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Commonwealth NGOs
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 Borneo Resources Institute
Lot 1046 2nd Fl.Shang Garden Shoplots
Jalan Bulan Sabit,Miri,
Sarawak 98000
Malaysia
Email: snanet@tm.net.my
Website: www.brimas.www1.50megs.com
Type: NGO
Scope: national
Interest in Forestry: peripheral
Description
BRIMAS is a foremost indigenous non-profit organization working at the grassroots level in Sarawak.
BRIMAS was formed in response to the appalling situation faced by indigenous Dayak
communitites and concerns about their native customary rights, resources, environment, and development
taking place on their traditional lands.
Mission:
To educate indigenous communities about their rights, to promote community-based sustainable resource
management and conservation, to empower their initiatives toward self-reliant and resiliant
communities, to assist in their pursuit of self-sufficiency and to ensure the survival of their traditional
knowledge, arts and cultures.
Since its inception, BRIMAS has been working actively with the indigenous communities who face massive
problems of development intrusion that threaten their survival and environment, deprive
them of traditional resources, alienate and displace them of their customary land. The BRIMAS office
in Miri town serves as an indigenous resource centre promoting the exchange of information and
ideas. BRIMAS has developed active programmes and various activities geared to the interests of diverse
ethnic society in Malaysia.
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