Malaysia remains as a crossroad of different cultures and peoples, and it has long been recognized that studying its population history can provide crucial insight into the prehistory of Southeast Asia as a whole. The earliest inhabitants were the Orang Asli in Peninsular Malaysia and the indigenous groups in Sabah and Sarawak. Although they were the earliest migrants in this region, these trib...

Orang Asli (translated as “original peoples”) are the indigenous inhabitants of Peninsular Malaysia. They constitute a minority group making up approximately 0.6% of the total population of Malaysia. A high proportion in the Orang Asli community subsists on a level that is below the government’s poverty line income. Despite progress in economic development and continuous efforts by the governme...

BACKGROUND Despite the strategic development plan by the authorities for the Orang Asli, there are six subtribes of which their population numbers are small (less than 700). These minorities were not included in most of the health related studies published thus far. A comprehensive physiological and biomedical updates on these small subtribes in comparison to the larger subtribes and the urban ...

Orang Asli, the indigenous people of Peninsular Malaysia comprises only 0.5% of total Malaysia population but contribute to 0.06% of total notified HIV cases in the country. Their current knowledge, attitude and practice related to HIV was not known. A cross-sectional study on knowledge, attitude and practice among Orang Asli in Peninsular Malaysia was carried out involving 2706 Orang Asli from...

INTRODUCTION The Orang Asli are the indigenous population in peninsular Malaysia and are in fact a diverse sub-ethnic group with different languages. Our aim was to collect data on Orang Asli newborns, from western and central Pahang, that were admitted to a general hospital with paediatric specialist services. METHODS This is a retrospective study of all Orang Asli neonates admitted to the N...

The study's aim was to construct and validate a diabetes mellitus knowledge questionnaire in Bahasa Malaysia for Orang Asli (OA-DKQ). The questionnaire was administered to; case (Orang Asli) and control (administrative staff) groups at baseline and retested two weeks later. The Cronbach's Alpha was used to determine internal consistency and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was used to d...

Background Health status of aboriginal or indigenous as general is poor compared to the general population all over the world. The increasing trend of non-communicable diseases (NCD)among Orang Asli community became alarming to the health status of this marginalized group. The crude prevalence rate of diabetic and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) to be 1.3 and 10.7%, respectively among the Oran...

Over the past decades the field of education has witnessed the introduction of Internet, a new and revolutionary technology that seems to radically alter the way humans teach and learn. Offering thin client solution for Orang Asli provides opportunities for the team to undertake human-computer interaction related studies. Thin client is an effective and efficient ways to provide least computer ...

309 INTRODUCTION Malaysia is a multiethnic country with a population of 29.5 million people . The indigenous Orang Asli, also known as the original peoples of the Malay Peninsular consist of various aboriginal tribes and make up about 1% of the Malaysian population. The Orang Asli can be grouped into three major ethno-linguistic groups namely Negrito, Senoi and Proto-Malays. Within these major ...

An epidemiological cross-sectional study was undertaken to determine the endemicity of malaria among the Orang Asli population of Raub, Pahang. Malaria endemicity was measured in terms of the prevalence of parasitaemia and splenomegaly. A total of 520 Orang Asli were examined. The point prevalence of malaria was 24.2% (95% CI 20.7-25.1), with Plasmodium falciparum (67.5%) being the predominant ...