Malaysia's Orang Asli are learning to work around climate change

THE term “climate change” is quite new to the Temiar Orang Asli communities in Gua Musang, Kelantan, says Mustafa Along.

“Because we didn’t learn this in school,” explains the 37-year-old from Kampung Kaloy, one of several villages that dot the town, which in 2014 was the epicentre of the “bah kuning” event that devastated Kelantan (bah kuning means yellow floods, so named because of the floodwaters’ high mud content).