One evening in November 2021, in the village of Kampung Kaloi in Malaysia’s Kelantan state, villagers gathered at the community hall. Their blind shaman, Along Busu, sat alone and stared straight ...

This edited article by Sabrina Aripen with contributions from WITNESS ASIA-PACIFIC team was published on March 8, 2023 by WITNESS, an international organization that supports people using video in ...

PETALING JAYA: Four women graduated from Malaysia Airlines’ training academy this year and became its first Orang Asli cabin crew members. The four were among the 56 cabin crew members who graduated ...

For the Orang Asli, the indigenous and oldest inhabitants of Peninsular Malaysia, the fear of disappearing from their homeland is very real. Oppressed and disdained by other Malaysians and with the ...

GUA MUSANG, Jan 9 (Bernama) -- An operation to airlift more than 17 tonnes of basic food supplies to Orang Asli communities ...

For 16 months, indigenous Orang Asli villagers of Kampung Mesau in Malaysia have been living at a fork in a logging road. In the Chini-Bera forests in Pahang, they have built a wooden blockade to stop ...

HE was just a carefree child living life in the jungle where shades of green rustled in the wind and river water ran clear. That serenity came to a halt when predatory land developers encroached upon ...

For many, Merdeka is all about vibrant parades and the Jalur Gemilang fluttering in the breeze. But what does this day mean to the Orang Asli communities who often watch from the fringes? As the first ...

The issue of Orang Asli schoolchildren dropping out of school has been a longstanding one despite efforts taken by government and private agencies and NGOs to encourage them to complete their ...

The Malaysian Bar has rejected a proposal to place Orang Asli matters under the constitution’s Concurrent List, which outlines matters that both the federal and state governments have authority to ...

A Malaysian judge has upheld the appeal of a small tribal group in Pahang State, ordering the case to be heard by the High Court. They claim that they have always professed a traditional animist ...

The victory for Barisan Nasional (BN) in the by-election in the Cameron Highlands demonstrated the way in which Orang Asli voting patterns have only slowly shifted toward the ruling Pakatan Harapan ...