As part of a vibrant celebration of culture, community, and resilience, the Sama-Bajau Weaving and Cultural Center in Sitio Teheman, Maluso, Basilan has officially opened its doors. Spearheaded by the ...

KOTA KINABALU: A Bajau Sama community leader has cautioned against being swayed by political narratives from outside Sabah ahead of the state polls, warning that such rhetoric threatens the state’s ...

The Sama-Bajau are an Indigenous seaborne people from South-East Asia, sometimes called Sea Nomads. For thousands of years they lived a coastal subsistence lifestyle, foraging underwater without ...

Conceived as both a livelihood hub and a living cultural space, the center provides an environment where weavers can prepare materials, create, showcase, and sell their traditional pandan-woven crafts ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The papers of H. Arlo Nimmo document his field research among the Bajau (also known as Sama Dilaut) in Tawi-Tawi Province in the southern ...

Sea nomads have faced decades of discrimination in postcolonial Southeast Asia. Malaysia’s recent mass evictions of the Bajau Laut are just the latest example.

Abdul Kassim Razali (second from left), GRS candidate for Karambunai Arshad Idris (centre), and PRBSS vice-president Jumat Idris (second from right) officiating the launch of a community hall for the ...