Here’s an interesting new strategy. Don’t like what a lumber company is doing to the forest you live in? Declare it to be a national park and tell the loggers to get the heck out.

They are calling it the Penan Peace Park, but a new rainforest reserve proclaimed by indigenous Penan communities on their native lands in the Malaysian state of Sarawak is likely to be the focus of conflict.

With the proclamation of the park on the island of Borneo, 17 Penan communities are challenging the Sarawak state government that has given away these lands to a logging company. The Penan Peace Park area is fully concessioned for logging by the Malaysian timber giant Samling.

It’s going to be the government and the logging companies versus the people of Sarawak. We all know how those conflicts usually play out, so good luck to the people of Penan. They’re going to nheed it.