PKR Wanita chief Zuraida Kamaruddin has criticised the report released by the government on the rape of Penan women and girls by loggers in Baram, describing it as "incomplete".

The government made the report public yesterday.

pkr congress seremban 260507 zuraida kamaruddin Zuraida (left) received a copy on Sept 8, almost a year after media accounts of rape of Penan girls by loggers first appeared.

She said the report fails to mention specific measures in curbing rape cases and sexual abuse of Penan women, teenagers and little girls.

"The report also fails to mention the specific roles the Sarawak police should play in order to further prevent sexual abuse," she said in a statement.

The situation has deteriorated, she said, because the Sarawak police have not been serious and diligent enough in curbing such crimes.

NONE"The statement by crime department head Huzir Mohamad that the Sarawak police force is not duty-bound to investigate the allegations on the sexual abuse, is also disappointing.

"Although inspector-general of police Musa Hassan had in January this year promised the Penan Support Group that (the police) would investigate the matter with the help of NGOs, no action has been taken against the perpetrators."

The report lists at least eight cases of rape of Penan girls and women by logging camp workers. The report further mentions that several victims were schoolgirls as young as 10 and that some had repeatedly been made pregnant.

Perpetrators not charged

Zuraida, also the Ampang MP, expressed disappointment that there has been no effort at all to charge the perpetrators, although they have been identified in the report.

She condemned the logging company involved in the sexual abuse for "neglecting its social responsibility towards the Penan society".

NONE"The loggers who abused these girls sexually are such an insult (to society) as they have behaved like animals. Malaysia does not need such companies who operate solely on self-interest and profit, which will eventually affect its citizens.

"What is there to be proud of if they gain billions of ringgit in profit but fail to provide security to the Penan society?

"Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's (right) 1Malaysia slogan has gone out of the window because of the advantage these loggers took of these women."