Lemang – Lemang is glutinous rice that is wrapped in banana leaf and filled into bamboo logs. It takes good amount of practice to cook the rice to perfection. It is eaten along with meat curry.

Umbut Bayas Masak Gulai – It is a scrumptious palm pith curry which is again cooked in bamboo logs.  The pith is the spongy, starch filled center of a palm stem.

Ketupat – They are rice cakes that are cooked in coconut leaves. The coconut leaves are weaved together to form little pockets. The pockets are filled with rice and steamed, till the rice puffs up and fills the coconut pocket.

The outside layer is made out of dried grass. These are the materials that makes a traditional skirt.

The standard of education among the Senoi people as an indigenous ethnic in Malaysia is still at a low level. 

The majority of the Senoi people receive formal education only at the primary level. 

However, there is a significant trend where the majority of students who completed their primary education will drop out from secondary school. 

Hence, only two percent have been successful in advancing their higher education in tertiary institutions. 

University Tenaga Nasional (Uniten) is the first private university in the country to offer higher education to the Orang Asli children, an indigenous group of Malaysia. Uniten Chairman Datuk Dr. Jamaluddin Jarjis felt that it was their social obligation to assist the government in improving the educational level for the rural indigenous communities.

What do you know about Food Taboo?
- Human use the term “food taboo” which refers to prohibition

- Avoid the food items for several reasons but not because human       
  dislike it but it’s due to tradition
Why some food being rejected by Senoi?
1.    Kindred spirit or special relationship of the animals.

2.    Consideration of food as unclean 

3.    Consideration of food as poisonous

4.    Fear of harmful effect following consumption of the food
Reasons
1)    Kindred spirit or special relationship of the animals.

·         Examples: Do not eat tiger as they believe sometimes tiger eat                human. Thus, tiger might contain human spirit

·         Do not eat pet as it consider morally wrong and take the animal’s            trust.
 

2)    Consideration of unclean food
·         Small lizard and leeches 

·         Animals that continuous contact with ground like snakes, lizard                and millipedes

·         Rat

3)    Consideration of poisonous food
.         Crow

·         Asiatic Toad 

·         Red-headed krait
4)    Fear of harmful effect following consumption of the food

·         Flesh of some animals believe to cause ‘sawan’ or convulsion 

·         Meat of larger or less commonly caught animal have stronger                  spirits and most likely to cause ‘sawan’ 

·         Strictly restricted to pregnant women and their husband and                    children 

Through this program, focus is given to financing farm development projects. This project is implemented through RISDA and FELCRA to develop palm oil and rubber plantations. This project is the main activity of the Department in an effort to reduce the incidents of poverty among the Orang Asli community.

The Expansion Program (course) is aimed to provide training and exposure to the Orang Asli community that have potential in plantation and modern farming projects. Among the courses that are implemented are the palm oil plantation maintenance courses, hydroponic plantations, rubber cultivation methods, livestock courses and others.

Through this program apart from promoting Orang Asli products, various incentives are available to Orang Asli start-ups who have attended entrepreneurship courses organised by the Department. Among the incentives provided are business equipment assistance, input material assistance and etc. Various business fields that are explored by the Orang Asli such as grocery stores, restaurants, vehicle workshops, cyber cafes, construction field and many others.

The Department has also allocated for the construction of premises for retail space to the Orang Asli people who are involved in business. The construction of retail space for the participants are subjected to the fixed criteria in the Guidelines for Providing Assistance to Entrepreneurs and Companies/Industry within the Orang Asli Community. Among the types of premises built are craft shops, grocery shops, motorcycle workshops, restaurants and tailoring shops.

Ministry of Rural and Regional Development (KKLW) through JAKOA provided the Income Generation Program (PPP) to achieve the goal of reducing extreme poverty in line with the government’s wishes. Among the assistance provided through this program are agricultural machinery equipment, fisheries input materials, fishing equipment, vegetation projects, potato plantations, lime plantations, tilapia fish farming, village poultry livestock, goats, and etc. Applications for participation in this program can be applied through the Orang Asli Affairs Office in the respective district, and a list of qualified candidates and attendees will be forwarded to the Government secretariat level to acknowledge the assistance of the project.