Ideas to host webinar tomorrow on Orang Asli education

The Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (Ideas) will be hosting a public webinar tomorrow at 11am on the subject of Indigenous Children's Access to Education: Before & During Covid-19.

The webinar will feature such speakers as Universiti Sains Malaysia’s School of Computer Sciences dean Prof Bahari Belaton, Ideas' social policy research manager Wan Ya Shin, Anne Lasimbang of the Pacos Trust, and UTAR's Sumathi Rengnathan from the Department of Languages and Linguistics.

Ideas today published a policy paper drafted by Wan titled “Education Policies in Overcoming Barriers Faced by Orang Asli Children: Education for all”.

The paper is a baseline study based on...