A letter from the Sarawak forest

Sim Kwang Yang
Nov 15, 08
12:40pm

The sprawling impenetrable primary rain forests in Baram in northern Sarawak is certainly not the place to lose one's way, if one happens to be travelling through them. Nevertheless, that was what Ismail Salleh 31, and Rano Sani 26, did - losing their way in the jungle - in late October.

They were among 50 surveyors carrying out demarcation work for a multi-billion ringgit inter-state 500km gas pipeline project from Kimanis near Kota Kinabalu in Sabah to Bintulu in Sarawak. Then they went missing on October 28. The police sent out search and rescue teams but they could not be found. They were in great peril.

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