Melayu Day @Yala

"Melayu Day @Yala" festival was co-hosted by Consuls General of Malaysia and Indonesia in Songkhla Mohd Afandi bin Abu Bakar and Triyoko Jatmiko, the Yala Provincial Culture Office and Yala Municipality.

Mayor Pongsak Yingchoncharoen said the festival, previously entitled Malayu Day of Yala, began in 2014 to highlight Melayu culture of Yala. Immediately after its debut , the event captured the interest of various sectors which offered to be the co-organizers for the following years. The consulates of Malaysia and Indonesia in Songkhla have been playing a key role in the activity.

The event, now in its fourth year, features a seminar on Melayu culture, a kite-flying competition, an elephant parade, a Thai-Malayu speech contest, Anasyid performances, and cultural processions and cooking demonstrations from Malaysia and Indonesia to highlight the cultural harmony of Yala.

Governor Doldech Pattanarat said the festival was also expected to improve tourism and the image of the southernmost province as well as strengthen solidarity among the local people. Melayu Day@Yala will take place from 10th to 12th February at White Elephant Park, Yala Municipality. 

Yala Southern THAILAND 

The Malay peninsula has been settled since prehistoric times. Archeological remains were found in several caves, some used for dwellings, others as burial sites. The oldest remains were found in Lang Rongrien Cave, dating 38,000 to 27,000 years before present, and in the contemporary Moh Khiew cave.

In the first millennium Chinese chronicles mention several coastal cities or city-states. No exact geographical locations were recorded, so the identification of these cities with later settlements is difficult. The most important of these states were Langkasuka, usually considered a precursor of the Pattani Kingdom; Tambralinga, probably the precursor of the Nakhon Si Thammarat Kingdom, or P'an-p'an in Phunphin district, Surat Thani, probably located at the Bandon Bay Tapi River. The cities were highly influenced by Indian culture, and have adopted Brahman or Buddhist religion. When Srivijaya in Chaiya extended its sphere of influence, those cities became tributary states of Srivijaya. The city Chaiya in Surat Thani Province contains several ruins from Srivijaya times, and was probably a regional capital of the kingdom. Some Thai historians even claim that it was the capital of the kingdom itself for some time, but this is disputed.

After Srivijaya lost its influence, Nakhon Si Thammarat became the dominant kingdom of the area. During the rule of King Ramkhamhaeng the Great of Sukhothai, Thai influence first reached Nakhon Si Thammarat. According to the Ramkhamhaeng inscription, Nakhon Si THammarat was a tributary state of Sukhothai. During most of later periods, Nakhon became a tributary of Ayutthaya.

The deep south belonged to the Malay sultanates of Pattani and Kedah, while the northernmost part of the peninsula was under the control of Bangkok.

During the thesaphiban reforms at the end of the 19th century, both Nakhon Si Thammarat and Pattani were incorporated into the central state. The area was subdivided into 5 monthon, which were installed to control the city states (mueang). Minor mueang were merged into larger ones, thus forming the present 14 provinces. With the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909 the boundary to Malaysia was fixed. Kedah came under British control, while Pattani stayed with Siam.

โต๊ะแชร์ อายุของท่าน ร่วมร้อยปี จากประเทศมาเลเซียมาโชว์ตำนานสิลัต 

ท่านศิลปินแห่งชาติ ความภูมิใจของคนยะลา มะ ยะหา แม้ท่านป่วยท่านยังคงมาแสดงให้เราได้ชม ดิเกฮูลู สุดยอดมากครับดิเกฮูลูของเรา — at สวนสาธารณะ สนามโรงพิธีช้างเผือก.

ฟาน ฟัรฮัน ศิลปิน

Silat is a collective word for a class of indigenous martial arts from a geo-cultural area of Southeast Asia encompassing most of the Nusantara, the Indonesian Archipelago, the Malay Archipelago and the entirety of the Malay Peninsula. Originally developed in what are now Indonesia, peninsular Malaysia, south Thailand, and Singapore, it is also traditionally practised in Brunei, central Vietnam and the southern Philippines. There are hundreds of different styles (aliran) and schools (perguruan) but they tend to focus either on strikes, joint manipulation, throws, weaponry, or some combination thereof. Silat is one of the sports included in the Southeast Asian Games and other region-wide competitions. Training halls are overseen by separate national organisations in each of the main countries the art is practised. These are Ikatan Pencak Silat Indonesia (IPSI) from Indonesia, Persekutuan Silat Kebangsaan Malaysia (PESAKA) from Malaysia, Persekutuan Silat Brunei Darussalam (PERSIB) from Brunei and Persekutuan Silat Singapura (PERSISI) from Singapore. Practitioners are called pesilat.

While the word silat is used by Malay-speakers throughout Southeast Asia, the art is officially called pencak silat in Indonesia. Primarily a Javanese term, other names include silek (the Minang pronunciation of silat), penca (used in West Java), main-po or maen po (in the lower speech of Sundanese), and gayong or gayung (used in parts of Malaysia and Sumatra). The clear distinction between Indonesian and Peninsular silat is a relatively recent one based mainly on post-independence patriotic sentiments. The term silat Melayu ("Malay silat") was originally used in reference to Riau but is today commonly used for referring to systems created on the Southeast Asian mainland. Generally speaking, silat Melayu is often associated with fixed hand positions, low stances, and slow dance-like movements. While this generalisation does not necessarily reflect the reality of silat techniques, it has had a notable influence on the stereotypical way the art is portrayed in Malaysia, Singapore, and to a lesser extent, Brunei.