Orang Asli

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Group and Location

Relationships between Orang Asli and Various
groups

Proto-Malaya

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Senoi

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Live mainly on both slopes of the Range in Perak,Kelantan and Pahang

Central Pahang (Jah Hut and Chewong People)

Coastal Selangor (Mah Meri people)

South-central Pahang (Semoq Beri people)

Aboriginal Malays live mainly in the southern half of the Peninsula; in Selangor and Negeri Sembilan (Temuan people)

Central Pahang and east Negeri Sembilan (Semelai people)

South Pahang and north Johor (Jakun people)

East Johor (Orang Kanaq)

West and central coast of Johor (Orang Kuala, Orang Seletar)

Negrito

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)

During the Japanese Occupation of Malaya

The Emergency Period

Before WW2

Proto-Malays

The Senoi

Assimilated into the Malay Communities

Many have converted into Islam

Close contact with the Malays for 100s of years

Trading between Jakun & Malays

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Jakun works in Malay gold mines

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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

The Negrito

jungle-dwelling

More isolated from the outside world before WW2

Malays

Depent on the Orang Asli for international trade (Rattan,Resin, Gutta, Percha and Sandalwood)

Chinese

A number of Chinese men married into Orang Asli communities, learnt their languages and lived with the tribes

Colonal Views

Alfread Russell Wallace in 1865 , he describes the 'savages' as less civilised than the 'Mohametan' Malay races

Jungle peoples also became targets for Communist Propaganda

The Orang Asli aided the Communist forces by providing porters, guides, food and intelligence on Japanese movements if the latter should venture intro deep jungle

The relationship between the Chinese a invaluable

From 1947 to 1949, Under the British Military Administration the welfare of the Orang Asli came under the jurisdiction of the Department of Social Welfare

Thousand of Orang Asli resettled into hastily prepared camps surrounded by barbed wire to prevent their escape

Orang Asli were the main interest of the British administration

Post-Emergency Period

National Poverty Rate

Health

Orang Asli

50% of households live below the poverty line

19% considered hardcore poor

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

Jabatan Hal Ehwal Orang Asli was formed

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In 1961, the newly independent government, through the Ministry of Interior published a "Statement of policy regarding the adminstration of aborigine people of the federation of Malaya. This document reaffirms the new government's intention to continue to protect and recognise Orang Asli rights.