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A group of Kubu people in the 1930s in Jambi, Sumatra. The Orang Batin Sembilan, Orang Rimba or Anak Dalam are mobile, animist peoples who live throughout the lowland forests of southeast Sumatra. Kubu is a Malay exonym ascribed to them. In the Malay language, the word Kubu can mean defensive fortification, entrenchment, or a place of refuge.
Orang Seletar (also known as Selitar or Slitar) are one of the 18 Orang Asli ethnic groups in Malaysia. [4] They are classified under the Proto-Malay people group, which forms the three major people group of the Orang Asli. [5] The Orang Seletar are also considered as part of the Orang Laut, [6] natives of the Straits of Johor; separating ...
v. t. e. In Indonesian folklore, the Orang Pendek ( Indonesian for 'short person') is the most common name given to a creature said to inhabit remote, mountainous forests on the island of Sumatra. The creature has allegedly been seen and documented for at least 100 years by forest tribes, local villagers, Dutch colonists, and Western scientists ...
Orang Sungai. The Orang Sungei ( Malay word for "River People") are a group of indigenous people native to the state of Sabah, Malaysia. Groups of communities live along the rivers of Kinabatangan, Labuk, Kudat, Pitas and Lahad Datu. [1] The name "Orang Sungei" is a collective term that was first coined during the colonial British rule for ...
Orang Ulu ("people of the interior" in Malay) is an ethnic designation politically coined to group together roughly 27 very small but ethnically diverse tribal groups in northeastern Sarawak, Malaysia with populations ranging from less than 300 persons to over 25,000 persons. Orang Ulu is not a legal term, and no such racial group exists or is ...
Malaysia. Orang Asli ( lit. "native people", "original people", or "aboriginal people" in Malay) are a heterogeneous indigenous population forming a national minority in Malaysia. They are the oldest inhabitants of Peninsular Malaysia . As of 2017, the Orang Asli accounted for 0.7% of the population of Peninsular Malaysia. [2]
The Brunei History Centre ( PSB; Malay: Pusat Sejarah Brunei) is a government institution which conducts research, documentation, publication and dissemination on matters pertaining to the history of Brunei. [1] It was established in 1982 by the consent of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah as an institute of historical research on Brunei for the benefit ...
The Malay Annals ( Malay: Sejarah Melayu, Jawi: سجاره ملايو), originally titled Sulalatus Salatin ( Genealogy of Kings ), [1] is a literary work that gives a romanticised history of the origin, evolution and demise of the great Malay maritime empire, the Malacca Sultanate. [2] The work, which was composed sometime between the 15th and ...