Rabu, 22 April 2015
It Is The
Responsibility Of Government To Preserve And Protect Malay Culture.
Tari Persembahan, biasa dilakukan saat menyambut tamu dalam berbagai acara. (Dalam Adat Melayu)
Culture
is a tradition of life which is developed and owned by a group of people and
become a legacy from one generation to the next generation, and also in the
same manner as culture, is the part that cannot be separated from human life so
that most of them disposed to think that culture is inherited genetically. When
one communicates to another one with different culture and tries to adapt the
differentiation, it can be argued that the culture can be learned. According to
the Andreas Eppink’s statement that the culture contains from social value,
social norm, knowledge and all social structures, religion and others, in
addition all intellectual and artistic value that become characteristic in the
society. In Indonesian, Malay culture is what we said with custom, manner,
tradition of Malay and stay along the east coast of Sumatera, in Riau Islands.
Then
according to the Malay people, the Malayan is not seen from where they are from
or their genetics. Someone can be said as Malay if he is a moslem, speaks in
Malay language, and has Malay tradition, or a stranger who stay in Malay island
for a long time.
If
the definition of culture and Malay above can be understood, the exertion protecting
culture may become relevant. It is not excessive if we said that the existence of
revitalization to protect and save traditional culture which was always being
claimed by another nation recently is a way to show the nationalism of
Indonesian citizen.
Talking
about Malay culture, in Indonesian we have many varieties of culture, but Malay
culture is the oldest, the biggest one and well known by Indonesian population
or other nations. Because the author was Malay and the author’s parents were
born in Riau that is why the author takes this essay title.
Central
and regional government especially in Riau province must always support the
preservation of Malay culture because Indonesian language was born by Malay
language which is used as the official language of Republic Indonesian. From
the linguistic point of view, Indonesian is one from many varieties of Malay
language. The basis language used is Malay language in Riau, 19th century.
Not
about the language issue only, actually the preservation of culture need to be
done because it also related to economic issue. Culture can be job vacancy to the
people who contributes on it. For example artist or musician of traditional
Malay song, traditional Malay dancer and etc, that is less attention by now by
younger generation. But this preservation of Malay culture will recover this
condition.
Before
our culture exists in name only, through this essay, I want to give an input of
thought that might be a solution to overcome the lack protection of culture,
hope that culture will always be maintained and preserved so that this heritage
can be felt by generations to generation.
In
this culture preservation, we need proper methods to run. Especially in this
current globalization era local culture has been eroded by the outer cultures
that give more appeal to the pleasures that are misleading and duping the public.
Many young generations are reluctant to participate in preserving the culture,
as there are some cases in Riau in some villages have started abandoning Malay traditional
culture such as wedding ceremony, art, dance, martial arts and others.
Government
is expected socialize this culture by cooperating with organizations that
concern about this to solve the existing problem then to achieve vision and
mission 2020 to make Riau province become Malay cultural center in Southeast
Asia.
The
author thought to achieve a success in promoting culture especially Malay
culture, the first lesson is how to interpret culture all around us and never
leave it, and the second one is to increase
* Budak Melayoe
Acara Pernikahan. Pakaian
adat melayu, jenis salah satu bentuk kebaya melayu dan teluk belanga untuk
pakaian pria. (Pernikahan makcik kami Putri Hidayah dengan Ryan Yutri Varios,
17 Juli 2012) di kediaman ayahanda Amiril Mukminin.
Acara Pernikahan. Pakaian adat melayu, jenis salah satu bentuk baju pengantin melayu dan teluk belanga untuk pakaian pria.
Lampu Colok.
tradisi menyambut bulan Ramadhan dan Idul Fitri. (Desa Buatan II, Riau)
