Bruno and the Blowpipes

Bruno and the Blowpipes

Who will Determine the Future of Sarawak's Penan

A Swiss man,Bruno Manser was spent his five years living with the Penan people,completely adapting his lifestyle to their.Bruno Manser has dissapeared in Borneo and is feared dead.When his ages is 47 he last seen in May 2000 in the isolated village of Bareo in the Malaysian state of Sarawak.Manser is the person that make Penan among the most obscure.He was an environment activist.In Switzerland he was well-known because of his public activism for rainforest preservation and the protection of indigenous peoples.In Sarawak,he protect the semi-nomadic Penan.


Manser known as a provocateur by Malaysian official and they saw him as a fugitive.Even Bruno Manser only an environmental,they called him "enemy of the state number one".Because Manser give support to the Penan to protect their forest.Bruno also ever catch by inspector Lores Matios at Long Napir,Limbang at 1986.But Bruno escape and they cannot catch him.Sarawak's chief minister who is responsible for approving and denying all logging licenses in Sarawak ,had his personal at fortune at stake.


In my opinion,i think Bruno Manser was right to stop the government from developing the jungles of Sarawak and to depend Penan from change.Because our forest will damage or destroy if no peoples want to protect it.