Orang Asli land threatened

Nowhere to go: Residents gathering outside as reporters visit their village in Gua Musang. — Bernama

GUA MUSANG: Alarmed by the rampant land clearing near their settlement to make way for agricultural activities, the Orang Asli residents of the Temiar tribe in Kampung Kelaik, Pos Blau, here have urged the state government to gazette their native customary land.

A resident, Uda Busu, 42, said only 100 people are left at the settlement from the initial 200 because most of them had to move to nearby iron ore mining areas as food and forest products were becoming scarce.