Set Malay customary rights based on history
KUCHING: The Sarawak Malay Graduates Association (IGMS) has urged the state government to come up with several initiatives to constitutionalise the Sarawak Malay Native Customary Rights based on cultural heritage and history of customs. Its president Prof Datuk Sanib Said said this is vital to ensure Sarawak can achieve sustainable growth along with fair and […]
Unique legacy of the Brooke regime
KUCHING: A team of social scientists from Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) is currently conducting a two-year research on forts and fort heritage in Sarawak. The team, which comprises 13 anthropologists and two political scientists, is led by an Anthropology and Sociology Programme senior lecturer, Dr Elena Chai. Dr Elena, in an exclusive interview with New […]
Re-living Sarawak’s heritage forts
KUCHING: Forts are distinctive features of Sarawak’s tangible assets, and the memories shared are the ‘Crème de la crème’ on heritage of Sarawak. What is needed now is for heritage forts to be alive again through social history, aside from their restoration and preservation. Dr Elena Chai, a senior lecturer in Anthropology and Sociology, Universiti […]
National Craft Day at Karyaneka
Karyaneka, as the name implies, is very much a marketplace of arts and crafts that offers one the opportunity to purchase not only conventional souvenirs and fashion but also decors and wares for the home. There is a myriad of handicrafts from the traditional to the contemporary. Showcasing crafts from different parts of Malaysia Attracting […]
Forum delegates introduced to state’s cultural heritage
KUCHING: Sarawak hosted a welcoming dinner for the delegates of the Global Youth Forum Co-operative Entrepreneurship 2020 (GYF20) at Riverside Majestic Hotel on Monday night. Enjoying Sarawak hospitality at its best, some 250 young entrepreneurs from 109 countries were introduced to the state’s cultural heritage through a series of traditional dance performances ranging from those […]
Lion dance: Heritage alive
BAU: Ivan Chai Xun Fu was just a nine-year-old kid when he decided to learn to perform the lion dance. Three years ago, he became a lion dance instructor and has so far trained 50 people aged between 10 and 20 in the art, one of the most important traditions observed by the Chinese community […]
Dragon and Lion dance – More than just a cultural symbol
An internationally-recognised sport As a little boy, Nelson Nguang used to rush whenever he heard the sounds of a dragon and lion dance performance. “In the morning of CNY, whenever I hear the drum sounds nearby, I would already feel excited. I would run to it, even my slippers were nowhere to be found. As […]
Selling our culture to the world
CULTURAL HERITAGE TOURISM Cultural tourism is an integral part of tourism in Sarawak. Tourists can experience first-hand our heritage attractions in their originality. Here, in this first of a three-part series, TANIA LAM looks into the state’s commitment towards cultural heritage tourism. KUCHING: When one pictures Sarawak, it is hardly behemoth skyscrapers or bustling […]
Highlighting the importance of cultural heritage
Alena is no stranger to me. I first saw her as a little teenager performing in song and music at a home party in Kuching with other proteges of Sarawak‘s most renowned sape player, Matthew Ngau Jau. In the olden days, only the men played the sape but the taboo was already being broken then. […]
