Temenggor Dam - Displaced People
The construction of the Temenggor Dam led to over 1500 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
- 1,500
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