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Article: Orang Asli children on a city jaunt
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- October 4, 2002
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Guruchathram Ledchumanan
New Straits Times
10-04-2002
Orang Asli children on a city jaunt
Byline: Guruchathram Ledchumanan
Edition: 2*
Section: Anything Goes
Memo: (STF) - To the KLCC they go, crossing the skybridge between the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur. GURUCHATHRAM LEDCHUMANAN was there to record their fear and excitement.
WITH eyes as big as saucers, Duen Bakar, a 15-year-old from the Jahud tribe in Pahang, looked out of the bus we were travelling in, marvelling at a world he had never seen before, Kuala Lumpur.
He pulled back a bright red curtain further for a better view and stared at KLCC. The Petronas Twin Towers is an imposing alien structure for a boy accustomed to the ...