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- - - - Before WW2
        
        • This was due to the concentration of Chinese in urban centres and tin-mining districts.
        
        • Some Chinese traders, cultivators and timber workers did, however, have dealings with the jungle people and it seems that the relationships established were generally friendly and mutually advantageous.
        
        • A number of Chinese men married into Orang Asli communities, learnt their languages, and lived with the tribes.
        
        • The Chinese community in the Malay States had much less contact with the Orang Asli than did the Malays.
      - • Friendly contacts made by many Chinese with the OrangAsli before the war became invaluable during the Occupation.
        
        • The jungle peoples also became targets for Communist propaganda, which was particularly effective coming from
        men they trusted and whom they had known for years.
        
        • Members of the MPAJA carefully nurtured friendships with the Orang Asli and they even went as far as to protect the jungle peoples from the attacks of bandits and Japanese
        troops.
        
        • In return the Orang Asli aided the Communist forces by providing porters, guides, food and intelligence on Japanese
        movements if the latter should venture into deep jungle.
      - The Emergency Period
        
        Post-Emergency Period
        
        • It was hoped that the majority of the jungle communities couldbe persuaded or forced to leave their natural environment and
        to enter resettlement camps for the duration of the Emergency.
        
        • The success of resettling the Chinese led the authorities to believe that much the same tactics could be used with the Orang Asli in order to deny their support to the Communists.
        
        • The document stipulated "the aborigine being one of the ethnic minorities of the Federation must be allowed on an equal footing from the rights and opportunities which the law grants to other sections of the community".
        
        • It was also stated that the goal is "[the] ultimate integration [of theOrang Asli] with the Malay section of the community", but "special measures should be adopted for the protection of the institution, customs, mode of life, persons, property and labour of the aborigine people" (Department of Information, 1961: 3, 5).