To Malaysia Orang Asli and Orang Asal Community and their leaders _Part 2

How many percents of people speaking English in the world, this was the old data.

Saluton ! Welcome to Part 2.

How Esperanto can help the orang asli and orang asal community.

Here are some suggestions:

1.       Economy

2.       Knowledge

3.       Communication

4.       Indigenous peoples’ rights

Economy

If there is no hard work, there is no success. Money would not fall from the sky. Of course, there is no free lunches in the world too.

By acquiring Esperanto, orang asli and orang asal community can begin to know the world as Esperanto is recommended by UNESCO and UNWTO. The more people from the community learn and use Esperanto, more communications take place and with the cooperative resources from the community, they can begin some small business for the locals as well as import and export some of the products to the nearby countries in South East Asia or other parts of the world, like EU, which has strict import and export rules and regulations and the quality of the products.

Just within 6 months or less, the indigenous community can communicate with one another by means of modern technologies, short text message, WhatsApp, Line, WeChat etc.

Community strength is important. Just contribution of one ringgit a month, for ten people, it can be ten ringgit a month. Yes, ten ringgit these days can do nothing but it can top up the mobile and it already connect to the world through the abovementioned technology applications (apps).

Knowledge

Languages are in both forms, verbal and written. Of course, now include the sign language and the braille too. With language, we communicate and learn from one another. The exchange process we either gain or improve our view on development.

As the saying goes, knowledge is power. With the knowledge one has, the power to do thing is greater. Why the orang asli and orang asal do not have the means to communicate with other community? It is the language problem. Only a few privilege ones, who could go overseas to study and thus you think English is important and you wanted your children to spend the world life learning English but in the end the result is zero.

You have to consider each and everyone of us has different like of languages. As the Malaysia education system, that is left by the British colonial master, still make English a compulsory second language and the country has no language talents in other languages like Spanish, French, Portuguese etc. one very important fact is, not everyone is language lover and not every one like English language. Make a survey in your community to see the result.

Look at the Indigenous Esperanto website here.

http://www.etnismo.org/

Of course, Esperanto can be used in United Nations and UNESCO. The local newspapers always focus on English language report. With the Brexit in 2019, will English be the major language in the world? Or there will be a fight for the major language in EU again. Of course, France is again raring its ugly head to list French as the major language in EU like what France did in the past, blocked Esperanto as one of the official languages in League of Nations in 1920s. The France Chamber of Commerce also did a research, which showed that Esperanto is the best business language 9 decades ago. Of course it was again blocked by the government of France. Language tussle or fight cannot be ended if inequality exist.

Communication

There are 214 tribes in Malaysia. Though Malaysia has gained independence for almost half a century, the population censor board still cannot complete the survey of the tribes in Peninsula, Sarawak and Sabah. However, the government is trying to assimilate the indigenous people into the Malay tribes which was created by Dr. Mahathir decades ago.

Even among the orang asli and orang asal, from the Peninsula, Sabah and Sarawak, you are not able to communicate well as each tribal has its own language, it may have some similarities but not fully the same. With 6 months of learning of Esperanto, all indigenous people not only can communicate with the indigenous people locally but also communicate with the people, indigenous or not in the international level.

Yes, you do not read it wrong. Just 6 months, six months, 180 days. The world in the indigenous community will be changed.

With better communication, ideas will be exchanged and life will be changed.

Indigenous Peoples’ Right

On the international level, how you can communicate with the indigenous peoples in the South America like Brazil, Venezuela, Peru etc or in Europe or even in Asia like the Philippines and Thailand.

You may ask how many indigenous people in the world can speak Esperanto ? A good question. If there is no one begin to use Esperanto, there will be no one to join in. And the sufferings of learning English, Spanish etc. continues endlessly.

If Malaysian indigenous people, orang asli and orang asal can take a new step, not only you are changing your community, you are also helping the indigenous people in other parts of the world to change for better life.

One stone kills two birds.

Be brave to change. No change, no progress. No pain, no gain. Change is the most difficult process as one has to equip with new thoughts and physically movement.

We will meet in Part 3

How the Esperanto Association presented the issues in the UN. You can use Esperanto in the UN too.




Part One

https://jespako.blogspot.com/2018/09/to-malaysia-orang-asli-and-orang-asal.html

Part Three

https://jespako.blogspot.com/2018/10/to-malaysia-orang-asli-and-orang-asal.html