{"id":30720,"date":"2020-05-17T15:07:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T13:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/istana.synology.me\/wordpress\/?page_id=30720"},"modified":"2022-04-13T18:41:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:41:06","slug":"1990-carey-island","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/istana.synology.me\/wordpress\/mit-liv\/malaysia\/aar-1990\/1990-carey-island\/","title":{"rendered":"1990 Carey Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

1. juli 1990<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carrie Island med tr\u00e6sk\u00e6rer og kulsvierlandsby<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Carrey Island ligger i n\u00e6rheden af Crab Island, og p\u00e5 denne \u00f8 bor der en orang asli mand, som kan lave nogle flotte tr\u00e6figurer, som er ber\u00f8mte ihvertfald ude i Malaysia. Han er godt nok ved at l\u00e6re sin s\u00f8n op, men desv\u00e6rre er tr\u00e6et, som figurerne er lavet af, ved at v\u00e6re udryddet, s\u00e5 dette h\u00e5ndv\u00e6rk han nok talte dage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Man skulle tro, at der var skiltning, og at det ville v\u00e6re let at finde stedet, n\u00e5r det nu er s\u00e5 ber\u00f8mt. Men det var helt bestemt vanskeligt at finde, selv om nogle at deltagerne har v\u00e6ret der f\u00f8r, og jeg er sp\u00e6ndt p\u00e5, om vi overhovedet finder derud igen. Vi har nemlig bestilt en figur og en maske, som vi kan hente den 30 oktober, s\u00e5 vi bliver jo n\u00f8dt til at g\u00f8re fors\u00f8get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vi var 12 danskere samt Claude og Anita p\u00e5 turen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carey Island is a large flat island off the west coast of Peninsula Malaysia in the Kuala Langat district of Selangor state.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

It is huge, about 32,000 acres or roughly a fifth of the size of Singapore. Although technically an island, it does not really feel like one since it is only separated from the ‘mainland’ by the Langat River which is not that wide in places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil Palm Plantations<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Carey Island is named after a successful British coffee and rubber planter called Valentine Carey who cleared much of the natural vegetation for agricultural uses just over 100 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today it could be called Sime Darby Island because that company’s oil palm subsidiaries dominate the landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neat plantations of oil palm trees stretch for miles supplying the raw materials for the palm oil refineries and bio-diesel plants found on the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The oil palm industry is sometimes criticised by environmental groups on the grounds that it is displacing rain forests and harming wildlife. That would be true if virgin jungle were being destroyed to plant oil palms but that is not the case on Carey Island which was cleared long ago by Mr. Valentine and his successors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The productive life of an oil palm plantation is about 30 years which gives birds and mammals stability for a much longer period than for other crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sime Darby, which is the world’s largest palm oil producer, has pioneered environmentally friendly practices in their plantations such as reduced use of herbicides, using barn owls to control the rat population and planting the fringes of plantations with natural vegetation to allow beneficial insects to thrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Carey Island, Sime Darby has replanted some endangered trees and plants and is working to regenerate mangrove growth along the island’s shores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mah Meri Wooden Carvings<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

From the tourist’s point of view the main attraction on Pulau Carey is the aboriginal community, the Mah Meri, one of 18 Orang Asli tribes living in Malaysia (orang aslimeans original people).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This community of around 1400 people is famous for its unique wooden statues and masks carved from a rare red swamp hardwood called Nyireh Batu which belongs to the mahogany family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are said to be around 25 craftsmen and they can produce over 100 different designs, each with its own significance and purpose in their culture. The best place to see them is Kampung Sungei Bumbun where there are a couple of stalls and a newly built craft centre which has never been open on my two visits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can buy these carvings or request them to make one for you. They are not cheap but they take weeks to make and the wood is becoming increasingly rare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gitte og jeg bestilte s\u00e5dan en “tiger”, som den p\u00e5 billedet nedenfor. Det ville tage nogle uger at lave den, s\u00e5 vi skulle tilbage igen senere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tigeren, med sammenh\u00e6ngende ringe og en l\u00f8s kugle i munden er sk\u00e5ret ud af et enkelt styukke tr\u00e6 – alts\u00e5 ingen sammenf\u00f8jninger noget sted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

De andre bestiilte ogs\u00e5 forskellige figurer, men vores tiger er og bliver nu alts\u00e5 den flotteste – og dyreste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vi blev trakteret med friske kokosn\u00f8dder, som de lige klatrede op i palmen efter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Det har aldrig lige v\u00e6ret vores favoritdrink, men det var da en s\u00f8d tanke..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carrie Island med kulsvierlandsby<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Efter bes\u00f8get hos tr\u00e6sk\u00e6reren, k\u00f8rte vi hen til en kulsvierlandsby, hvor befolkningen lever af at lave tr\u00e6kul. Det skete i nogle store ovne inde i et hus, der var fyldt med r\u00f8g. Vi kunne n\u00e6sten ikke tr\u00e6kke vejret derinde, men for arbejderne var det en daglig rutine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I landsbyen havde de en lille restaurant med kun en enkelt ret p\u00e5 menukortet. Vi havde bestilt mad en m\u00e5ned i forvejen. Man kan nemlig ikke bare komme derhen og bestille mad impulsivt, fordi den mad, man spiser, tager 8 timer at tilberede.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vi fik kylling (Beggars Chicken) og gris som var pakket ind i plastik, aviser og ler og derefter begravet i gl\u00f8dende aske for at ligge der og simre i 8 timer. N\u00e5r det s\u00e5 efter 8 timer graves op igen, s\u00e5 er kyllingen s\u00e5 m\u00f8r, at alt k\u00f8d dratter af benene helt af sig selv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vi var meget sp\u00e6ndt p\u00e5, om de kunne huske vores bestilling, n\u00e5r det nu var en m\u00e5ned siden, men der var ingen grund til bekymring. Maden smagte for resten rigtig godt, men ingen grund til fire kokkehuer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Det meste af Carrie Island er d\u00e6kket af oliepalmer, og \u00f8en er faktisk en stor olieplantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rigtig god tur, selvom Hanne nu syntes, at det var lige lovligt varmt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1. juli 1990 Carrie Island med tr\u00e6sk\u00e6rer og kulsvierlandsby Carrey Island ligger i n\u00e6rheden af Crab Island, og p\u00e5 denne \u00f8 bor der en orang asli mand, som kan lave nogle flotte tr\u00e6figurer, som er ber\u00f8mte ihvertfald ude i Malaysia. Han er godt nok ved at l\u00e6re sin s\u00f8n op, men desv\u00e6rre er tr\u00e6et, som … L\u00e6s videre 1990 Carey Island<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30641,"parent":25592,"menu_order":26,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/istana.synology.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30720"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/istana.synology.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/istana.synology.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/istana.synology.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/istana.synology.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30720"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/istana.synology.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71965,"href":"http:\/\/istana.synology.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30720\/revisions\/71965"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/istana.synology.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/istana.synology.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/istana.synology.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}