ZAMBOANGA CITY (PIA) — The Municipal Government of Maluso, in partnership with Relief International and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, launched an economic development initiative ...
Like many other Bajau Laut in the region, Salih and his family gave up their houseboat and now live in a stilt house over shallow water. Lepas are costly and difficult to build, he says ...
Salih’s family is of an Indigenous background and is part of the Southeast Asian group of Bajau Laut. He has lived a semi-nomadic lifestyle on the ocean, much like his ancestors have for centuries.
The plight of indigenous yet stateless sea nomads in Malaysia’s Sabah has again come under the spotlight as authorities return to demolish more homes and villages, urging the community to ...
To most people, Salih’s free diving skills are highly unusual; but not to his community. Salih is Bajau Laut, an indigenous seafaring group in Southeast Asia that has lived a semi-nomadic lifestyle on ...
The Bajau Laut community is biologically adapted to life at sea. (Representational image) For centuries, the Bajau Laut, an indigenous seafaring community in Southeast Asia, have lived a semi ...