BACKGROUND OF MALAY

BY TEE REN RONG

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Background of Malay
• These early aboriginal group
are now call as (Orang Asli)
• Totally have eighteen groups,
officially classified is
(Negrito, Senoi, and Proto-
Malay).
• The first reached this
peninsula is around 2000 B.C.

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Background of Malay (con’t)
• In this peninsula, their number are small, just only making up in
total around 120,000 or 0.5 percent of Malaysia’s total population.
• From the earliest time, the different situations in different place
such as coming from Indian, middle east, china, western are
influences the most reshape their culture.
• The Malay now are the most of the largest group of Malay
peninsula and neighbors territories which is island of Sumatra.

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MALAY LANGUAGE
BY TEE REN RONG

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Malay language in Malaysia
• In Malaysia is call (Bahasa Melayu).

• Austronesia ethic group language spoken in Malaysia, Indonesia,

Singapore, Brunei and Thailand.

• The total number of speaker Standard Malay is 18 million.

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Malay Language in Malaysia(con’t)
• Now Malay is using the Latin script (Rumi).
• Arabic script called Arab Malay or Jawi.
• Rumi is official in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.
• Jawi is using full in the school, specially the religious school.
• Rumi and Jawi co-official in Brunei.

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Malay Language in Malaysia(con’t)

Latin Script (Rumi) Jawi

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Malay language in Malaysia(con’t)
• Malay was written using the Pallava, Kawi and Rencong scripts.

Pallava Kawi Rencong

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 THANK YOU
By TEE Ren Rong

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MALAY MARRIAGE
RITUAL
BY CHUA PEI LENG

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Malay Marriage Ritual
• A fusion of local and Islamic
customs

• Local traditional and Islamic

customs were mixed to suit
royal rituals

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 The
Wedding
Process
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 Adat Merisik
• Is known as seeking ceremony
• When a man is settle down with a woman, his family
performs checks a background on her

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 Not this SPYING

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 This is the seeking ceremony

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 Adat Bertunang
(engagement custom)
• Plan to marry
• Families of the couple
discuss about the wedding
plan

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Akad Nikah (marriage contract)
• Akat Nikah or a marriage
contract is the first formal
ceremony of a Malay wedding

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Henna Staining Ceremony
• If the bersanding is to take place the next day, the couple’s hands are dyed with
henna during the bernai besar (great henna-ing) ceremony

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 Bersanding
• Families
members,
relatives, and the
guest sparking
them with yellow
rice and scented
water for the
blessing

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Royalty for a Day
Thank you to all of the
blessing, and now we
are the husband and the
wife now !!!

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MALAY TRADITIONAL
FOOD
By CHUA PEI LENG

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 What do
you think
what is
Malay
traditional
food ?
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Malay traditional food
What is Malay traditional food and where is it?

• Malay traditional food is the cooking traditional of Malay

of Malaysia and mostly from Southern-east Asia

• Malay traditional food is typical to Malay people

respective villages
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 What is the most
common food in
Malaysia ?????
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 Nasi Lemak
• Most popular food and most common food in
Malaysia
• National dished in Malaysia
• Nasi lemak is rice cooked in rich coconut milk with
a sauce call “Samba”

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 Main Characteristic in Malay
traditional food
• Coconut milk
• Chilli pepper
• Shrimp paste
• Onions
• Garlics
• Lemongrass
• galangal
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 THANK YOU
By Chua Pei Leng

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MALAY TRADITIONAL
COSTUME
By TEE GUANG CHI

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Malay men costume
• Baju Melayu is the traditional Malay outfit for men. They must
wear Baju Melayu during Hari Raya because it is their traditional
outfit to celebrate the occasions.
• It is classified into two types which is Baju Teluk Belanga and
Baju Cekak Musang.
• They will worn with a sarong or woven silk in feasts and Friday
prayers.

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Baju Teluk Belanga

• Without collar
• Only one button
• Three pockets – two at
the bottom, one at the
upper left chest.

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Baju Cekak Musang
• With collar
• Five buttons
• Three pockets – two
at the bottom and one
at the upper left
chest.

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Malay women costume
• There’s also have two types of “baju” for Malay women which is
baju kurung and baju kebaya.
• Normally,Malay women wear baju kurung because cannot wear
too tight to show that figure, it is accordance to Islam’s hijab.

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 Baju Kurung

• Skirt goes down to the ground, and the

tunic goes up to the neck with a little
slit in the front by the neck.
• A knee-length blouse worn over a long
skirt.

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 Baju Kebaya
• The top is also long but also fitting.
• The skirt/sarong is long, but tailored to
be fitting.
• The tunic is more short.

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MALAY TRADITIONAL GAMES
CONGKAK
BY TEE GUANG CHI

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 Malay Traditional games
(Congkak)
 Congkak is a mancala game, which is meaning is
gemstone chess.
 This game actually origin in Malaysia, Singapore,
Indonesia and Thailand.
• Before that we believed the originate word Malay
“Congak” which is now we all pronouns as Congkak.
• Therefore, Congak also had a special meaning which is
“mental calculation”.

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Rules and Regulation
• First, both players will start to pick up all the mancala
at the same in any house.
• Each mancala will put into the next house with
clockwise.
• Other side player will put mancala into their own
warehouse but they will not put any mancala into
match competitive warehouse.
• If the player who purposely drop mancala to opponent
house, the opponent house has the right to take away.

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FESTIVAL AND
CELEBRATION
By TEE Guang Chi

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 During Fasting Festival (Puasa)
• This festival normally celebrate before Hari Raya AidilFitri.

• While fasting is on dawn until sunset.

Before the sun come out Around 7pm

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During fasting festival
(puasa) (Continued)
• The thing that cannot do when
during fasting festival
- Food, drinking liquids, smoking and
engaging sexual relation.
• Their food and drink are served daily
before dawn and after sunset,
referred to as Suhoor and Iftar
respectively.

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43 CELEBRATE HARI RAYA ADIL FITRI.

• After one month of fasting festival, will continued celebrate

Hari Raya Aidil Fitri.
• Adil Fitri is the first day if Islamic month of shawwal and marks
the end of month Ramadhan.
• Many muslim will attend communal prayers, listen to khutba
(sermon) and give zakat al-Fitri (charity in the form of food).
Celebrate Hari Raya Adil Fitri. (Con’t)

• Selamat Hari Raya, maaf zahir dan batin

-which is translated is “I seek forgiveness from you”.

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 OPEN
HOUSE

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Open House

 Generally, it is customary for some Muslim families to

host ‘rumah terbuka’ or ‘open house’ to welcome
neighbours and member to celebrate together.
 Where they can enjoy festive food such as curry chicken,
mutton rendang chicken satay, ketupat(rice cake),
lemang(glutinouns rice).
 And the most famous drink is rose syrup and bandung.

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KING
Lemang (glutinouns rice) Ketupat(rice cake)

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KING
Ros Syrup Bandung

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KING
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Open House (Continued)

 Muslims usually travels back to their hometown three day or a

week before Hari Raya Adilifitri to avoid heavy traffics.

 The last reminder for you all when drive back to hometown,
please take care you all self and drive safety.

BY DURIAN
KING
 THANK YOU
THE END

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