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HEALTH CARE FOR THE ORANG ASLI Consequences of Paternalism and Colonialism   Colin Nicholas Center for Orang Asli Concerns Adela Baer Oregon State University Revised manuscript of a paper presented at the workshop on ‘Healthcare in Malaysia’, Asian Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 9-11 September 2004 . Published in Chee Heng Leng & Simon Barraclough (2007), Health Care in Malaysia: …

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Mahathir and THE INVISIBLE ORANG ASLI Colin Nicholas Published in Bridget Welsh (Ed.) (2004), Reflections: The Mahathir Years. John Hopkins University, Washington DC., pp. 220-230. The Orang Asli  (original or  first  peoples) are the descendants of the earliest known inhabitants who occupied the Malay peninsula before the establishment of the Malay kingdoms. While some of their 780 …

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STORIES OF A PEOPLE: Asserting Place and Presence via Orang Asli Oral Tradition Colin Nicholas Paper presented at the one-day Seminar and Exhibition on Orang Asli Oral Tradition at the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia,Bangi, 8 September 2004 The teachings or ‘ancient wisdom’ of the Orang Asli are usually transmitted through …

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Orang Asli and the BUMIPUTERA POLICY Colin Nicholas Published as ‘The Orang Asli: First on the Land, Last in the Plan’ in: Richard Mason & Arifin S. M. Omar (Eds) (2005), The ‘Bumiputera Policy’: Dynamics and Dilemmas, special issue of Kajian Malaysia: Journal of Malaysian Studies, Vol. XXI, Nos. 1 & 2, July/December 2004, pp. 315-329. The Orang …

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FOR THE GOOD OF ALL Indigenous Peoples and Biodiversity Colin Nicholas Published in The Star (Environment), 3 February 2004, p. 4 When indigenous peoples’ rights to their knowledge, culture or territories are not recognised and protected, the consequences on the biodiversity can be immense. I REMEMBER meeting a traditional medicine peddler at a tamu (weekly market) in Tambunan, Sabah, …

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SHIFTING THE BLAME Forest Destruction and the Orang Asli Colin Nicholas COAC Information pamphlet, 1 June 2003, prepared in conjunction with Word Environment Day events at FRIM, KL. The Orang Asli, Peninsular Malaysia’s first peoples, frequently come under criticism for their system of agriculture, often derogatively referred to as ‘slash-and-burn’ or ‘shifting cultivation’. The accusation …

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RESETTLEMENT AND REPARATIONS of Dam-affected Peoples A Review of the Report of the World Commission of Dams with special reference to Malaysia Colin Nicholas Paper presented at the SOS Selangor workshop on the World Commission on Dams (WCD) Report, 30 June 2001, SCAH, Kuala Lumpur When the Bakun Dam in Sarawak was first mooted in the …

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SUHAKAM and the Indigenous Peoples’ Question Colin Nicholas Paper presented at the National Consultation on ‘SUHAKAM after 1 year: Has the state of human rights improved in Malaysia?’ organised by ERA-Consumer, 5 May 2001, Kuala Lumpur. I have been asked to evaluate the performance of the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) during its first year, insofar as the …

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PROFITING FROM INDIGENOUS PEOPLES Colin Nicholas   Paper presented at the conference on “People Before Profits: Development For Communities”, Kuala Lumpur, 4-5 November 2000 and subsequently published in Kua Kia Soong (ed.) (2001), People Before Profits: The Rights of Malaysian Communities in Development, SUARAM, Petaling Jaya, pp. 39-52. The term ‘profit’ is not found in any …

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JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS Review of Roy Jumper’s Orang Asli Now Colin Nicholas Narrative assessment of Roy Jumper’s manuscript on ‘Orang Asli Now: The Orang Asli in the Malaysian Political World’ on its merits for publication by a leading Asian publisher, 7 March 1999 I was really looking forward to reading the manuscript that promised to be …

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