{
  "id": 11338949,
  "title": "Features : UUM Academic Sheds Light On Bukit Malut Community, Challanges Long-Held Perceptions",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/02/features-uum-academic-sheds-light-on-bukit-malut-community-challanges",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-02T00:50:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Bernama",
    "slug": "bernama",
    "url": "http://www.bernama.com/en/news.php?id=2614440"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Facing the strategic Straits of Malacca is the densely populated Bukit Malut, part of it comprising wooden houses built on stilts above the water. The scene is reminiscent of the traditional water villages found in Sabah. For more than four decades, since its establishment, the settlement has been labelled a ‘Rohingya area’ and associated with undocumented migrants. A glance at social media…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}