Yala festival celebrates Melayu culture

By The Nation

 

 

An Asean cultural festival kicked off on Friday to promote Melayu culture and tradition.

 

The “Melayu Day @Yala” festival was co-hosted by Consuls General of Malaysia and Indonesia in Songkhla, the Embassy of Brunei, the Yala Provincial Culture Office and Yala Municipality.

 

Yala Mayor Pongsak Yingchoncharoen said the festival began in 2014 to highlight Melayu culture of Yala. After its debut, the event captured the interest of various sectors, leading to offers to be co-organisers in the following years. 

 

The event, now in its fifth year, features Melayu cultural parades from Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei, a seminar on Melayu language, an elephant parade, a kite-flying competition, a Thai-Malayu speech contest, local cooking demonstrations, and cultural performances from Malaysia and Indonesia to highlight the cultural harmony.

Melayu Day@Yala will take place until Sunday at White Elephant Park, Yala Municipality.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30338513

 

 

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Not a word of promotion of “Melayu Day by TAT.

What happened to TAT's promotion of shades of diversity in Thailand?

Maybe diversity must be Buddhist-based.

So it remains that Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei must promote the diversity of Muslim culture in Thailand.

5 hours ago, Srikcir said:

Not a word of promotion of “Melayu Day by TAT.

What happened to TAT's promotion of shades of diversity in Thailand?

Maybe diversity must be Buddhist-based.

So it remains that Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei must promote the diversity of Muslim culture in Thailand.

 

Melayu is the Malay (and Indonesia, Brunei, etc) culture/language which predates (but includes) Islamic influence in SE Asia.

 

However your points are still valid as the Thai State finds it just as threatening.