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It’s been a month now that the 7 Temiar children have gone missing. Despite the search by the parents and villagers, as well as by the Army and the local volunteer reserve corps (RELA), there has been no positive evidence of them having been lost or moving around in the forests surrounding their school at […]

Jia Sheng (at right) with fellow intern Jia Shern (middle) and JOAS staff Yein in COAC’s office. Fong Jia Sheng COAC Intern (July-August 2015) 17 September 2015   Over the course of two months as an intern at the Center for Orang Asli Concerns (COAC), I have learned a lot. For starters, did you now know

Masyarakat Orang Asli di Kelantan amat kecewa dengan slogan dan cara perhimpunan Baju Merah yang diketegorikan sebagai tidak menghormati hak dan sensitiviti kaum yang lain di negara ini. Menurut Kamal bin Alek, perhimpunan ini bersifat perkauman walaubagaimana pihak berkuasa menyatakan perhimpunan ini halal. “Bagi kami komuniti Orang Asli, ini sudah jelas mereka menunjukkan slogan di kain

During this year’s village-level celebration of the World Indigenous Day, the young Jakuns of Kampung Peta, on the eastern border of the Endau-Rompin National Park in Johor, decided to go back to the old days and reenact how their forefathers dressed then. For the Orang Asli here, it was a affirmation of their identity as indigenous

A Selangor State Government staff had to have three stiches on his head after an attack by an encroacher on the customary lands of the Mah Meri in Pulau Carey. Shaharrin bin Kenkeng, a community mapper with the Selangor Orang Asli Land Task (BBTOAS), was hit on the head with a modified harvesting sickle when he

Unhappy with the way the case of the beaten schoolgirl was being handled by the school, several parents called for a PIBG (or Parents-Teachers’ Association) meeting. The school authorities agreed to have it at 10am on Thursday, 9 July 2015. However, when they turned up at the appointed time and day, the group was told that

We were in Kampung Mengkapor, Pahang on Wednesday 8 July 2015 to gather further evidence from their oral tradition in preparation for the expert report to be submitted to the Kuantan High Court. This is in respect of their civil suit against several companies and the Pahang state government, among others, for encroachment into their traditional

The head of the family group in the Batu 10 Gunong Arong settlement has been asked to relocate to the nearby Orang Asli settlement of Kampung Labong, Mersing. The State Director of the Johor Department of Orang Asli Development, JAKOA, in a letter dated 23 June 2015, instructed Awang Rambai to vacate the forest reserve area

2nd July is the birthday of Dr. Bolton, the one who introduced modern healthcare to the Orang Asli in the 1950s, and trained Orang Asli as paramedics when the Gombak Orang Asli Hospital was established in 1960. He died in 2006 at the age of 82. But even in death his service to the Orang

[English translation follows the Malay text.] Berdasarkan temubual dan laporan dari lapangan, Pengurus Projek JOAS Koong Hui Yein mefailkan timeline dan update berikut pada 30 Jun 2015, jam 6 petang: 15hb Jun 2015 Masa itu 3 orang budak, termasuk Siti bermain di tepi kereta Cikgu Arif. Cikgu itu nampak dan keluar dari kereta. Dua budak