I wrote this article on the indigenous people of Malaysia 2 years ago. Little did I know it would be published elsewhere today.
“Someone once said that it doesn’t matter who arrived in this land first; what matters is who controls the land thereafter. Today, the Native Indians hold little claim to the land called “America.” The Aborigines are known to be relatively under-represented in the Australian parliament compared to the other races in the country. And here in Malaysia, the Orang Asli community too continues to fade into invisibility, appearing only once in a while in travel brochures and advertisement campaigns.
The Orang Asli community lives in the jungles of Malaysia and make up less than 0.5 percent of the country’s population. Not only are they the minority of the country, they are also the most marginalised, sidelined – call it by any other term – abandoned by the government in every effort it makes to improve the nation’s standard of living…”
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