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P UTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has agreed to hear an appeal by seven Orang Asli villagers from Pekan against a private firm on ...
Normaliati Ali of the Jakun indigenous community wore a dress handcrafted from terap and pudu tree bark to celebrate her big day.
Numbering around 200,000 people, the Orang Asli – which roughly translates to Original People in Malay – are a loose coalition of 18 indigenous tribes living in villages across most states in ...
As the first Orang Asli woman to receive the Merdeka Award Grant for International Attachment, Masni Mat Dong hopes to be able to do more to advocate for her people.
GUA MUSANG: The government’s initiative to provide a telecommunication network and good internet access to the Orang Asli community living in the interior is indeed good news for them.
Sultan Ibrahim said the Orang Asli community in Johor was well taken care of as the government has built roads, houses, schools and surau (prayer halls) for the community.
The film being shown was Selai Kayu Yek, which translated means Roots of My Land.It tells the tale of two young Orang Asli women – one a famous YouTuber and another a farmer living on her family’s ...
To improve the Orang Asli children’s access to education, the previous governments implemented various programmes including the Orang Asli Transformation Plan 2013-2018 under the Malaysia Education ...
It said that based on data on the primary to secondary school dropout rates among Orang Asli and national students (2016 to 2018) from MOE, despite the declining dropout rate among Orang Asli students ...
Orang Asli activist Suria Selasih Angit calls for the training of teachers on racial bias and internalised prejudice to foster mutual trust between teachers and Orang Asli students.
The prowess, agility and efficiency of the Orang Asli in forest knowledge makes the community the ideal choice to be recruited in the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) as a member of the General ...
The Orang Asli tribe, led by Kelah Lah, 38, and Khalip Bachik, 57, had in 2008 filed a suit against the Land and Mines director, Johor Baru City Council and the Orang Asli Affairs department ...