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Orang Asli - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Comprise the kensiu people (Northeast Kedah)
      - Kintak people (Kedah-Perak border)
      - Jahai people(Northeast Perak and west Kelantan)
      - Mendriq people (Southeast Kelantan)
      - Lanoh people (North-Central Perak)
      - Batek people(Northeast Pahang and South Kelantan)
  - - - Live mainly on both slopes of the Range in Perak,Kelantan and Pahang
- - - - Assimilated into the Malay Communities
      - Many have converted into Islam
      - Close contact with the Malays for 100s of years
      - Trading between Jakun & Malays
      - Jakun works in Malay gold mines
    - - More isolated from the outside world before WW2
        
        Obtained commodities (salt,parang and metal axe head) by selling/exchanging jungle produce (rotan,jelutong,bamboo)
        
        Jungle-dwelling
    - - jungle-dwelling
      - More isolated from the outside world before WW2
    - - Depent on the Orang Asli for international trade (Rattan,Resin, Gutta, Percha and Sandalwood)
    - - A number of Chinese men married into Orang Asli communities, learnt their languages and lived with the tribes
    - - Alfread Russell Wallace in 1865 , he describes the 'savages' as less civilised than the 'Mohametan' Malay races
  - - - 3.8% poverty
      - 0.7% harcore poor
    - - 53.6% of the total malaria cases recorded in Peninsular Malaysia in 2003
      - 80% of Orang Asli children are undernourished and stunted, many have intestinal worms, protozoa, anaemia, dental caries and vitamin A deficiency
    - - 50% of households live below the poverty line
      - 19% considered hardcore poor