Minister P. Waythamoorthy (kneeling) launches the book while (from left) Dr Sarjit Singh Gill, Dr Roslan Rosnon and other UPM personnel look on.
SERDANG: The development of the orang asli should be based on the needs of the community itself, rather than dictated to them from the top down, says a social anthropologist.
Prof Dr Sarjit Singh Gill of the Human Ecology faculty of Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) said this was so they would not be labelled as "anti-development" when they rejected what was given to them.
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