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"Sekolah-sekolah telah dibina di kawasan-kawasan Pos Keselamatan dan guru-guru yang mengajar adalah terdiri daripada kakitangan JHEOA. Pada tahun 1953, sekolah pertama bagi anak-anak Orang Asli telah didirikan di Batu 3, Jalan Cameron Highland yang…

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"Perkara utama yang menjadi kekurangan dalam kalangan masyarakat Orang Asli hari ini adalah kemahiran keibubapaan. Mereka masih lagi mengamalkan kemahiran keibubapaan tradisi bersesuaian dengan anak-anak yang tidak terdedah kepada pemodenan. Tetapi…

"Sejak mencapai kemerdekaan, perhatian telah diberikan untuk memajukan pendidikan dalam kalangan masyarakat Orang Asli. Pada peringkat awal, Jabatan Hal Ehwal Orang Asli (JHEOA) yang sekarang dikenali sebagai JAKOA telah diberi tanggungjawab…

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"Tanah adat merupakan tanah yang diwarisi secara turun-temurun daripada nenek moyang kepada keturunannya. Tanah adat mempunyai ikatan yang kuat dengan Orang Asli Temuan dan perlu dipertahankan sebagai tanda menghormati nenek moyang."

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"Kebiasaannya mayat dikebumikan pada pukul 1.30 petang. Sebelum itu saudara-mara akan dibenarkna untuk melihat wajh mendiang buat kali terakhir sebagai tanda memberi penghormatan terakhir kepada mendiang. Selepas itu, keranda mayat akan ditutup dan…

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"Adat Mandi Serum dilakukan oleh ibu dan anak. Tujuan mandi serum ialah agar ibu susah untuk ditimpa penyakit dan luka dalaman sembuh dengan cepat. Fungsi amndi serum untuk anak pula ialah supaya anakk cepat berdiri dan berjalan. Manddi serum perlu…

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"Cerai mati berlaku apabila salah seorang dari suami isteri telah meninggal dunia. Cerai mati berlaku pada hari ke-100 selepas jenazah pasangannya dikebumikan. Cerai mati merupakan cara memaklumkan kepada orang ramai bahawa sesorang itu telah menjadi…

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"Adat mandi bedak perlu dilakukan oleh kedua-dua ibu bapa pengantin lelaki dan pengantin perempuan. Ibu pengantin lelaki perlu memandikan menantu perempuan dan ibu pengantin perempuan memandikan menantu lelaki. Selain pengantin, pengapit pengantin…

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"Wali pengantin pereempuan akan mengisytiharkan peralatan adat atau lebih dikenali sebagai hantaran daripada pengantin lelaki. Wali pengantin perempuan akan menyebut dan menunjukkan satu per satu peralatan adat yang dibawa oleh pengantin lelaki.…

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"Bujam Adat mempunyai fungsi lain selain fungsi yang telah disenaraikan sebelum ini. Antanya ialah pertimbangan yang digunakan untuk menentukan hukuman yang sesuai dikenakan sekiranya Orang Asli Temuan melakukan sesuatu kesalahan."

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"Kedudukan penggawa merupakan kedudukan yang paling akhir dalam organisasi Lembaga Adat Orang Asli Temuan. Tugas penggawa membantu cekerah menjemput penduduk kampung menghadiri majlis yang dijalankan dalam kampung."

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"Masyarakat peribumi di Malaysia terbahagi kepada dua kategori iaitu Bumiputera dan Orang Asli. Peribumi merujuk kumpulan etnik natif di sesebuah wilayah yang dituntut dan dipertahankan sepenuhnya oleh sesebuah negara (Hasan, 1998). Ramle (2007),…

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"Perhaps, it is an apt to conclude this report with the message of a song about a Semai woman called Wak Bong. While the lyrics are recent, the melody and the musical accompaniment are traditional - precisely the marriage between the traditional and…

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"We also realised that Semai women today seem to be under the men's power and control. The men themselves have assumed that they possess this authority over the women. They see their responsibility to the family in merely making sure that they get…

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"In the past, Semai women wen with their menfolk to hunt for small animals such as birds (using sticky birdlime, cog ep), squirrels, monkeys and jungle fowl. While on these hunting trips, the women plucked cassava shoots or sourced out medicinal…

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"Semai society is certainly no longer the fully 'traditional' society that the elders remember it to be. However, there are more reasons than the mythical defiance of Semai males like the bean-pod son in the story that have caused changes in the…

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"After planting padi, the women plant crops such as maize, cassava, yams, sweet potato, chillies, and some indigenous varieties of vegetables - e.g., bayam hik, kacang hik, serai, petola hik, asap teroq, teroq sentol - as well as some ritual flowers.…

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"The Semai categorise their food sources according to three major categories: living things that inhabit the water, those that liev on land, and those that are able to fly. Each group of animals has its own place in nature. This is taken to be the…

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"The Semai of Kampung Chang Lama also relate fondly to the rivers and the fish (kaq) that aboud in them. The elders cherish recounting how, in the past, when one was hungry, one needed only to put the rice in the boil and go to the river to fish. By…

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"It is clear therefore that religion in Semai society has been used to sanction certain concepts that have inherent social values. These concepts provide guidelines for daily living and set the basis of an egalitarian social system. The effectiveness…

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"The present settlement of Kampung Chang Lama covers 245 acres (99.1 hectares) of dwellings and rubber smallholdings. From the eyes of the state government such land is still state land, although an application was made by JHEOA in1969 to have the…

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"Thus, one of the saddest outcome of this imposition by, and then absorption of, the dominant culture is that Orang Asli women take on a more secondary role in both the Orang Asli community and the wider society at large. Their involvement in the…

