The holy month of ramadhan is gradually made to become a cultural month and this is believed to be part of the government's transformation programme. The
fasting month of Ramadan will add splendour to the Kuala Lumpur Festival
(KL Festival) 2012, which begins July 1, as it will incorporate
cultural programmes appropriate for the occasion.
Information,
Communications and Culture Ministry secretary-general Datuk Seri
Kamaruddin Siaraf said among others, there would be a halal food fest, a
cooking competition, a Ramadan bazaar.
"Local
and foreign visitors will be entertained to a nasyid festival and a
dikir barat show in the evening after the breaking of fast," he said in
an interview on Bernama TV's Hello Malaysia programme.
The event will be enliven with the national flag waving programme as the country prepares for the independence day, he added.
He
said the ministry hoped to attract over one million visitors to the KL
Festival to sample the cultures of various races and the patriotic
fervour in the run-up to the independence day on Aug 31.
The
festival with the theme 'Di Sini Semaraknya Seni! (here arts
flourishes) will be the seventh organised by the ministry. Over 930,000
visitors made a beeline to the KL Festival last year.
As always, lots of public funds are use to organise shiok sendiri events with all the themes to go with it.
ReplyDeleteI would be very interested to know how the Information, Communications and Culture Ministry tabulate the number of people that attended the event last year which was over 930,000. If there is no tabulation system to account for, then they must have plucked the numbers from the air or like their Minister that gave the figure of 22,000 that attended the Bersih Rally!