Rais Yatim And Ng Yen Yen Must Do This Together For Sabah & The Country Sake

2009-06-08 14:55:07 Overseas Chinese Daily News (OCDN)

副揆：有助促進各民族間相互瞭解尊重
建議州政府設文化村

I refer to the news with the title as shown above in the OCDN locally today.

I especially annoyed by the announcement made by Rais Yatim of the following:-

‘聯邦新聞、通訊與文化部長拿督萊雅士耶丁在致詞時重申，希望明年的全國豐收節慶典能在西馬半島舉行，讓半島人民有機會見識到本州結合各種民族文化的習俗’

The Harvest festival is a local celebration and it needs the wholehearted efforts of the indigenous people namely the Kadazan, Dusun, Rungus, Orang Sungei, Lotud, and Murut to display their culture and lifestyle.

The celebration outside Sabah will definitely lost its luster and becoming meaningless and less appealing to the tourists.

The celebration to be staged in KL may not be as lively as it’s staged in KK or Sabah. The display quality by the locals will definitely be different and would be more meaningful than if it’s done by the West Malaysian. There’s simply no replacement of the local indigenous and it’s unfair to the tourists from around the world too.

The government should instead subsidizing the tourists from the peninsula and the world to come to Sabah to participate in the once a year culture event. This is not only promoting the local indigenous culture to the world but also help building the tourism in the country, especially Sabah.

All we need is a concerted effort of all to put the package together.