{"id":129,"date":"2017-02-19T02:28:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T02:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taman-negara.net\/v1\/?p=129"},"modified":"2017-02-19T03:12:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T03:12:59","slug":"orang-asli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taman-negara.net\/v1\/orang-asli\/","title":{"rendered":"Orang Asli"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>The aborigines<\/strong>, or commonly called &#8220;Orang Asli&#8221; simply means &#8220;original people&#8221; in the Malay language. They were the first human occupants of the Malay Peninsula.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They continue to live a nomadic, hunting-and-gathering lifestyle call themselves Batek. Recently, there has been some intermarriage with the neighbouring Semokberi group.<\/p>\n<p>The Batek is a gentle race of people, short in stature, dark-skinned and with tight curly hair. (The Semokberi have wavy hair). Their habitations are simple, palm-thatched shelters, one for each family group, with several families usually staying together. You may see some of the shelters alongside the trails. Overall Batek population in Taman Negara area is estimated at 2,000 people but you may encounter less than 500 people only along Tembeling River.<\/p>\n<p>The Batek depend largely on forest produce for their food supply- fruits, yams, and small animal life such as monkeys and squirrels which are hunted with a blowpipe.<\/p>\n<p>The Batek have their own language but also speak Malay. A visit to Orang Asli Settlement is possible as long as a recognised guide accompany you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aborigines, or commonly called &#8220;Orang Asli&#8221; simply means &#8220;original people&#8221; in the Malay language. They were the first human occupants of the Malay Peninsula. They continue to live a nomadic, hunting-and-gathering lifestyle call themselves Batek. Recently, there has been some intermarriage with the neighbouring Semokberi group. The Batek is a gentle race of people,&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/taman-negara.net\/v1\/orang-asli\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-orang-asli","xfolkentry","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taman-negara.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taman-negara.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taman-negara.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taman-negara.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taman-negara.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/taman-negara.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/taman-negara.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taman-negara.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taman-negara.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taman-negara.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taman-negara.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}