page_title: Orang Laut
section_title: Popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Orang Laut / Popular culture
caption_attribution_description: Village of Senggarang, near Tanjung Pinang, Riau, Indonesia.
context_page_description: The Orang Laut are several seafaring ethnic groups and tribes living around Singapore, peninsular Malaysia and the Indonesian Riau Islands. The Orang Laut are commonly identified as the Orang Seletar from the Straits of Johor, but the term may also refer to any Malay origin people living on coastal islands, including those of Andaman Sea islands of India and those in Thailand and Burma, commonly known as Moken.
context_section_description: In the story The Disturber of Traffic by Rudyard Kipling, a character called Fenwick misrenders the Orang Laut as "Orange-Lord" and the narrator character corrects him that they are the "Orang-Laut".
caption: Villages of Orang Laut in Riau Islands.
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