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| Bojong villagers formed committee to oversee mini hydro installation |
Our effort to install mini hydro for ulu Bengoh had attracted interests: a reader of the news about the Bengoh villagers trying to instal mini hydro informed us of a successful attempt to bring electricity to long house folks-in Lachau, near Sri Aman in recent years. If the folks there can do it -why not folks in Bengoh villages? Yet from another friend the location has now been supplied with electricity from SESCO -so the mini hydro is either lying idle or could be sold off? Read on:
| Now, they have electricity...self supplied |
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| Saturday, 28 July 2007 |
Tony Thien (Malaysiakini)
For the residents of the 14-door Iban longhouse in Kampung Abok
Mawang, located 150km on the Kuching-Sri Aman Road, the one invaluable
lesson they have learnt well is about the importance of self-reliance
and initiative to make things better for themselves.
At the
corner of every general elections, they heard promises that electricity
from the state utility company would come to the longhouse, situated
along the highway, soon. But those promises have remained largely
unfulfilled.
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