Orang Asli

Group and location

Senoi

Negrito (Semang)

Southeast Kelantan

Southeast Kelantan

Northeast Perak and West Kelantan

Kedah-Perak Border

Northeast Pahang and South Kelantan

Northeast Kedah

North Perak and South Kelantan

Northwest Pahang and South Perak

Coastal Selangor

South Central Pahang

Central Pahang

Aboriginal (Proto) Malay

South Pahang and North Johor

East Johor

Central Pahang and East Negeri Sembilan

West and South Coasts of Johor

Selangor and Negeri Sembilan

Relationship between Orang Asli and various groups

Before WW2

Semai and Negrito still contacts with other communities

Senoi obtained commodities such as salt, jungle knives and metal axe heads by selling or exchanging jungle produce in the form of rotan, jelutong, bamboo and other items.

The Senoi and the Negrito (juggle-dwelling)

The Japanese Occupation

Orang Asli aided the Communist forces by providing porters, guides, food and intelligence on Japanese movements if the latter shoulf venture into deep jungle.

population of 50000, a staggering 30000 Orang Asli aided the communist guerrilas at one point during the Emergency period.

The jungle peoples became targets for communist propaganda

The Emergency period

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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.

The government's interest in the Orang Asli was seen as a critical matter of national security.

Post- Emergency period

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 the law grants to other sections of the community.

In 1961, the newly independent government, through the Ministry of Interior, published a "Statement of Policy regarding the administration of aborigine people of the federation of Malaya".

until today, the Orang Asli continue to be one pf the most marginalised groups in Malaysia