Qualla: Baram Dam https://qualla.com/baram-dam en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Baram Dam https://qualla.com/baram-dam Baram Dam: Introduction https://qualla.com/baram-dam/ On October 23, 2014, a group of indigenous protesters in the rainforest interior of Sarawak celebrated a birthday. Not a person's birthday -- the anniversary of a road blockade. For one full year, communities of Kenyah, Kayan, and Penan people had maintained a barrier near Long Kesseh on the upper Baram River, physically preventing Sarawak Energy workers from reaching the site of a proposed hydroelectric dam that would have drowned 389 square kilometers of their homeland. Police had dismantled the blockade once. The protesters rebuilt it within hours. A month later, Sarawak Chief Minister Adenan Satem made it official: the Baram Dam was shelved. The people of Baram, he acknowledged, did not welcome the plan.

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/8/9/7/baram-dam-wp/w897-baram-dam-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Baram Dam: Blueprint for a Flood https://qualla.com/baram-dam/ The Baram Dam -- formally Baram 1 -- was designed as a gravity dam 162 meters tall with a crest length of 685 meters, supported by a 70-meter saddle dam five kilometers to the southwest. Its reservoir would have swallowed 389 square kilometers of forested river valley, roughly 25...

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/8/9/7/baram-dam-wp/w897-baram-dam-blueprint-for-a-flood.mp3 0:06 2 full Baram Dam: Whose River Is It? https://qualla.com/baram-dam/ The Baram River is not empty land. It is the lifeline of longhouse communities who have lived along its banks for generations -- the Kenyah and Kayan peoples, skilled farmers and boat-builders, and the semi-nomadic Penan, among the last hunter-gatherer societies in Southeast Asia...

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/8/9/7/baram-dam-wp/w897-baram-dam-whose-river-is-it.mp3 0:06 3 full Baram Dam: Blockades and Birthdays https://qualla.com/baram-dam/ Resistance to the Baram Dam escalated steadily. In May 2013, three hundred indigenous people staged a demonstration at the International Hydropower Association's World Congress at the Borneo Convention Centre in Kuching, delivering written demands to the organization's executive ...

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/8/9/7/baram-dam-wp/w897-baram-dam-blockades-and-birthdays.mp3 0:06 4 full Baram Dam: The Dam That Wasn't Built https://qualla.com/baram-dam/ In November 2015, Chief Minister Adenan Satem shelved the Baram Dam. His phrasing was careful -- the project was described as "temporarily" suspended -- but the political reality was clear. The people of Baram had made the dam unworkable. The Social and Environmental Impact Asses...

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