03/09/2025
World Premiere of the new documentary by Joo Peter “Bajau Laut - the Sea is our Home” in Cinema Paradiso Ubud, September 6, 7pm.
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🗓️ 6 September , 7pm
Their stilt houses are burnt down, their boats destroyed: indigenous people like the sea nomads in Malaysia are denied citizenship and passports as they are disenfranchised as stateless people. But centuries of history and the graves of their ancestors on the Malaysian islands are proof of their roots.
As stateless people, the children of the sea nomads are not allowed to attend state schools, so artists and activists have founded schools in the stilt villages. But the students are repeatedly arrested and harassed.
The film portrays three Bajau Laut communities and their activists fighting for basic rights: in Tetagan, Omadal and Semporna.
The activists help the indigenous community to raise their voice and create new hope for the sea nomads.
