Comments on: Culture & Heritage of Malaysia http://travelmalaysiaguide.com/culture-heritage-of-malaysia/ Source for the web's best travel guide. Unbiased updated travel information about tourism and vacation in Malaysia. Tue, 15 May 2012 10:00:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: bolo2 http://travelmalaysiaguide.com/culture-heritage-of-malaysia/comment-page-1/#comment-6542 bolo2 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:04:14 +0000 http://travelmalaysiaguide.com/culture-heritage-of-malaysia/#comment-6542 Not all Malaysian cultures are similar with Indonesian. ONLY in most of Sumatra Island's ethnics are simillar with Malaysian. Your website MUST NOT said "traditional Malaysian music is very similar to Indonesian music." GAMELAN-GONG, SUMPIT and WAYANG KULIT is FAR from Melayu ethnic (that Malaysian claim as "serumpun" with Indonesian). *GAMELAN-GONG and WAYANG KULIT are belong to Javanese's (red: The Javanese are an ethnic group native to the Indonesian island of Java) *SUMPIT is from Dayak ethnic (an ethnic group native to the Indonesian island of Kalimantan). It is true that Malaysia also has teritory in Kalimantan island, but the has that teritory after their independence day, so Malaysian don't have the right to claim SUMPIT as their cultural heritage. Not all Malaysian cultures are similar with Indonesian. ONLY in most of Sumatra Island’s ethnics are simillar with Malaysian. Your website MUST NOT said “traditional Malaysian music is very similar to Indonesian music.”
GAMELAN-GONG, SUMPIT and WAYANG KULIT is FAR from Melayu ethnic (that Malaysian claim as “serumpun” with Indonesian).

*GAMELAN-GONG and WAYANG KULIT are belong to Javanese’s (red: The Javanese are an ethnic group native to the Indonesian island of Java)
*SUMPIT is from Dayak ethnic (an ethnic group native to the Indonesian island of Kalimantan). It is true that Malaysia also has teritory in Kalimantan island, but the has that teritory after their independence day, so Malaysian don’t have the right to claim SUMPIT as their cultural heritage.

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