For a long time, the indigenous population of Peninsular Malaysia was not perceived as a separate category of the population, just as the Orang Asli themselves did not have such a perception. However, towards the end of the British colonial rule on the Malay Peninsula, there were attempts to classify these disparate groups in some way. Residents of the southern regions often called "Jakun", and "Sakai" in the northern regions. Later, all indigenous groups became known as Sakai or Aborigines, which is equivalent to the Malay Sakai. The term "aborigines", as official name, appeared in the English version of the Constitution of British Malaya and the laws of the country.