Anak Dalam tribe needs attention

Anak Dalam tribe needs attention

JAMBI, Jambi: An organization fighting for the rights of the Anak Dalam tribe has called for the provincial legislature to do more to help improve the welfare of the indigenous tribe, which lives in the hinterland of the province.

"Councillors in the province and the region only seem to think about their own interests, forgetting about this tribe, known locally as Kubu," Budhi Vrihaspathi Jauhari, the organization's executive director, said here on Thursday.

Budhi said only foreign organizations, and local non- governmental organizations in cooperation with overseas institutions, had done anything to help the Kubu tribe.

He, however, lamented that certain groups had taken advantage of the tribe for personal gain.

He said that the tribe's settlement area in the Bukit Dua Belas National Park was dwindling in size because of the rapid expansion of oil palm plantations in the district.--Antara