The department’s director, Mohamed Zin Yusop, said they had not received any order to issue such a notice, either from the state government or Putrajaya.

“For now, the department has not issued any stop-work order to the licence holder,” he told FMT.

Yesterday, Malaysiakini quoted Deputy National Unity and Social Well-being Minister Mohamed Farid Md Rafik as saying that logging activities had been suspended.

Jakoa, or the Department of Orang Asli Development, recently called for a suspension of all logging near an Orang Asli settlement in Gerik.

This came after the minister in charge of national unity, P Waytha Moorthy, stepped in to try to resolve the dispute between a logging company and a group of Orang Asli residents who have set up a blockade to prevent encroachments into their settlement.

Meanwhile, a villager from Tasik Cunex said logging was carrying on as normal.

“We lodged another police report after we found that some trees were felled and were ready to be taken out.

“We will continue with the blockade,” the villager, who did not want to be named, said.