Orang Asli hope their plights will be addressed


It’s a hard life: Kampung Denai Orang Asli Hanapi Titi (right) and Awang Kelang showing rain water that they store for their everyday use in Rompin, Pahang. — Bernama

GUA MUSANG: The Orang Asli community here hopes that the new unity government will continue to defend and focus on its infrastructure and socioeconomic development issues.

Kelantan Orang Asli chief penghulu Bidi Ronggeng said they also hoped that the new government could speed up the connecting roads to settlement areas such as in Pos Balar, Pos Belatim, Pos Hau, Pos Bihai, Pos Gob, Pos Simpor, Pos Pasik and Pos Tohoi, which are still using logging tracks.

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