. The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: Asia and the Pacific. ^., {Source: Spencer, J. E. 1966) Obstacles to Progress Government policies towards the forest peoples in the Asian region (but not in the Pacific), while varying from country to country, are almost without exception directed towards the goal of integration - the gradual dismantling of cultural differences and the incorporation of the forest peoples into the society of the national majority. In some cases government institutions have been specifically created to carry out this role; as well as being charged with protecting the
. The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: Asia and the Pacific. ^., {Source: Spencer, J. E. 1966) Obstacles to Progress Government policies towards the forest peoples in the Asian region (but not in the Pacific), while varying from country to country, are almost without exception directed towards the goal of integration - the gradual dismantling of cultural differences and the incorporation of the forest peoples into the society of the national majority. In some cases government institutions have been specifically created to carry out this role; as well as being charged with protecting the peoples' basic rights, a task they have accomplished rather less assiduously (Colchester, 1986c; Dove, 1989). Resettlement has been central to many of these government-run programmes, whereby the people are moved out of their forest settlements and re-established as sedentary farmers or plantation workers (Carey, 1976). Although facilitating access to desired ser- vices - schools, clinics and markets - such moves, when too rapidly undertaken, have caused severe social and economic problems, sometimes with serious environmental consequences. They have also, often, been motivated by less charitable intentions, either to clear their lands for 'development' - dams, roads or mines - or to allow the takeover of the forests by other interested groups, settlers, agribusinesses or loggers. National security considerations also un- derlie many of these resettlement schemes, both for the classic purpose of counter-insurgency and also to promote government control over inaccessible regions (Budiardjo, 1986; Fay, 1987). The rapid exploitation by outsiders of forests used by tribal people has not gone unprotested. Conflicts, often armed, have been wide- spread. For example, in northern Sarawak, their claims to traditional land rights denied, certain tribes have resorted to setting up barri- cades across the logging roads to defend the forests around their In Mulu National Park, Sarawak, kno
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