Kelantan-based Kumpulan Mak Yong Cahaya Matahari performing at the Pusaka Evenings series in Kuala Lumpur in 2014. Photo: Ahmad Fikry Anwar
A United Nations (UN) special rapporteur urged the Kelantan state government to lift the ban on the Mak Yong dance, wayang kulit and other traditional artistic Malay art forms.
Karima Bennoune, who is UN's special rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, said it will be a shame if these arts forms were left to die, for with its death, Malaysians especially the Kelantanese would lose a part of their culture.
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