The Batek of Malaysia

One of the most interesting indigenous peoples in the world is Batek in Malaysia, a group of people living in the oldest tropical rainforest on the Malaysian Peninsula. Orang ASli means "primitive" in native Malay, in this country it is really primitive people. To be a hunter and a collector of a nomad group means that they are dominated by the factors of land and survival. The idea of ​​Batek points out that tropical rainforests are caused by "superman" used by Batek When Batek leaves the tropical rain forever forever, it destroys the world and everything in it (K.M.

The Batek community is one of the multicultural groups of the orangari people of Central Malaysia. Endicott (2004) describes Bateks as an indigenous population living in a rainforest on the Malaysian peninsula in the Malaysian Peninsula's book Batek. According to Endicott, the word "Batek" was first used by colonists in the South Island. These settlers arrived in Southeast Asian islands on a boat. Today, due to aggression, Batek lives mainly in Taman Negara National Park. They are nomads and collectors and the exact location of their place of residence depends mainly on the general extent of the area where they live. Batek has existed as a nomadic society and collecting society for centuries. They have established and maintained a rather unique culture from Malaysia's social structural rules of the general society (Endicott, 2004; Endicott, 1974).

Taman Negara National Park is one of the oldest parks in Malaysia. Endicott (1974), known as Batek Negrito: Economic and Social Organization in the doctoral thesis, said this park was built in 1939, is located in the Malay Peninsula and occupies an area of ​​about 1,300 kilometers Did. In the late 1960s, the tourism activities of Taman Negara started to increase. This attracted much of Batek's jungle instruction work in Kuala Hut. In 1979, the Malaysian government relocated Batek to a settlement plan with government subsidies established at Kuala Atok outside the park border, and began relocating. There are several factors behind this government decision. The first problem is that because of their semi-nomadic existence, Batek is forced to provide information and financial support to them, mixed with communist terrorists hidden in the jungle is.