Orang asli issues: Access to education still difficult

Eager to learn: A Penan girl in class at a remote school in Baram, Sarawak. — Filepic

Getting to school can be difficult when you have to travel for hours by boat.

TELANG Usan state assemblyman Dennis Ngau is worried that the number of indigenous students in most of the primary schools in middle and upper Baram, Sarawak, is dropping – especially among the Penans.