Dato’ Dr. Wazir Jahan Begum Karim did
ASERA-led campaign to preserve the Masjid
thumb: she maintains a garden, and has
not earn all these distinctions, awards, and
Melayu Lebuh Acheh land from being turned
successfully grown avocados - not native
knowledge just by going from one university
into an apartment block. Other projects
to her country and very difficult to cultivate.
to another, learning if not teaching. For her,
involved promotion of the Nusantara textile
She has since encouraged people to grow
experience is the best teacher. To collect data
industry, preservation of the Orang Asli
their own avocado trees since the Malaysian
for anthropological research for her books,
arts, and various discourses on the culture,
climate is suitable for it.
she actually lived with an indigenous group
history, and heritage of several aboriginal
in Malaysia, the Ma’ Betisé’, for two years in
communities in Malaysia.
If it weren’t for Wazir Jahan’s work,
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Aung San Suu Kyi: A Story of Compassion, Bravery and Forgiveness
the mangrove forests of west Malaysia. She
Seeing such a busy woman, it is tempting
would have become extinct or endangered,
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literally “rolled up her sleeves and waded
to ask oneself, “What does she do in her
and there wouldn’t have been as many
Indonesian Culture: Intertwined with Age-old Traditions, Religion, and Art
waist-deep”, for she lived their way of life,
free time? Does she even have free time?”
advancements in gender equality in Malaysia
eschewing modern comforts, and hunted
You would be surprised. Wazir Jahan, when
as there are now. There probably wouldn’t be
animals for food, worked in the fields, shared
not fighting for the rights of women and
avocados grown locally