Malaysia's Orang Asli get creative with TikTok, posters, WhatsApp audio to promote Covid …

A screengrab of the OA Lindungi Komuniti Facebook page. KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 4 ― The Orang Asli community in Malaysia have taken to creating TikTok videos to spread awareness of Covid-19 precautionary measures and vaccination among the country’s indigenous community. This is their latest effort since March 2020 to help protect the community, by creating educational materials on the Covid-19 pandemic in their own languages. One-minute impact multiplied to 26.7k Under the #OALAWANCovid campaign hosted on the Facebook page named OA Lindungi Komuniti, a contest to produce one-minute TikTok video clips on Covid-19 standard operating procedures (SOP) and the importance of vaccination was launched. These short video clips ― which had to be original video produced by the Orang Asli just for the contest ― were posted on the Facebook page, with the content to be judged on various criteria such as their originality, creativity and popularity. In just 17 days during the contest period from August 15 to August 31, a total of 30 participants from the Orang Asli community submitted their video clips, which were collectively viewed an impressive 26,700 thousand times, the contest organisers told Malay Mail. In fact, the video clip with the most views had…
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