A family of the indigenous seaborne Bajau Laut community takes their early dinner inside their houseboat in Semporna, Malaysia August 20, 2024. (credit: REUTERS/Hasnoor Hussain) Salih’s family ...

Malaysia. Interestingly, some of them can dive up to 60 metres (200 feet) without oxygen tanks. Infact, some Bajau Laut intentionally rupture their eardrums at a young age to help them dive deeper.

Known as 'sea nomads', the Bajau Laut tribe have lived at sea for more than 1,000 years. Their lifestyle has given them the ability to stay underwater for very long periods of time. Travel ...

Total population in West Malaysia registered and provided paralegal assistance ... and Civil Society to develop and implement solutions-focused projects targeting Bajau Laut who are known to be ...

Exploring Malaysia’s vernacular architecture and ... and performances celebrating the local culture of the West Coast Bajau people, Ismail explains. “We hope our guests grow to understand ...

Sea nomads have faced decades of discrimination in postcolonial Southeast Asia. Malaysia’s recent mass evictions of the Bajau Laut are just the latest example.

COMMENT | Education is so important whether it is formal or informal. I have always believed that because it was also what I was taught as a child by my parents. They sent me to school and tried ...

Bilkuin Jimmysali, Enidah Mulsid and Shima Manan are barely out of their teens but they have been vested with the responsibility to provide basic education to the children of their Bajau Laut ...

A cornucopia of readily available ocean creatures that the Sampelan Bajau people can rely on when the weather is too bad to take to the seas. This isn’t going to settle down anytime soon.

For over 1,000 years, the Bajau people have lived almost entirely at sea, floating in houseboats and hunting beneath the waves like real-life aquatic hunters. Bajau free divers plunge 230 feet ...