Fast disappearing peat swamp forests
BY KURNIAWATI KAMARUDIN & SAKINI MOHD SAID The Selangor government’s proposal to degazette the North Kuala Langat Forest Reserve for development purposes has caused much consternation among nature lovers and environmental health specialists who are concerned about the dwindling size of Malaysia’s peat swamp forests. This first of a series of four articles examines the […]
Disappearing traditional Melanau treatment method
MUKAH: Around the 1960s until the 1990s, the sick in the Melanau community would usually undergo a pebayoh ceremony (a traditional Melanau treatment method) to seek treatment. In fact, I myself have undergone this ceremony and often saw it from the 1970s to the early 1990s. At that time, the famous bayoh (shaman) were the […]
