COMMENT | Jakoa DG’s datukship won’t help Orang Asli’s ‘fading voices’

COMMENT | Last week, the Department of Orang Asli Development (Jakoa) director-general Sapiah Mohd Nor was awarded a datukship.

I’m sure the award was well deserved and Sapiah joins her brother, Dewan Rakyat deputy speaker Ramli Mohd Nor and relative Senator Ajis Sitin, among Orang Asli people who received such honours.

When receiving the award, Jakoa’s first female director-general said her department was actively conducting studies and engagement sessions to empower the Orang Asli Act 1954 (Act 134)...