“We are like a football, kicked around.”

The forty-plus woman, who only wanted to be known as Kak Ju, has been living in a tent since floodwaters which rose in Kelantan a year ago, subsided in January.

“Sometimes we are pushed to the right, and sometimes, we’re pushed to the left,” she said.

Kak Ju and her family are in a bind, because they were already squatting on government land before the 2014 east coast floods which displaced up to 200,000 people.