COMMENT | Here I am back on Pulau Omadal in Sabah, where more than half the population there consists of the undocumented Bajau Laut community.

For a little bit of context, my organisation Fat Bidin is running a project supported by Yayasan Hasanah and the Finance Ministry where we help to teach the local youth storytelling and filmmaking skills which will culminate into a feature documentary.

This weekend, with the help from the alternative school Iskul Sama DiLaut Omadal, we have started the workshop series and the first, conducted by United Nations Development Programme consultant Thomas Koruth Samuel, has nothing to do with storytelling.

The first workshop’s objective is to...