In Australia:
Australia's 460,000 Aborigines make up about 2 percent of the country's 21 million population
and have consistently higher rates of unemployment, substance abuse and domestic violence as well as a life expectancy 17 years less than other Australians.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised in February for the historical mistreatment of Aborigines, including a decades-old assimilation policy under which children were forcibly removed from their families.
The government says progress has been made in getting Aboriginal children into schools and providing basic healthcare.
Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin said in a statement on Friday the government was committed to the plan.
But 100,000 Aborigines still live in squalid housing and many children are still absent from school, figures show, and communities themselves report mixed results.
In Malaysia:
The government agency entrusted to oversee the affairs of the Orang Asli is the Jabatan Hal Ehwal Orang Asli (Department of Orang Asli Affairs) (JHEOA). This body is under the Malaysian Ministry of Rural Development, and it was first set up in 1954. Among its stated objectives are to eradicate poverty among the Orang Asli, improving their health, promoting education, and improving their general livelihood. There is a high incidence of poverty among the Orang asli.
The Orang Asli are theoretically classified as Bumiputras, a status signifying indigeneity to Malaysia which carries certain social, economic, and political rights, along with the Malays and the natives of Sabah and Sarawak
2 comments:
Did you try to compare what Australia and Malaysia do in order to prevent poverty of "orang asli" in each country?
More and less. At least Malaysia has moved a few steps forward than Australia, although there are still many things to be fixed.
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