Temenggor Dam - Additional Displaced People
In addition to displacing the community of Kampung Temenggor, the construction of the Temenggor Dam led to over 875 Indigenous people being displaced in the 1970s. Indigenous groups displaced include: the Temiar, Jahai, Lanoh, and Semai peoples. The cover photograph is a Jahai child's depiction of the jungle in the Temenggor Dam's state of Perak.
About this community
- River
- Perak River
- Established
- 1972
- Inundated
- 1975
- Population
- 875
Sources
- Aiken, S. Robert, and Colin H. Leigh. “DAMS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN MALAYSIA: DEVELOPMENT, DISPLACEMENT AND RESETTLEMENT.” Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography 97, no. 1 (2015).
- https://www.sussex.ac.uk/cweh/research/academia_and_activism/blog/2018-01-19