Sarawak tribes struggle with modern problems.

Alcoholism, drug use and crime among the indigenous people in Sarawak on the increase and anger is rising over continuing encroachment on native Lands.
By expanding dams, oil-palm plantations and other development force thousands off ancestral lands in the state of Sarawak, a host of modern new problems threaten to break down once tight-knit tribal communities.Village elders and activists say alchoholism, drug use and crime are on the increase and anger is rising over continuing encroachment on native lands.There have been a lot of social changes. Some teens who go to school learn to rebel against their parents and boys and girls now mingle freely as they see it on the television.By mingling freely, some teen ages girls got pregnan and this something unheard-of in the old days.
The state government is pushing to develop the economy of Sarawak which is blessed by rich natural resources yet remains one of Malaysia's poorest states.Tribal lands make up about 80 percent of Sarawak and nearly all has been taken for logging and plantations. At a forum on native concerns in the town Bintulu in October organised by the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia, about 150 Iban tribespeople alleged a  palm oil company illegally seized their land for a plantation and disturbed ancestral graves .
About four million of Malaysia's 28 million people belong to indigenous tribes most of which are native to Malaysian Borneo where some retain diminishing traditional rainforest hunting and farming.ways.