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"We must seek rights not only for ourselves, but also for all Orang Asli, all suku-kaum, all kampungs. Or else, we will have no land later. We are being pushed here and there when the goverment wants to have a certain project ... Felda, Felcra. We…

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"We have already referred to the respectful and influential position that a halak enjoys in Negrito society. This respect extends beyond the grave, for a halak's funeral is different from that given to an ordinary man. A halak is not buried in the…

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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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"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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"Veeman (1986/97) also acknowledged that medical posts did exist in some remote areas, "flying doctors" did provide curative services, malaria teams did go out to villages at times, and field trips were made from Gombak Hospital to accessible sites…

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"Usaha menyeimbangkan keberadaan pelbagai kaum serta merapatkan jurang perbezaan menjadikan kehadiran masyarakat minoriti Orang Asli dalam arus perdana pembangunan negara tidak boleh dinafikan. Justeru, usaha mengekal dan melestari ciri jati diri…

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"Ukiran patung kayu hanya diusahakan oleh suku kaum Mah Meri dan Jah Het yang menjadi sebahagian daripada kepercayaan animisme mereka. Patung yang diukir melambangkan unsur-unsur yang pelbagai seperti tanah, pelangi, guruh, angin, lautan dan bumi.…

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"Topeng digunakan oleh suku kaum Mah Meri dalam persembahan tarian sebagai mewakili roh nenek moyang mereka. Roh nenek moyang masyarakat Mah Meri dipanggil Moyang."

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"Today, however many of the Negrito groups live in permanent settlements in Northeast Kedah (the Kensiu people), along the Kedah-Perak border (Kintak), Northeast Perak and West Kelantan (Jahai), North-central Perak (Lanoh), Southeast Kelantan…

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"To maintain good relations with the superhumans, Batek communicated with them regularly through singing sessions in which shamans might go into trance and send their shadow-souls to visit the superhumans. At the beginning and end of fruit seasons,…

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"To appease the deity, an old man or an old woman will cut the skin near to the shin bone, and collect the blood into a bamboo container. This blood is then mixed with water and a part of it is thrown into the air as a sacrifice to Karei, who lives…

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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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"This is not to suggest that early Orang Asli societies developed in isolation. On the contrary, far from remaining static, they have had to continually change and adapt themselves and their social organisation to their environment, their neighbours,…

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"They should certainly not be regarded as various stages of an evolutionary system. For example, a certain band may have long-standing ties with a Malay villager whom they trust and to whom, year after year, they return for seasonal work. When this…

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"There may be several factors for the stark difference in the population figures for the Kanak, and the Jakun and Temuan. One is that even from the beginning of their settlement in Malaya, the Kanak were a much smaller group compared to the other…

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"There is great deal of variation in the way of life of the Proto-Malays. Some of them, living in the remote areas of the jungle in Pahang, lead a semi-nomadic existence, and these people are much poorer and more backward than a majority of the…

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"Their feelings of loyalty and sense of 'belonging' are attached firstly to a particular small group or band, made up entirely of their own kinsmen. Secondly, they think of themselves as belonging to a particular tribe, having its own language, or at…

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"Their belief in an after-world is rather vague. After a man has died, his soul will hover around his grave for a number of weeks, and it must e propitiated if the living are not to be harmed. Thereafter the soul travels to an after-world located…

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"The women, by contrast, did not own a single piece of audio equipment. If their personal belongings had increased, it was because their husbands had chosen to given them things. With few exceptions, the women had stopped producing the smaller cane…

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"The whole of the Hikayat Awang Sulong Merah Muda is about Orang Asli, or rather a tribe of the Orang Asli who migrated from Terengganu to the west coast and made their home at place a place which, according to the description given, is near Gunung…

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"The third important task of the Department for Orang Asli Affairs is to improve the living standards of the Orang Asli. This has primarily affected the groups living outside the deep jungle, in the more accessible areas of the country. The…

