The construction of the smaller Batang Ai Dam in the 1980s involved the relocation of the indigenous Iban (members of one of the largest indigenous groups of Sarawak, formerly animist, now majority Christian) from the Lubok Antu District. Here too the problems of insufficient compensation, lack of opportunities, and the difficulties of transition to a cash economy, including loan repayments, undermined the human security of the relocated group. If Bakun truly serves as a harbinger of things to come with the other planned Sarawakian dams – or a continuation of trends established with Batang Ai – then other indigenous communities must brace themselves for the sort of damage and loss endured by those already relocate. The following reports detail how indigenous groups are already protesting the inevitable relocations.