FOCUS It was 15 years ago when Dau Labung, a Penan woman, met her husband from Long Na’ah, a village next to hers. The interracial marriage went smoothly.

Dau was young back then, her smoky black eyes sparkling in the dark. They are soft and muted, sultry and dark.

She was waiting for a car in the middle of a road in a sunny afternoon. A Kayan young man, who would later become Dau’s husband, drove in a truck heading towards her village. The young man gave Dau a lift.