Empower indigenous youths to produce community maps of traditional boundaries through training and mentorship from elders. Creation of national knowledge management platform to compile all existing community maps and updated with new information collected by the youths.
JOAS was established as a national network of indigenous peoples’ organizations in Malaysia in 1992 during the first Indigenous Peoples National Workshop. After a series of discussions and meetings, JOAS was informally established in 1996 and later legally registered under a trading license in 2009, with its national secretariat based in Penampang, Sabah, Malaysia. JOAS’s mission is to attain full protection of rights of Indigenous Peoples in Malaysia through advocacy and campaigns, capacity building, networking, media and information dissemination and research and database development.
