via Straits Times, 28 January 2018: Several clans of Orang Laut (‘sea peoples’) are the indigenous population of Singapore, present before the founding of Singapore by the British. Today they are no longer seafaring and absorbed into the Malay ethnic group.
Singapore News -Ask 62-year-old university lecturer Mohamed Nassir Ismail about his roots and he will proudly declare that he is a “native Singaporean”.
Source: Sea nomads’ Singapore roots go back centuries, Singapore News & Top Stories – The Straits Times
