amazing to watch and know that there are still some living the lifestyle of our ancestors.
It's so beautiful there
@@yamyams94 thank you❤️, it is. And because of the Rona, most of us working in the city feel so homesick not being able to go home especially during festive season 😭
That will also disappear.due to greed.
I hope your beautiful place will survive the greed epidemic
Hope Penan folks would create some sort of eco tourism into their lands. We would love to see and support their struggle
I'm Dayak from East Malaysia, and i hate when saw this happen to my ancestral land!
Same here😞
I am a person of white english heritage living on Kabi Kabi land in Australia. My ancestors in Europe and England have been very sick for tens of thousands of years... raping the children and women and men killing each other as part of a sickness which leaves children insecure and people unable to return home to their healthy connection with each other and with whatever were their more sustained and sustainable homelands... with each war, rape, conception out of place without welcome,... with each stab of colonisation more and more insecurity and unwelcome and force upon individuals and groups brought more of this sick addiction and ignorance and loss of life being together happy and knowing and havign and being enough. I am so sorry this sickness is spreading like a cancer across the world and has come to your ancestral land.. the sickness will kill all who are addicted to it's poison.... and the land will return to provide return to better health again. I am so sorry for all the animals and humans, in places like Burma and Australia and Central Americas and Africa who are still trying to just live happy with what they have and have learned. Modern humanity is addicted humanity... without a home. Please lets learn to respect the lands, waters, animals, spirits and learn from those who still know and respect those who still know. I respect the Dayaks, the Kelabits, the Kabi Kabi... all the naked and unashamed to be naked, al those with wisdom most people have lost... all those forced to watch so much horror, madness and destruction of everything that we need to simply live... We do not need all the other crap... all the crap to sicken and pollute and profit. Profit = loss... tragedy beyond bearing.... humanity cannot bear this, other lives cannot bear this... and the humans will break as we break the trees and the life.. Respect to all people still in the forests on boats, on rivers and seas.... don't let anyone take more homes and more lives! respect!
yeah.. without development, you might be still out there living like them. if you want to live like them, you know what you have to do
@RUclips Speech agree with you mate.
United Kingdom of Borneo
The guys feeding each other at 31:00 is probably my favourite moment, it just seems so kind and it reflects the tightly knit nature of their community. Just bros being bros
Its called sharing
animals do that too.
When a documentary starts with the call of the wild........one must sit down and watch !
I’m torn. Is it selfish for the native people to hog resources from the timber companies who will service millions of people..? 🧐
@@MollyMaidParkCities Is it selfish of the western world to keep destroying their land for western world selfishness, consumerism, greed and money ? Not to mention the wasteful generation we live in. You sound very selfish and self absorbed.
@@wakeandbakewithmaryjane1767 not allowed to ask questions? How tolerant. I agree with you FYI. Don’t have to be a bitch about it
Fart
Yeah.
This is such a bittersweet documentary.
21:07 Imagine how cozy and relaxing it would be to be there. No tech, no notifications sounding off all the time, no news from the outside world, no politics, no TV, nothing. Serene isolation.
True simple peace
As a native Filipino speaker (both in Tagalog and Bisaya), I could pick up many similar words from the nomad's language. We can't deny that our ancestors are from the same people before the Spaniards and Americans colonized the Philippines. Another great documentary from DW.
our both come from Austronesian ancestors, my friend,.
dont let us disturb your peace,
Oo yung gubat natin mas sira na kaysa sa Gubat ng Taga sarawak. Kakainis!!!
This is heartbreaking... Thanks DW Documentary for this wonderful documentary.
Excellent coverage of this gross problem. Bravo Carsten!
Tainted wealth has no lasting value, but right living can save your life.
Stand your ground good people!!! Thank you DW Documentary...
Sometimes DW get it wrong but to be fair this documentary was good.
The government of Malaysia should be held responsible for allowing and encouraging this destruction.
Yeah right..They should stop developing that state and play deaf when the people cried foul for progress.
@@commander1044 sad being you. I looked up Sarawak and with all that deforestation money, your country can't provide roads, proper schools, and electrical grids. Even the healthcare sucks.
indonesia and brazil are way worse
Hold responsible by who?
@@abderrahimmark im not talking about repsonsibility, im saying indeginous people in indonesia are treated far worse the powerful send their thugs to beat them up.
