Kalimaran helps promote Murut culture: DCM
Published on: Wednesday, March 27, 2019
TENOM: The Government-supported Kalimaran Festival now celebrated every March 31, serves as a platform to promote and uplift the culture, arts and traditional customary of the Murut ethnic community.
Deputy Chief Minister cum Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister, Datuk Christina Liew, said it is the Government’s obligation to recognise a festival containing cultural, art and traditional customary elements that also helps promote the State throughout the world.
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Kalimaran can be a catalyst for promoting Sabah as a tourism destination that has attractive and unique culture and arts, she said when officiating the festival at the Sabah Murut Cultural Centre in Pulong, here, Tuesday.
On the cultural centre’s upkeeping needs, she said the Government has given attention on the matter.
Infrastructure Development Minister and Melalap Assemblyman Datuk Peter Anthony, who is the festival’s main organising committee chairperson and advisor, Kemabong Assemblyman Jamawi Jaafar, Liawan Assemblyman Rasinin Koutis, Sabah Cultural Board Chairman Ismail Bongsu and District Officer Sungkim Rumangun, who is also the joint organising committee chairperson, among others, were also present.
Anthony, in his speech, said the Kalimaran Festival has been recognised as an annual celebration to be held on every March 31 and is supported by the community.
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“People in Sabah are living in peace and harmony. Festival such as the Kalimaran is sign of unity and harmony exist among the multiracial people in the State.
“Beside that it can also promote the interior at the international level. Tenom, Keningau and Pensiangan have their respective uniqueness,” he said.
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