Political science project, indigenous people in malaysia

Today me and my political science group mates went and did our research project in an orang asli village near kampar.
it was kinda shocking that there was a rural village just in the outskirts of
kampar town.
if it was not for this assignment, we would have never know that such place exist
and that these people do not get benefits like we, who lives in the town does.

We set off at 1.20pm from our university and picked up a church pastor who is also an orang asli from a primary school and set out to our destination.
the pastor was like a translator and a guide to us,
because there was some language barrier and we do not know the place at all.
the people there was really friendly and greeted us warmly.
when we started doing our research by asking them questions,
they did not kept any information to their selves and answered all our questions sincerely.
they even offered us drinks during the interview session.
the whole trip roughly lasted for 2 hours before we packed our stuff and left.


these were the lovely indigenous people who welcome us warmly ^^


this is a picture we took when we were leaving XD



this is the pastor who brought us here, without him, we will not make it there =P
thank you pastor!!!


This assignment was one of the most meaningful thing i've did.
it really gave me insight of how the indigenous people of malaysia lived.
and it also made me realise how unfair our country treatment is towards them.
we did an education survey on the children there.
and it shock me and my group mates when we got to know that a girl age 12 is not going to school because of various reasons.
i thought not being able to go to school was stories we watch from tv or a story book.
i never really gave much thought on this problem until now.
it kinda made me realise that not only this girl is facing this problem.
many more out there might be the same.
this trip really made me open my eyes to more social problems that my country is facing now.