 The date and reasons for the resettlement of the Kanaq people from Bintan to the Malay Peninsula remain unexplained.Different sources give contradictory dates, and the discrepancy between which is more than 100 years.One of the undocumented documents held in the archives of the Department of Orang Asli Affairs in Johor Bahru states that the first group of the Kanaq people numbering about 100 people was delivered by the Dutch to the Kota Tinggi District in 1758 to work on a black pepper plantation in the Sungai Papan village.