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PHOTO ESSAY | Online classes at an Orang Asli forest education hut
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PHOTO ESSAY | As schools reopen this month with online classes, parents everywhere have had to scramble to ensure their children are connected. For some, the scramble is a 15km motorcycle journey on a lonely road, surrounded by thick oil palm forests.

Every day, Orang Asli children from the Jakun tribe leave their homes in Kampung Orang Asli Kemidak, Bekok, Johor and make their way to a makeshift wooden hut, made in a clearing in the middle of an oil palm estate.

The parents constructed the hut there...

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