'Bumiputera' Orang Asli don't have 'special rights': experts

The question arose after Minister Nazri told Parliament that the term 'bumiputera' also included the Orang Asli of the Peninsular.

According to experts consulted by Malaysiakini, it is a little known fact but the Orang Asli are not included in the 'special privileges' category as defined by the federal constitution, 

The term 'bumiputera' is absent in the constitution and recognised to be a social-politcal invention of the BN government to place the Malays and other 'sons of the soil' in a category separate from other Malaysians.

'Pendatangs' had better be grateful since they are not living like the original Orang Asli who according to Orang Asli rights activist Suhaimi Saad, there are Orang Asli villagers in Pahang who live on RM10 a month while others live at rubbish dumps and source food from the trash.