orang

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The Orang Laut kept the seas in the area free of pirates, and Arab, Persian, Indian, and Chinese merchants came to do business.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

In the forests of the Kinabatangan floodplain in Malaysian Borneo, a wildlife research group works with the Orang Sungai Indigenous community to monitor biodiversity.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2022

He's an Orang Rimba - one of the last nomadic tribes in Indonesia.

From BBC • May 22, 2022

The development has pushed most Orang Rimba, an ethnic group on Sumatra whose name literally means the “people of the forest,” to a life of poverty in remote areas.

From Time • Dec. 1, 2016

Two of the grandchildren of the Orang Kaya were at my school at Temudok for some time.

From Children of Borneo by Gomes, Edwin Herbert