Great documentary, I always enjoy learning about cultures that are completely different than my own. Thank you DW keep up the great content!
Hi @Cleb Felm! Thank you for watching and your positive feedback. We're glad you like our content :)
Every Malaysians should watch this, especially the younger generations.
nope theyre busy playing tik tok and pubg hanging out in starbucks, they wont bother trust me.
Watch then nothing happen... Why watch it.
Borneo pp to be exact
They could try eco tourism to earn some income. Loss is doing that, they offer tree houses, Zipliing, tracking trails etc. It's a win win situation, eco tourists can learn about their culture, be with nature and destress in the jungle. Same thing happens at the Sahara, Wadi Rum in Jordan.
"What good is a polluted river?" Exactly! Do we really need to use these rainforest timber?? Thank you for this great documentary.
That question also struck me as very profound
Indonesia
Same thing as ruining the palm forests for palm oil!
@@realcanadiangirl64 - Sweet potatoes 🍠, and Quinoa and Amaranthe 🌾🍃, plants and quinoa and amaranth, and pulses, like lentils and beans. ✅❤️😬🦷💪. Very healthy. Vegans have 4% cancer and that’s it. We’ve got flat teeth. Long long stomachs.
Animal foods is heart attacks and cancer and high blood pressure, fat deposits clog your arteries... 51% death rate !!! Scientific fact.....
Yup.
ahhh my homeland.beautiful rainforest,ruined by greed and corruption.
Hi how's is life?? Happy new year
why are you on youtube watching videos of your homeland instead of living out there and protecting it? Because you wanted a job. from here on out were expecting you to stop saying such stupid things
@@davidanalyst671 we're*. yes the classic can't have 1 whilst doing the other argument, very solid. Have we searched this forest before hacking it down? 130 million years of evolution in there. Kinda hard to replicate this. There are 1000s of plants buried in that forest, which u won't find anywhere else. N we're just hacking away all for more useless paper.
@@joshlewis575 *were
@@davidanalyst671 easier said than done
6:03, curious as to why one of the last forest nomads would have the need for a wrist watch. I don't question the utility of a fanny pack (3:52), but what use is a wrist watch in the middle of the forest?
They want modernity but in terms of cash. They cannot prove they ownership because others settled there first.
Also they are not nomadic anymore.
ive suddenly realised where all that beautiful wood,that adorns our homes,offices,courtrooms,hospitals,churches,schools in europe , comes from.
I live here in the island of Borneo. And I'm n one of the tribe.
Stay strong can you take me to this place. If I visit in January 2022.
I'm from BORNEO.Thanks for this documentary.Hope this story can wake up people all around the world how important animal and jungle would be in our next generations. Protect our jungle from gone forever.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!
Hi Jemry can you take me to penan tribe place. I'm from India I like to see them.
I've driven through the plantations before and it's essentially a desert: only one plant lives there, barely anything else can survive. It's desolate and the biggest reason me and my family refuse to buy products that use palm oil if we have alternatives.
Furthermore the logging companies will resort to burning wood that they don't consider fit for sale since it's cheaper than moving it away which not only creates large amounts of greenhouse gases but pollutes the air.
large plantations are quite literally a desert, but a green one. a desert where the death of species occurs because of human action, not the environment around them
@@danang324 Desert in his sentence means no diversity, only one thing where ever you look.
Just like a desert where everywhere you look you can only see sand. In that sense he means everywhere you look its only palm oil trees hence like a desert.
In this context it doesnt mean he saw padang pasir.
What is the alternative?
Soybean oil or sunflower oil also destroy the environment. Olive oil maybe a good choice, but its expensive.
We need to gather people and discuss about sustainable life and social equality . Oftentimes people like us are rare in the industrial civilization . Feel lonely
All of our social and political economic,environmental issues are the cost of sedentary agricultural civilization ,capitalism ,colonization ( globalization).
Jesus bless the Penan People. They are the true protector of the forest.
Amen
You're ironic? In Africa, missionaries gave us the Bible but took our land
Your name reminds me of my late uncle, Langit Bit. Penan people are simple-minded but they are very thoughtful of the forest.
