ANTIDOTE There was a simple dignity in the May 24 defiant protest of 13 Penan village representatives from upper Baram, visiting the state assembly to push for a Penan Peace Park.

The Penan Peace Park is similar to a 'Biosphere Reserve', promised the Penan by Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud in 1993, even as Taib kept sending in the logging trucks and bulldozers.

Taib's promise was never kept, to no-one's surprise.