internet: Sama-Bajau

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The Sama-Bajau include several Austronesian ethnic groups of Maritime Southeast Asia. The name collectively refers to related people who usually call themselves the Sama or Samah (formally A'a Sama, "Sama people"); or are known by the exonym Bajau (, also spelled Badjao, Bajaw, Badjau, Badjaw, Bajo or Bayao). They usually live a seaborne lifestyle and use small wooden sailing vessels such as the perahu (layag in Maranao), djenging (balutu), lepa, and vinta (pilang). They also use medium-sized vessels like the jungkung, timbawan and small fishing vessels like biduk and bogo-katik. Some Sama-Bajau groups native to Sabah are also known for their traditional horse culture. The Sama-Bajau are th…

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Baníg ( bə-NIG; Tagalog: [bɐˈnɪɡ]) are traditional handwoven mats of the Philippines predominantly used as a sleeping mat or a floor mat. Banig mats are typically made from pandanus or sedge leaves. They can also utilize other materials, including buri palm leaves, reed leaves, and rattan strips, depending on the region and ethnic group. The leaves are dried, usually dyed, then cut into strips and woven into mats, which may be plain or intricate. Prior to the motorization of native bangka and other traditional Filipino sailing vessels, banig made from pandanus leaves were also the material used as traditional sails by Filipinos and other Austronesians due to the natural salt-resistant prope…

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The Philippines is inhabited by more than 185 ethnolinguistic groups, many of which are classified as "Indigenous Peoples" under the country's Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997. Traditionally Muslim minorities from the southernmost island group of Mindanao are usually categorized together as Moro peoples, whether they are classified as Indigenous peoples or not. About 142 are classified as non-Muslim Indigenous people groups. Ethnolinguistic groups collectively known as the Lowland Christians, forms the majority ethnic group. The Muslim ethnolinguistic groups of Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan are collectively referred to as the Moro people, a broad category that includes some Indigenous p…

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Medicinal plants of Sabah (North Borneo): lest we forget.. Context The discovery of plants and bioactive compounds with the potential to become botanical or pharmaceutical drugs remains a cornerstone of drug innovation. Many of these valuable molecules originate from traditional botanical pharmacopeias, repositories of centuries-old knowledge that are often underappreciated in modern research. Objective This review highlights the medicinal plants identified in Sabah from 1922 to 2024, analyzing their taxonomical distribution, uses, utilization among ethnic groups, and their potential for clinical uses. Methods The data for this review were gathered from Google Scholar, PubMed, ScienceDirect…

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Ritual Dance and Performance in Contemporary Borneo: A Study of the Kadazan and Sama-Bajau Communities of Sabah, Malaysia. The state of Sabah, comprised of various indigenous ethnic groups, has inherited traditional beliefs and practices practised for a long time. Ritual practices carried on through inheritance have contributed to the musicscape and dancescape in Borneo. The Kadazan community of Penampang district inherited the sumazau dance, which used to be the main practice of rituals manifesting the balance between the physical world and the spiritual world, such as monogit and humabot rituals. Meanwhile, the Sama-Bajau Community in Sabah’s Semporna District manifests the bond between h…

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Structured vulnerability: nationality stratifies wages, working conditions, and labor rights among migrant workers in Malaysian oil palm plantations.. Malaysia's palm oil industry, the world's second-largest, depends on migrant labor, with foreign workers making up 80% of its plantation workforce. Despite well-documented labor exploitation, research has typically focused on single nationalities, overlooked the interplay of structural and individual factors, and largely excluded Thai workers from comparative analyses. This study addresses these gaps by comparing the experiences of Thai, Indonesian, and Bangladeshi migrants on plantations along the Thai-Malaysian border. The study uses in-dep…

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The ancestral population of modern Asian people has its origins in the two primary prehistoric settlement centres – greater Southwest Asia and from the Mongolian plateau towards Northern China. Migrations of distinct ethnolinguistic groups have probably occurred as early as 10,000 years ago. However, around 2,000 BCE early Iranian speaking people and Indo-Aryans arrived in Iran and northern Indian subcontinent. Pressed by the Mongols, Turkic peoples often migrated to the western and northern regions of the Central Asian plains. Prehistoric migrants from South China and Southeast Asia seem to have populated East Asia, Korea, and Japan in several waves, where they gradually replaced indigenou…

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The Bisaya people, or simply the Bisayas, are an Austronesian ethnic group indigenous to East Malaysia and Brunei. Their populations are concentrated within Sabah's Interior Division, specifically on Klias Peninsula; along the Padas and Klias riverbanks, down to the coastal estuary within the districts of Beaufort, Kuala Penyu, and Sipitang in the southwestern area; the Federal Territory of Labuan; and in the Lawas and Limbang districts of Sarawak. The Bisaya tribe bears many similarities to the Tatana Dusun tribe, especially in terms of language, as there is a high degree of mutual intelligibility between the two groups. In Brunei, they are referred to as both Dusun and Bisaya while being…

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This page documents the ethnic origins of Malaysian residents (citizens, landed immigrants, and non-citizen temporary residents) as recorded by them on their 2010 census form. The relevant census question asked for "the ethnic or cultural origins" of the respondent's ancestors and not the respondents themselves. As data were collected by self-declaration, labels may not necessarily describe the true ancestry of respondents. Also note that many respondents acknowledged multiple ancestries. These people were added to the "multiple origin" total for each origin listed. These include responses as varied as a respondent who listed eight different origins and a respondent who answered "Chinese Ma…

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Ethnic Acceptance Issues amongst Sabah and Sarawak Ethnic Groups at Sultan Idris Education University. Students enrolment toUPSIbring alongdifferences in various background aspects which includeethnic-related issues andpublic acceptancetowards such differences. These differences could create a few unintended problems such as discrimination, isolation, stereotypingandethnic conflictthat could threatthe nationalunityas it could alsodirectly affect students’ academicperformance.Currentresearchon multicultural problems in public universityhad not explored the issue seriouslyandmanymainlyfocused onmajorethnic groups in the country – Malay, Chineseand Indian. Meanwhile the study on other ethnic g…

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The Kadazan people, or simply the Kadazan, are an Austronesian ethnic group indigenous to Sabah, Malaysia. They primarily live in the West Coast Division, in the districts of Kota Kinabalu, Penampang, Putatan and Papar, the surrounding areas, and various locations in the Interior Division, such as Beaufort and Membakut, as well as, to a lesser extent, the eastern Kadazan of Labuk-Kinabatangan, as well as in the Federal Territory of Labuan. The Kadazan form another major indigenous ethnic group along the western coast of Sabah with rich traditional heritage, distinct attires, language and customs, with an estimated 568,575 (combined with the Dusun) spread across the state. They are among the…

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The Murut people or simply the Muruts is the collective name of an Austronesian ethnic group indigenous to Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia as well as North Kalimantan in Indonesia and Temburong District in Brunei. Within Sabah, they primarily live in the Interior Division, primarily in the districts of Nabawan (formerly Pensiangan), Tenom, Keningau, Sipitang and Beaufort and some are also found in the Sandakan and Tawau divisions, namely in the Tongod, Kinabatangan as well as Tawau districts. Within Sarawak, the Muruts are found within Lawas district in Limbang division, as well as in the Federal Territory of Labuan. Within North Kalimantan, the Muruts reside within both the Nunukan and Malin…