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"The term Bumiputra in the Malaysian sense can be translated into "indigenous" or "native". In the figure above, the Orang Asli are indigenous people together with Malays and the Non-Malay Bumiputera. At the same time, there is also the sense given…

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"The term "language" used here is one that is general in nature, i. e. a speech system that is the medium of communication of a particular community. With the meaning given, a speech system can be a language or a dialect of the language. Hence, the…

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"The term 'Senoi' is of comparatively recent origin, and in the past the word 'Sakai' was normally used for the tribes with whom we are concerned here. The word 'Sakai', however, is most unsatisfactory, first because it was at times used to describe…

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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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"The Temiar and the Semai are largely jungle dwellers, and a majority of them live in the hilly country. Moreover, in a large number of cases, their social organization is based upon the longhouse. Then there is an other group of tribes, the Jah Hut,…

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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 State Culture, Arts and Tourism Committee Chairman, Shahiruddin Moin, said that, "Although it is natural for women of the tribe to live half naked in the village, their photographs may give a wrong impression that Malays here are dressed in that…

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"The shaman has varied and important functions, and he occupies a significant place in the religion of the Negritos. We must examine the functions of the halak in more detail in order to understand this clearly. Schebesta begins by saying that his…

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"The Senoi tribes, like many pre-literate peoples, do not have a special form of activity formally recognized as art. Instead, art is part of their normal everyday lives. For example, we have already seen that Temiar blowpipes, which have a purely…

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"The Semelai are allowed to have more than one wife, but this is most unusual and it is difficult to find any instances of a polygynous marriage. Economic reasons are often advanced for this, but in addition public opinion is not in favour of a man…

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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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"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 religious beliefs of the Temuan have not been studied in any detail, and accounts are therefore rather vague. According to my informants, there are two major deities, 'tuhan diatas' and 'tuhan dibawah', meaning sky-god and earth-god…

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"The question of whether the Orang Asli were the first to step foot on the Malay Peninsula has been a moot point among scholars of the history of the peninsula. However, as explained in Chapter 1, there is good reason for retaining the term in…

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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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"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 people who have lost the most from development in Peninsular Malaysia, however, are Orang Asli, the "original people" or "aborigines." Orang Asli have not only been left behing in the rising prosperity of the nation, their economic condition has…

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"The people earn their common-noun label "sea-gypsies" due to their way of life of living in wooden boats (the kabang) and temporary huts, and foraging for food. The fish they catch from the sea using nets are for their own consumption, and mostly…

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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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"The new policy which involved the establishment of jungle forts was undoubtedly, a great improvement upon resettlement, but there were of course a number of setbacks and difficulties and mistakes continued to be made. For example, as late as 1957,…

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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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"The Malaysia must have known the Jakun from earlier times, by the very name Jakun. In Malay idioms, anything that refers to an aspect of folkways that was considered unMalay, or deeply rural, was said to be "Jakun". This idiom is no longer in use,…

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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 Land Orang Asli consisting only of the Jakun, the Kanak and the Temuan, are found only in the Malay Peninsula. It has been the tradition among scholars when writing about them to place them in the umbrella group of the Malayan aborigines, who…

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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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"The Jah Hut is also a small tribe, and they are all found in Pahang. Writing in 1976, Carey says there were about 2000 of them, a figure which does not seem to show any increase from the onw given in the census of 1969. Carey also writes that there…

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"The issue of the Orang Asli's assimilation, however, is not merely a concern of the ruling government. The opposition Islamic party PAS concurs with the view that Islamisation should be a strategy for lifting the Orang Malays. The PAS Member of…

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"The heavy-handed manner in which the houses were demolished - without prior warning to the owners and despite the matter still being handled by their lawyers - infuriated POASM leaders enough to want to make their displeasure visible and loud. The…

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"The headman at Kampong Lalang has similar functions to that of a traditional Negrito leader; but he also acts as the representative of the villagers in their dealings with government officials. Today, this is in fact one of his most important…

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