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Recently we reported that a group representing an NGO in Japan visited the Orang Asli village of Penderas in Kuala Krau, Pahang. The NGO is the Sapporo Freedom School and they work with the Ainu indigenous people who live on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.

The visitors were hosted by Shafie Dris, a coordinator with Jaringan Kampung Orang Asli Semenanjung Malaysia (JKOASM), an NGO that exists for the sole purpose of pushing for the rights of the Orang Asli.

Between the Ainu and Orang Asli, even though from distant countries, there is one common denominator; they have no rights over the land they live and work on. And this is the suffering of indigenous peoples throughout the world.

Take the village of Penderas. The Orang Asli of the Jahut people have lived in the area for hundreds of years; well before the British who came to colonise Malaya between the 18th and 20th centuries.

When the British came they gazette lands for forest and wildlife reserve, but did not allocate land for the Orang Asli already living in the area. Suddenly, the Orang Asli became squatters on land they have lived and worked on for hundreds of years earlier.

But some areas though were gazetted as Asli reserves by the colonial government but then came independence and Malaysian government had other thoughts about how to deal with the Orang Asli.
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