PETALING JAYA: Orang Asli groups and members of the community want the government to push ahead with revisions to the Aboriginal Peoples Act immediately and not wait for a study on the amendments to the Act to be carried out.
They said the Orang Asli community, now numbering over 170,000, was in urgent need of measures to protect their livelihood and resolve issues pertaining to logging, land occupancy and tenure.
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