The 350-mile mighty Rajang River, the longest in Malaysia, is the sole hope of the people in the Rajang River Basin. What took place on 7 October this year, that has been loosely termed as 'logjam', has worried every folk who depends on the Rajang for transportation, water supply and other activities associated with the river. The logjam blocked the Rajang waterway for a distance of about 50 kilometers, right down from the mouth of the Baleh River by massive drifting logs previously felled by timber logging companies in the upper part of the Baleh River. Besides the felled logs there were debris too. Baleh is one of the main tributaries of the Rajang joining the main river just a few kilometers above Kapit town. It has been reported in the local newspapers that some senior civil servants and senior politicians attributed the logjam to the act of God. I was made to understand the Baleh Dayak will perform the "Miring Ceremony" [literally means offering sacrifice] to appease the Gods for what some local senior politicians termed as 'unprecedented phenomenon'.
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