KUALA LUMPUR, April 4 — The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture (Motac) will be leading an initiative to nominate ‘Kebaya: Knowledge, Skills, Traditions and Practices’...
KUALA LUMPUR, April 4 — The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture will be leading an initiative to nominate ‘Kebaya: Knowledge, Skills, Traditions and Practices’ under the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity for 2023.represents and celebrates a shared historical legacy and is still worn in communities across Southeast Asia, Motac said in a statement.
Each country taking part in the nomination has been included in a series of meetings held since early last year, it said. Malaysia had hosted the first physical workshop held in Port Dickson in November last year while the second workshop was held in Jakarta in February this year during which the nomination form was updated in line with a new format Unesco had introduced, it added.
An online workshop was held by Singapore last month to finalise the contents of the nomination form, it said.“There are communities that actively make and wear thefrom generation to generation,” it added.remains protected through the delivery of knowledge, promotional efforts and documentation or research efforts with the support of the other countries involved in the nomination, it said.
Unesco’s decision on the nomination will be finalised in the 19th Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage next year, it said.
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