Orang Asli, Acts That Bind

Orang Asli communities are asking why they have not been consulted over proposed amendments the Aboriginal People’s Act (1954). Free Malaysia Today reported that the community is “set to lose about 645,000 hectares of their native land if an amendment to the [Act], which will be tabled during the current parliament session, is passed.” Comprising less than one percent of the population, the Orang Asli community of the Peninsular have some of the worst social and economic indicators of any community. Their literacy rate is half that of the rest of the nation, and some 70 percent of the community lives in poverty.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.