Transport is a main concern for people living in rural and remote communities around the world, where the absence of affordable and reliable transport often prevents access to education, health services and employment opportunities. In Sarawak, a state of Malaysia on the island of Borneo, many rural villages experience acute transport poverty. For their basic transport needs, people here rely on informal transport systems based on local social and cultural networks, which provide essential mobility.

We apply Polanyi's concept of social embeddedness to explore mobility in this region, people's efforts to develop regional models of entrepreneurship but also the relative marginalisation of remote communities in terms of development and infrastructure provision and the resulting friction between local people, the companies involved in regional resource extraction activities and local government. Based on data collected between 2015 and 2017, we frame informal transport in this region as a form of Indigenous entrepreneurship that can help local communities achieve wider social and economic inclusion. Our research points to a more social type of entrepreneurship and economic practice, in which social relationships and community responsibilities play an important role. Our qualitative approach, including ethnographic methods such as semi-structured interviews and participant observation, underpins the groundedness of our data in the every-day experiences of the people who took part in the research.

交通是生活在世界各地农村和偏远社区的人们的主要关注点，在这些社区，缺乏负担得起且可靠的交通通常会阻碍他们获得教育、卫生服务和就业机会。在婆罗洲岛上的马来西亚沙捞越州，许多乡村都面临着严重的交通贫困。为了满足基本的交通需求，这里的人们依赖于基于当地社会和文化网络的非正式交通系统，这些系统提供了必要的流动性。

我们应用 Polanyi 的社会嵌入概念来探索该地区的流动性、人们为发展区域创业模式所做的努力以及偏远社区在发展和基础设施提供方面的相对边缘化以及当地人与参与区域的公司之间由此产生的摩擦资源开采活动和地方政府。根据 2015 年至 2017 年收集的数据，我们将该地区的非正式交通视为一种土著创业形式，可以帮助当地社区实现更广泛的社会和经济包容。我们的研究指出了一种更具社会性的创业和经济实践，其中社会关系和社区责任发挥着重要作用。我们的定性方法，