Alas the effect of christianism will surely create division among them. Their beliefs and tradition will be erased deliberately their young adults will slowly lost respect their elders wisdom, customary laws and traditions. Surely it will come to pass for I myself was a witness of western world view against the traditional view of how interconnected the life is in our world.
@GOSWK TV shut up jihadist
As i was growing up in North Borneo, i have witnessed the deforestation right in front of my eyes. Beautiful hills full of big trees and wild animals slowly filled with palm oil trees. During the night, big trucks carried big tree logs will drive through the roads. It was all interconnected with a logging/timber / O&G / palm oil company, corruptions, etc. These companies work all together to profits the natural resources of Borneo states. I cried when i saw there is no longer forest nor big trees in some part of Borneo.
As part of indigenous / Kadazan tribes, being in nature is always special and it is running in our blood. There was a long history that can be traced back to our ancestor. How we used to survive by hunting for food. As modernization and education happen, the lifestyle rapidly changes. As much as i love living with current modern lifestyle, we still taught to live humble and remember where we come from; to respect the nature, culture and the way of living.
This is a very bittersweet documentary...
@Clarice. just human greed is destroying the forest. As was said ,sharing is a survival technique, greed doesn't share , it will lose in the end , I just hope it wont destroy us all.
Yup I am also grew up in North Borneo and belong to Rungus tribes, when holidays season i will go back to my hometown but along the way from airport to village all you can see is palm trees hundreds thousands kilometres...
I cry with you. I see the same in Australia since 1788. Mad modern profit thinking humans sick and addicted to homelessness and no culture because home has been lost 1, 5, 100, 1000 generations ago.
Excess Kills.
Scarcity is Wisdom.
@Prison Mike no corruption destroy borneo
This is the life I want , simple , in nature, not in city, no technology, I am tired of city . I love Malaysia so much ！ No where in the world you can better relax than in Malaysia !
... unless you are the family with the disabled son, and with an easily cured infection. Unless you are living on sago starch, missing the nutrients for life. Unless your back is degenerating, and your hips, feet, knees, shoulders, neck and hands are in constant pain. Many in our own world would live hard lives and die hard, early deaths without the support of our "evil" modernity. Go then, Iulia, and live your dream. You'll find all too soon that it isn't much to live by; nor is it very good to die by. And you will die by it, crying for the things of life that you have lost. You have no clue about the value of clear,cold water from a source without a dead animal or feces in it. Or the value of simple things, like a single ice cold beer.
Shows the horrible and sad price and reality of progress
Progress only towards doom of our planet
I wouldn't call what we're doing to the planet progress. The only things progressing in this day in age is instagram filter, ass implants and 5G..... the rest is all being destroyed to supply these pointless things
you really meant capitalism and multinational companies. You're welcome.
Yeah.
We can go on the moon but we can't find an alternative for palm oil... DW thanks for the high quality documentary as always!
you mean alternative for hyper-capitalism
If palm oil is more sustainable why does it need more land🤔
@@tonyfubu Exactly. there's no alternatives for money and greed
@@Noname-dr1jm genius
@@Noname-dr1jm because Europe always make troubles while we selling crude palm oil. If they wont buy, its ok. It's our forest not yours.
This makes me depressed
Then you should go and help them
dont watch it, out of sight, out of your mind
I love how they always explain with hand gestures
their vocabulary is not as extended yet, they cry with the animals,
@@lunafringe10 no we just like explaining things with our hands because you can easily form it to be a universal languange
I live in the neighboring state but I heard very little about these people and their struggle. Thank you for the documentary
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Thank you DW
For. 💖
Thanks for the documentary
Great documentary!
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@@DWDocumentary this is not as bad as nazi germany in the past that killed many people
The government of Borneo needs 2 do something about preserving the knowledge, language and culture of the people who live in the jungles that are their home and protect the rainforests. If the loggers get their way it will be gone forever and its value is truly priceless and cannot be replaced with money.
Give there land Back to the people of Forest you now it there’s land.
It is the land of the people and cultures who respect it and know how to live with it.. and the waters, skies, animals .. the rest of us are sick and killing life within, beyond and between us.
How do you define progress if it comes with all these problems, especially where progress is a consequence of greed?
Thank you DW...
Love from South Africa 🤗
you could easily say that what is happening today to these people happened to the people of SA from 1652 - 1990s
Pisang : banana
The man has grandchildren yet not a single grey hair on his head
Now thats life!
