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Dayaks told to take a moment to reflect

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Datuk Peter Minos and his family at the MPKS annual dinner cum Raya-Gawai Ramah Tamah at Raia Hotel.

KUCHING: Gawai Dayak is not just an occasion for merriment but a day of telling and reminding themselves of their identity in a fast-growing world of globalisation, competition and full of challenges.

In stating this, Bung Bratak Heritage Association (BBHA) chairman Datuk Peter Minos said Gawai is part of keeping alive and intact the Dayak heritage and history, as well as its identity and dignity, even survival, in the ever-changing and ever-challenging Malaysia and Sarawak.

“History has amply shown that in the modern world and civilisation we are now in, a small indigenous people can easily get marginally lost and even totally forgotten.

“(That is) if it does not keep intact and perpetuate its customs and traditions, language and dialects, heritage and cultures, and their ways of life that can blend with modernity.

“And if not participating fully in modern education and economic development and progress, this is the reality.

“It is thus vital that the Dayaks be fully aware of the reality of the present world. If not, it will be a goner, even (face) extinction,” he said in a statement on Sunday (May 29).

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