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The indigenous peoples of Brunei are Bruneian people who belong to the ethnic groups considered indigenous to the country. It is more commonly attributed to indigenous people of the Malay race belonging to the seven ethnic groups, namely: Brunei , Tutong , Belait , Dusun , Murut , Kedayan and Bisaya .
Malaysia's rate of deforestation is the highest in the tropical world (142 km 2 /year) losing 14,860 square kilometres since 1990. The Borneo lowland rain forest , which is the primary habitat of the Penan, and also the most valuable trees have disappeared.
The northwest coast of Borneo, areas with large concentration of Bruneian Malays in Brunei and East Malaysia. As per an official statistics, the "Bruneian Malays" term only became official after the 1921 Brunei Ethnic Categories Census, which is different from the 1906 and 1911 census which only mentioned "Barunays" (Brunei's or Bruneian).
The Tutong people are the traditional speakers of the Tutong language (Basa' Tutong), an Austronesian language.It is considered endangered. [12] Notable initiatives to revitalise the language include the publication of a bilingual dictionary between Tutong and Malay by the Language and Literature Bureau, the Bruneian language authority, and the introduction of Tutong as a language subject in ...
Mumong Landless Indigenous Citizens' Housing Scheme (Malay: Skim Tanah Kurnia Rakyat Jati Mumong) is the public housing estate in Mumong, and one of such estates in the country under the programme of its namesake, which is a government housing programme specifically for the rakyat jati or the indigenous citizens of Brunei. [16] [17]
Classical Malay dress varies between different regions, but the most profound traditional dress in modern-day are Baju Kurung (for women) and Baju Melayu (for men), which both recognised as the national dress for Malaysia and Brunei, and also worn by Malay communities in Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Myanmar and Thailand.
The Belait people originated from the merger between two ethnic groups, namely the Belait jati (i.e. the 'native' Belait) and the Lemeting or Meting. [2] [3] The latter was originally native to Tinjar River, a tributary of the Baram River in Sarawak, Malaysia; they later migrated to the area of, and eventually integrated with, the 'native' Belait.
The word Dusun is a Malay term that literally means "people of the orchards." It was originally used to refer to groups of people living in the inland regions of North Borneo. In the context of the Dusuns in Brunei, their contact with coastal Malays led to the imposition of the "Dusun" ethnic label.