Abstract
The Tenets of The Mah Meri Oral Tradition, Life Issues and Challenges in Pulau Carey, Selangor
Highlights
In Malaysia, the Indigenous people are known as ‘Orang Asli’ which is a Malay phrase for ‘Aborigines’ or ‘Indigenous’ and it is the official term that been used in Malaysia (Rosnon, 2014; Werner, 1997)
Covering the aspect of economics, politics, social, education, culture and belief system, and health and well-being, there are trend shown on how modernization has changed and affected the Mah Meri people’s lives
Findings and Discussions The tenets of the Mah Meri Oral Tradition Based on Welner (1974), there are over hundreds of Mah Meri folklore or oral traditions recorded, where each of the story revolve either around the story of Moyang or spirit, or just common folktales with learning and messages
Summary
In Malaysia, the Indigenous people are known as ‘Orang Asli’ which is a Malay phrase for ‘Aborigines’ or ‘Indigenous’ and it is the official term that been used in Malaysia (Rosnon, 2014; Werner, 1997). Gomes (2004) argued further that the exact definition of ‘Orang Asli’ refers to the indigenous people of Peninsular Malaysia only, who are not Malay-Muslim. Together with indigenous peoples of Sabah and Sarawak which are not called as ‘Orang Asli’, and the Malays, these peoples are the groups that known and recognized as ‘Bumiputera’, which makes up 65.1 percent from the total Malaysia population (see table 1). The portion the ‘Orang Asli’ which are the ‘Indigenous Peoples’ of Peninsular Malaysia is only from 0.5 to 1 percent, make them the minority group of Malaysia’s ‘Bumiputera’
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