Aka : batutut,atu, sedapa, mawa (Malay), Sedapa. Orang-Pendek means "little man" or "short person."

Folklore : Natives of Sumatra have generally accepted the Orang-Pendek as a genuine animal for centuries, and because they believe it to be a gentle creature that only attacks small animals for food, they regard it with tolerance and respect, rather than fear.

Place: Sumatra (the Taman National Kerinci Seblat and bordering forest), the Sarawak/Kalimantan border in central Borneo, and presumably other islands in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Description: a primate standing about two and a half to five feet tall, with human and ape characteristicsevidently not lacking in strength, speed and agility. The creature is said to have a pinkish-brown skin covered by a short, dark fur with a mane of long hair around the face that flows down the back. The Orang-Pendek is said to walk mostly upright and to possess relatively short arms. It is said to walk upright at incredible speeds, does not brachiate, although it has been seen sitting in or hugging trees. Pint-sized footprints about six inches long, shaped very much like human footprints except for being proportionately rather broad and having a divergent toe, have been presented as evidence of the creature. 

Sightings : The Kubu tribe has been an invaluable source of help in Project Orang Pendek, an broad investigation that takes place in the Taman National Kerinci Seblat (TNKS) though they have not been able to lead team members to the elusive orang pendek. 

In 1999, Debbie Martyr, an explorer and writer, has seen in the Forest of Sumatra what she termed as a "bipedal half-ape, half-gibbon looking orang pendek." She is said to continue her search to collect more evidences. 

Other powerfully built, hairy, man-like creatures seem to have lived near Laotian/Vietnam border until the bombing of the Ho Chi Minh Trail destroyed their habitat. They were called Nguoi-rung by the locals. Sightings seem to be concentrated on the hills of the Chu Mo Ry near the Cambodian border.