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"The policy of integration with the mainstream is frequently used to justify the objective of the 'Islamisation of the whole Orang Asli community' (JHEOA 1983: 2). As part of a variety of 'positive descrimination' policies, Orang Asli who convert to…

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"The Orang Asli are the indigenous minority peoples of Peninsular Malaysia. The term which transliterates as 'original peoples' or 'first peoples', is a collective term for the 19 ethnic sub-groups officially classified for administrative purposes…

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"Of course this distinction can be overdrawn. Some Semai are defensive and intolerant. Many Malays, like the herbalist from Grik, are flexible and intellectually curious. But a history of exploitation sets exploiters up to be ignorant. The notion…

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"Because the outside world had become so fearsome, Semai turned inward, developing an ideology in which loving one's friends and neighbours became a matter of survival, and quarreling a threat to one's life. A number of ways emerged to minimise…

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"According to Pion Bumbun, a full-time carver and the most gifted in Kg. Sg. Bumbun, Carey Island, it used to take him less than a few hours to locate a mature ni[R]eh batu tree for his carvings. A mature tree could produce more than 10 pieces of…

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"Chewong live in west-central Pahang, in an area that was not visited by Europeans until 1936 (Ogilvie, 1940; 1948; 1949). It lies to the west of the Pahang river, to the north of the Semantan river and to the south of the Krau river. Westwards,…

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"Temiar kniship is inclusive in scope: all Temiars, and indeed all members if the neighbouring Orang Asli groups, are regarded as kin or potential kin. Two strangers who have newly met will each search their genealogical knowledge until they find one…

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"The Temiars of the upland parts of Kelantan, Perak and northern Pahang form one of the largest Orang Asli (Aboriginal) populations of Peninsular Malaysia, but because of their relative isolation, they have been less studied than the other large…

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"Aslian vowel systems are very full, for there are usually at least nine significantly different tongue positions (compared to the five or six of Standard Malay). The vowels of Jah Hut are typical, but some languages have even more complicated…

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"Although we can never manage to sustain all of the world's endangered languages, we still need to record them for posterity. Some thousands of languages don't even have word-lists, let alone dictionaries or grammars. If these were to die out without…

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"As discussed earlier, the Kensiew speakers are daily making language choices in their interactions with both Thai and Pattani-Malay speakers. To date, the Maniq have chosen to maintain their mother tongue as their primary language for…

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"The greater Baansakai community not only includes the Maniq settlement, but also a mixed community of Pattani-Malay speakers and Southern Thai speakers, the Malay speakers constituting the majority of the greater community. The primary economic…

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"As for Kenaboi dan the Mantra, there is a strong possibility that they became Islamised and over the century have come to be known as Malay, while certain groups in Negeri Sembilan assimilated with the Temuan/Blandas and lost their ethnic…

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"The Negrito as seen in the Kintak Bong, have traditionally depended on hunting and gathering activities to fulfill all their daily requirements, but this situation is rapidly changing as they become increasingly dependent on economic exchange with…

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"Since they do not have any heavy furniture or equipment and their shelters are no more than the worthless flora, the actual process of movement is very simple. The shifting must be initiated by the elder. although the younger may give suggestions.…

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"Once the harvesting was completed, women used a sharp bamboo (di') to shred the rice grains from the stalk. The grains were first roasted (hawo') and then pounded in a wooden mortar (halu'). These tasks may all have been performed in the fields to…

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"Over the last decade, the Department of Orang Asli Affairs (Jabatan Hal Ehwal Orang Asli) has shifted from the Ministries of Agriculture and Rural Development to Culture and Tourism and now National Unity and Social Development, depending on…

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"The study of Orang Asli-Malay minority-majority relations necessitates an understanding of social realities in the uneven access to political and socio-economic resources. It is also concerned with understanding concepts of justice, freedom,…

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"The main thrust of these recommendations is that Orang Asli want development and integration into mainstream society, but with their ethnic identities intact. In many ways the recommendations recall the Statement of Policy of 1961, which was…

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"The Department's goal of converting Orang Asli to Islam also requires keeping them from adopting other religions. The JHEOA skirts the Constitutional guarantee of religious freedom by using powers set out in the Aboriginal Peoples Act to exclude…

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"On the whole the government's economic programs both inside and outside of regroupment schemes have failed to benefit Orang Asli. Most Orang Asli are actually worse off now than they were before the government began its efforts to "develop" their…

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"The JHEOA goal in regroupment schemes is to foster cash-crop arboriculture. The favored crop is rubber, though the price of rubber is generally low and subject to wild variations depending on world market demand. probably the Department continues to…

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"Contrary to the claims of some government officials, Orang Asli are not against development. The Semai who held logs hostage in Pahang wanted development (a road, piped water, electricity), not money. The Temuan in Negeri Sembilan who applied for a…

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"For Orang Asli, the benefits of developing golf courses and resorts are indirect at best. It takes two or three hundred workers to build a golf course. but only about forty to run it, fewer if it is mechanized. A few Semai with the equivalent of a…

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"The harshest activity with the harshest impact on Orang Asli is logging, a prerequisite to most development projects. Although Malaysia is well known for its export of manufactures, palm oil, rubber, and tin, the two exports which made in the most…

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"In the late 1970s, however, the government began a program for converting all Orang Asli to Islam (JHEOA 1983; Mohd Tap 1990:228; see Chapter 5). This reflected a shift in the government's goal from integration to asimilation, which would result in…

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"The Federal Constitution (Malaysian Government 1982) recognizes Orang Asli as citizens, who, in theory, are guaranteed the same rights as all other citizens. These rights include equal treatment before the law, equal access to public education,…

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"In December 1941 the Japanese invaded the Peninsula and occupied it until 1945. During that period most Orang Asli retreated into the forest and avoided contact with the outside world. They shared the forest with the Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese…

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