Band-aid and Orang Asli’s trampled rights


Mustafa K. Anuar

Malaysia needs to uphold the Orang Asli's land rights instead of giving in to unsustainable economic development that threatens their way of life. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, November 24, 2019.

IT is heartening to learn that at last – after so many days of desperately seeking help – aid is scheduled to reach the 130 Orang Asli families in Pos Simpor near Gua Musang in Kelantan. 

They were on the verge of hunger as a result of recent floods that swept across their villages and their fruit and vegetable plots being trampled by rampaging elephants.


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