Development – led marginalisation: a historical analysis of the Jahai in RPS Air Banun from the early 1900s to the 1980s

• Main Authors: Ronzi Mohd Yusoff, Sharina Abdul Halim, Mustaffa Omar, Joy Jacqueline Pereira, Hood Salleh
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of the Malay World and Civilization, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12465/1/jatma-2018-06SI1-09.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12465/; http://www.ukm.my/jatma/jilid-6terbitan-khas-bil-1/
• Institution: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

The Jahai from RPS Air Banun are amongst the indigenous ethnics found in Peninsular Malaysia who still grapple below the stated level of poverty. Various efforts have been initiated with intentions of extracting them from their traditional ways of life in order to live on par amongst the multicult...