Two Orang Asli boys photographed in July 2012. The Orang Asli are the indigenous people and the oldest inhabitants of Peninsular Malaysia. There is a high incidence of poverty among them — in 1997, 80 percent of all Orang Asli lived below the poverty line. This ratio is extremely high compared to the national poverty rate of 8.5 percent at that time.

First published in the August 29, 2019, 9:04 p.m. edition

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