Sumber: GreenPeace International

TJ Ringkas penting sahaja.

Rencana ini adalah susulan rencana mengenai James Wong dan Mirzan Mahathir yang aktif memburu balak. Sila rujuk rencana sebelumnya bertajuk Dalang Balak Tanam Pokok Pula untuk mendapat maklumat lanjut.

INTIMNYA KUMPULAN WTK DAN JAMES WONG

Kumpulan Wong Tuong Kwong (WTK) adalah syarikat besar "Top 5" balak Sarawak. Ia ditubuhkan pada 1960an oleh Datuk Wong Tuong Kwong. [Datuk lagi.... -penterjemah]

Ia menjadi satu konglomerat yang besar dengan 70 subsidiari yang beroperasi dipelbagai negara seperti membalak di Papua New Guinea, selain Sarawak (450,000 hektar) - [Punyalah banyaknya.. -penterjemah]

Semasa berkerja dengan WTK, anak suudara Wong Tuong Kwong belajar berniaga dan selepas berpecah pada 1975, beliau meninggalkan koporat itu utk menubuhkan Kumpulan Rimbunan Hijau (AWSJ 1994).

WTK diurus oleh dua anak Wong Tuong Kwong; Wong Kie Yik dan bekas Senator Wong Kie Nai. Kie Nai and Kie Yik adalah pembekal utama sumber kewangan kepada parti milik James Wong, Sarawak National Party (SNAP).

Oprasi pembalakkan WTK sering dibantah oleh orang asli kaum Penan di kawasan Sungai Magoh dan mereka telah mengadakan sekatan jalan. Kumpulan WTK menggajikan seorang cina yang fasih berbahasa penan. Si cina ini pernah mengugut kaum penan:

"Jika kamu tidak membuang sekatan ini, kamu hendaklah berjaga-jaga waktu malam. Saya akan datang dan bunuh anak-anak kamu" .. (Manser, 1996, p39).

Setelah gagal dalam bicara mahkamah pada 1987 mengenai sekatan jalan itu, pihak WTK dikatakan telah memberi wang kepada jurucakap yang membantah. Beliau diberi RM30,000 untuk memujuk kaumnya menerima perkongsian keuntungan sekadar RM2 se meter padu balak untuk membolehkan WTK beroperasi. Jurucakap yang membantah itu enggan menerima tawaran tersebut. (Manser, 1996).

(Petikkan lapuran Greenpeace, Dec 1, 1998, An Overview of Asian Companies: Malaysia).

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WONG TUONG KWONG (WTK GROUP OF COMPANIES)

Malaysia

Wong Tuong Kwong (WTK) Group is the oldest of the big five Sarawak timber giants, founded in the 1960s by Datuk Wong Tuong Kwong. It has become a huge conglomerate with 70 subsidiaries operating in several activities such as mineral exploration, insurance etc and has logging concessions in Papua New Guinea as well as Sarawak (450.000 acres). It was through working for WTK that Wong Tuong Kwong's nephew, Tiong Hiew King, learnt about the business and following a split in 1975 left to establish the Rimbunan Hijau group (Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, 1994).

WTK is managed by the two sons of Wong Tuong Kwong; Wong Kie Yik and former Senator Wong Kie Nai. Kie Nai and Kie Yik are prominent financiers of James Wong's Sarawak National Party (SNAP).

WTK operations in Sarawak have encountered resistance by local people. When offers of gifts such as casting nets for fishing and money were refused by the Penan of the Magoh-River region and they maintained a road blockade, WTK is said to have employed a Chinese versed in Penan matters. He threatened the people:

"If you do not abandon the blockade, you had better watch out at night. I will come and kill your children..." (Manser, 1996, p39).

After losing a court case in 1987 concerning blockades on private roads WTK is said to have offered the blockade spokesperson RM30,000 (US$11,900) to persuade his people to accept a profit share of RM2 (US$0.79) per cubic meter of timber to allow the company to continue working. The spokesperson declined. (Manser, 1996)."

(Greenpeace, Dec 1, 1998, An Overview of Asian Companies: Malaysia).