Protect all Jungles, forests, flora and fauna.
Protect our mother earth and nature.
May all our ancestors enlightened all of us to love our mother earth.
Very good documentary,I love this.Thank you so much for showing your Video tape.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment, Norman!
Watching from Bangalore, India
Watching from Brahmapur odisha
It good to watch all this documentary,this good to watch different kind of documentary from different kind of country.Thank you for your kindness.
Mind blowing documentary. Feel sad for the menang communities, hope & pray , that they will get JUSTICE 🙏 LOVE FROM KOLKATA (INDIA)
SAVE THE FOREST, SAVE OUR TRADITIONAL CULTURE IDENTITY. THANKS FOR DW DOCUMANENTARY FOR THIS EDUCATIONAL VIDEO/ SALAMAT KADIYAW!
Someday they will realize how priceless of the rainforest which they were destroyed today.
Great story. Learned a lot, i stand with them and hope the Malaysian government can protect them
It's all about the money
Really like these documentaries to see how other’s still live in this world. If they are happy there, let them be, they are not hurting anyone. Seeing all those tree’s cut down for money makes me sad, civilisation doesn’t have to cost other’s happiness and land. I wish them all the best & they are not endangered.
Excellent!
Thank God for these people trying to save their rainforest. This is depressing thanks for filming this. The word needs to get out before these animals go extinct and these peoples traditions.
My prayers and moral supports are with the fighters for forest conservation .
Forest conservationists run the tribes out.
13:40 does anyone knows about the disease that infected his child? it sounds horrible.
Cancer?? Wild guess.
I think its Chicken pox. One of the syptoms are blisters and during the late stage the fluid-filled blisters would break and leak. Which the father said looks like a wax.
@@aiman9088 so sad
Wow new documentary 🙂
Love this kind of DC 😍❤️👍
The people of the forest don't understand what is coming their way. So sad
7.30/42.25 I have total respect for this man. He wont bow to the pressure to sell his land. A true beacon of light.
May the Divine' powers continue to bless him and his family, for generations to come.
The forest is their pharmacy and market. I believe that.
Good to see this documentary but please provide some ingo in the description (year authors etc!)
Nice upload.
I'm from a Christian family , love this documentary , praise the lord , our savior will help his people who believe in him , .....Love from India .❤
Their way of life is so incredibly interesting. It’s so heart destroying to see how greed can affect people’s lives. Why can’t green peace step in?
I wish some one influential could fight for their behalf.
Thanks DW do good work, couldn't find any locals to narrate this documentary ?, Malaysia has lots of smart people, we're not living in the old world now🤔
what can I do to help them?
Not sure why is so hard to build a table for eating or cutting stuff?
7:28 - respect!
Big corporations must be stopped
@Imhotep Genius any corporation that doesn't respect human rights and nature. a corporation that seeks only its benefits, it doesn't matter weather its Eastern or Western.
You mean one of the most powerful person in Sarawak, taib corporation.
@Imhotep Geniusblame the west for your pathetic immorality. Typical
FYI : the land is under the state government . not federal government since three country have difference law ..
Interesting documentary . Cultures must be saved
Hi @Tahsin M., thanks for watching and commenting!
@@DWDocumentary pleasure,❤️
Once again this is an excellent documentary.The problem with palm oil plantation is that it take a large area because of the big Investment from the big company.I support the development of the economy but it must be careful because of the environmental effect
Thank you, I liked it.
Does anyone have an update on the situation in Sarawak now? This was made in 2021 I think?
God bless these people and their way of life. may they continue as they were till the end of time.
Stop buy Kitkat they bought palm oil from unsustainable sources
The world can be so cruel... Why can't we leave this peace loving people alone....
When money couldn't buy everything. Refreshing to see.
Go for it Penang people. You are the teachers to the world.
penan not penang. penag is an industrial island in peninsular malaysia :D
"The forest is a bank created by god" thats so true,
31:57, that 2 type fruit is very rare today. They taste sooooo damn good. I'm going angry if someone destroying the trees.
