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