The Penan are a nomadic indigenous people living in Sarawak and Brunei, although there is only one small community in Brunei; among those in Brunei half...
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Penan, also known as Punan-Nibong, is a language complex spoken by the Penan people of Borneo. They are related to the Kenyah languages. Glottolog shows...
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by aboriginal people. The Western and Eastern Penan people are two major groups of Indigenous populations in Malaysia. The Eastern Penan are famous for...
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Bruno Manser (category Missing people)
rainforest preservation and the human rights of indigenous peoples, especially the Penan, which brought him into conflict with the Malaysian government...
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Indigenous rainforest blockades in Sarawak (category Dayak people)
Indigenous people of several groups along with international activists organised blockades to resist logging activities and dam construction. Penan, Kayan...
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Punan Bah (redirect from Punan Bah people)
and in Kalimantan, Indonesia. The Punan Bah people are distinct and unrelated to the semi-nomadic Penan people. Their name stems from two rivers along the...
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desserts boiled with sweetened milk on occasion of religious fasts. The Penan people of Borneo have sago from Eugeissona palms as their staple carbohydrate...
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Shahlan Ismail (category Living people)
three Catholic Priest discovered that the bridge that was connecting the Penan people to the main population was swept away by the strong current of the river...
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people of Borneo. It is also known as Parang Ilang among the Bidayuh, Iban and Penan people, Malat by the Kayan people or Baieng by the Kenyah people...
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Routledge. p. 54. ISBN 978-11-365-3809-4. Paul C. Y. Chen, ed. (1990). Penans: The Nomads of Sarawak. Pelanduk Publications. p. 35. ISBN 96-797-8310-3...
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Hunter-gatherer (category Anthropological categories of peoples)
Jarawa people (Andaman Islands) Kawahiva people Ket people Maniq people Mbuti people Mlabri people Moriori people Nukak people Onge people Penan people Pirahã...
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language of West Kalimantan, Indonesia, one of several spoken by the Penan people. Bukat at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) v t e...
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Tropical rainforest (section Indigenous peoples)
Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the Congo Pygmies in Central Africa, and several tribes in South-East Asia, like the Dayak people and the Penan people in...
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also has implications for sociology and self-organization of peoples. Study of the Penan people, for instance, reveals that their language employs six different...
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language of East Kalimantan, Indonesia, one of several spoken by the Penan people. The consonants /dʒ g j w/ only occur in loanwords. /b/ can be heard...
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Punan Bungan, is a Kayan language of West Kalimantan, Indonesia, one of several spoken by the Penan people. Hovongan at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) v t e...
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of people who disappeared mysteriously post-1990 and of people whose whereabouts are unknown or whose deaths are not substantiated, except for people who...
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around the park are the Orang Ulu, Kiput, Kenyah people, Kayan people, Mulut and Penan tribes. Penan people originally maintained a nomadic way of life, but...
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Sarawak, Malaysia. It endangers the rainforest being the livelihood of the Penan people. However, Interhill claims to be involved in sustainable forestry development...
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Billy Abit Joo (category Living people)
enquire into living conditions of the Penan people. He has called for the establishment of forest reserves for the Penans. In 2008, he crossed party lines...
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development and human rights. The prize has been awarded to a diverse group of people and organisations, including Wangari Maathai, Astrid Lindgren, Bianca Jagger...
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many years, and in the past had even resulted in a large number of people from the Penan ethnic group being rendered effectively stateless. In recent years...
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Orang Ulu (category Dayak people)
Apo Kayan people Kenyah people Sebop Kayan people (Borneo) Bahau people Kendayan Ukit people Penan Kajang Kajaman Lahanan Sihan Bukitan people Punan Uheng...
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in the Penan language (Ethnologue: pez) spoken by the Penan people have been available since 1974. A complete New Testament in Western Penan language...
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but the presence of a large hollow gland in its stipules. Among the Penan people it is called betolei, a name they also give to the much more common Prunus...
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the traditional area of the Orang Ulu (Upriver People), a collective name that includes the Penan people (about 10,000 overall), Kayan, Kenyah, Saban,...
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Pagong (Penan people), (Borneo). 4-string instrument, plucked. Pergram (Jah Hut people) idiochord Satong (Kejaman-Lasah people) (Kajang people) (Sarawak)...
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Svend Robinson (category Canadian people of Danish descent)
advocate of the rights of aboriginal peoples both in Canada and internationally. He stood at barricades with the Penan people in Sarawak, Malaysia and was condemned...
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Mikael Rothstein (category Living people)
is indigenous religions; he was the first researcher to describe the Penan people of Borneo. Among books he has written or co-edited are: Belief Transformations:...
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Tong Tana is a 1989 Swedish documentary film about the Penan people of Sarawak, Borneo, a federal state of Malaysia, and their struggle to protect their...
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