Keren bro
Dayak people has been pushed away in Indonesia as well, tribal wars and micro-economic empowerment becomes their means to retain their homeland, however in Indonesia the regime is dynamic and change for better at faster rate, unlike Malaysia. Without recognizable seat on the government, Malaysia's Dayak may face a much tougher times. It is ridiculous to force the native indigenous people of Malaysian Dayak to prove residency and land ownership prior to 1958... Thanks DW! Please to also cover the Indonesian side of similar ethnic...
They’re camp site. I had experience the life like that before back in the Philippines. It was where my grandpaps house. His house was like that simple in the forrest I don’t complain when going there. 🥺😢
EH SA PILIPINAS NGAYON WALA NANG GUBAT SIRA SIRA NA!!!
I have pictures of some of the indigenous people over a hundred years ago that some of my relative had taken. I saved them from being ruined when I was about 7 years old and kept them in a toybox my dad made me since 1967.
which indigenous people sir?
@@taiton2661 Form Borneo.
We have lots of tribes in the 2 Malaysian Borneon states. Do you know where the indigenous people are from?
@@ritakisil1669 That might take an expert that can tell by the way they look and dress.
@@necessaryevil455 me myself is bidayuh from sarawak..and i know a lot about borneo people..I'm always fascinate about it..i never see the old picture from personal collection. i would love to see it if u don't mind snap and email it to me.
So amazing story I love this documentary
This also happens in Indonesia
Don’t give up my brothers and sisters your land is forever money is gone in a day let no man take your land. God Bless
Wait till Exxon discovers oil there. Or some Bhumiputra discovers gold,
37:11 they watch an Indonesian tv station. This happens in North Kalimantan - Indonesia too, so sad
Sometimes reception is bad, even impossible, especially in hilly areas or deep in the interior.
Buka karena di kalimantan Utara tp tv satelit indonesia nyampe ke malaysia
wonderful documentary...hello from sabah...lets save our forest
Their forest is destroyed by timber companies & tribal traditions by christain missionaries, feel sorry for all indegenious people around the world.😭
Their nomad way of living is exactly the same as our tribe..in the interior part of Sabah..still exists as of now but most of the culture, language is slowly disappeared. Our small village now is compacted by estates surrounding,..very little land for agriculture..vast land has been eaten and swollen by large rich tycoons. Very sad..
I hear so much Filipino words in their language…I remember my grandma had nose flutes& blow guns made from bamboo, she had calendar with tribal people from Borneo…my grandma used to tell me that they’re my culture & I always thought that they were Filipinos growing up…maybe they are or maybe Filipino tribes share the same or similar culture’s..they are nomadic so maybe they built a boat and traveled to the Philippines as well. I have so many questions I want to ask my grandma but she’s old and she doesn’t talk much anymore..she’ll answer yes or no questions and say hi to me maybe 1-3x a month and it makes me really sad when I reminisce about how she used to be..I wish I could turn back time so I can 100% enjoy her stories and knowledge she has and would share with me
My fellow indigenous people. Its sad to see the hungry timber companies destroying the forest. We Dayak Bidayuh was lucky to be assimilate into the modernity quite early but we still have our native land, registered under our name.
Do you know where I can find more info on what is going on in Sarawak / land grabbing? Seems not easy to find out at all what is going on in these remote areas. …
i salute with this guy more than ellon musk who try to protect forest
The high price of canola oil means palm oil planting will go on at an exponential level. Usually crashing the canola market slong eith the palm oil market.
Bruno Manser been fighting for Penan people long time ago and he's not even a Malaysian. And here we are, just be able to watch the state rulers of Sabah and Sarawak, allowing this happening for the sake of their pockets. We need help to save the precious jungle .
Very interesting👍 Thanks for the video👏👏👏. I shoot a little about my republic. Greetings from distant, cold Yakutia.
06:19 LOL at the ants stealing rice.
those aren't rice, those are their eggs
Lol
Those are their eggs 😐
I'm from indonesian part of borneo. Our forest is dying. I can't imagine in 10 or 20 years later. How can human being so greedy
Malaysian citizens should be protesting for this! That’s their ancestral land and have all the rights to be left alone there forever. 😔
not all Malaysians, a lot of them are from overseas, Chinese, Indians, what have you
@@lunafringe10 The commenter is talking about the indigenous peoples of Malaysia, both in the Peninsula and Malaysian Borneo.
Where is this
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