Lecturer becomes first Orang Asli woman to receive prestigious Merdeka Award Grant

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Thirty-three-year-old lecturer Masni Mat Dong, who has just passed her doctorate a month ago, has become the first and only female Orang Asli to receive the Merdeka Award Grant for International Attachment.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/3r38v42w  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 Hello all the viewers here. She is currently a lecturer at Kuantan in UNICEF.

00:05 In fact, Masir today was featured on the front page of the Salah Lajjia, a fashion.

00:10 Do you think that there is enough awareness or there's enough being done to highlight the plight

00:17 of the Orang Asli? In my personal point of view, I think that there is awareness of that but

00:24 we just haven't got there yet. So we, especially as a young researcher, we should work more

00:31 like let the Malaysian know that Orang Asli is also part of the community, that we also want to

00:38 you know do all the things together, contribute to the socio-economics of Malaysia.

00:43 So yeah, all right. Now what do you think can be done to bridge the gap between the Orang Asli

00:50 communities and help address these issues related to multi-dimensional poverty?

00:55 All right, so multi-dimensional poverty, let me explain. I mean that traditionally we measure

01:02 poverty by using incomes. So multi-dimensional poverty is using a different dimension such as

01:10 living standards, such as income. Income is part of that but not the main one actually

01:18 and also education and also living standard that I mentioned just now. I'm not sure

01:22 because I'm very nervous. Okay, don't be. All right, so it's actually how are we going to

01:30 understand the poverty that faced by the indigenous people? So we have to understand from the

01:35 multi-dimensional dimensions. So not only that, I also integrate spatial justice in my research. I

01:43 mean that combining multi-dimensional poverty and also spatial justice, how the individual itself

01:49 actually can do, I mean that can achieve, can do more on the space that they have, not only individual

01:57 as in also community. So that is my work. So I hope that from that understanding, I mean not

02:05 only we understand, not only we measure the person whether he or she is poor by just looking at the

02:13 income but we look at the different dimension. That's why we call that multi-dimensional poverty.

02:19 Thank you very much. Thank you, Masni.

02:22 Thank you.

02:23 Thank you.

02:24 Thank you.

02:25 Thank you.

02:26 Thank you.

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