The Bajau Laut are a Southeast Asian people that have lived for centuries in the seas around Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. The Bajau make their living spearfishing and selling to Hong Kong ...

The Bajau tribe, resides in the coastal areas of Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, leading a unique lifestyle that revolves around the sea. Research has revealed that the Bajau’s spleens are, ...

Famed for their freediving skills, only a few hundred Bajau still live in the traditional way. Caught between laws hostile to their unique way of life, they are being forced to resettle as outcasts on ...

Imagine a life spent almost entirely at sea—where the horizon is your front porch, and diving deep into the ocean is part of everyday survival. Meet the Bajau, a nomadic maritime tribe often referred ...

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Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. After a six-hour drive on the island of Sulawesi, my colleague Adi ...

Will Millard spent a month living in Indonesia while filming a documentary for BBC2, where spear fishing, hunting for sperm whales and sleeping in a stilt village is still part of daily life I have ...

The Bajau Laut are some of the world's last sea nomads but destructive fishing in the Coral Triangle is threatening their way of life. Photographer James Morgan captures this centuries-old Malay ...

Wakatobi, Indonesia – They have lived on the sea for centuries, but overfishing now threatens the unique culture of the nomadic ocean dwellers known as the Bajau Laut. Found on Indonesia’s southern ...

MEET the uncontacted Bajau people who live in stilt houses and houseboats on the edge of civilisation. In June, nomadic photographer Claudio Sieber visited the community which lives near the city of ...

The Bajau tribe lives in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Philippines. They have larger spleens for deep diving. Bajau people dive to 20-30 meters and hold breath for minutes. Children learn swimming early.