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SMK MEDINI (2017 CyberFair Project ID 8257)
Malaysia,
GELANG PATAH,
JOHOR BAHRU
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 8. Local Music and Art Forms
We estimate 8 student(s) from 13 to 17 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Johor Bahru, capital of the Malaysian state of Johor, sits at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. With a causeway across the Straits of Johor connecting it to Singapore, it’s a gateway for exploration of that island nation. The Malaysian Census in 2010 reported the population of Johor Bahru as 497,067. This makes it the country's third largest city. The city's population today is a mixture of three main races- Malays, Chinese and Indians- along with other bumiputras. Malays comprise the majority of the population at 240,323, followed by Chinese totalling 172,609, Indians totaling 33,319 and others totalling 2,957.Non-Malaysian citizens form a population of 42,585. Most of the Malays are chiefly descended from Riau Malay and Javanese people including significant minorities of ethnic Buginese and ethnic Banjarese among the majority ethnic Malay population. The Chinese mainly are from the majority Teochew, Hoklo, Hainanese and Hakka dialect groups,[13][57] while the Indian community mainly consist of Tamils together with significant populations of Malayalees, Telugus and Sikh Punjabis.
Project Description: The project describe more about ponggal festival celebratede by Indians(Tamil) in Johor region.Indians(Tamil) are the third minority of race in Malaysia.Pongal is a four-day-long harvest festival celebrated by Tamil ethncis in the world. For as long as people have been planting and gathering food, there has been some form of harvest festival. Pongal is one of the most important popular Hindu festivals of the year. This four-day festival of thanksgiving to nature takes its name from the Tamil word meaning 'to boil' and is held in the month of Thai (January-February) during the season when rice and other cereals, sugar-cane, and turmeric (an essential ingredient in Tamil cooking) are harvested.The purpose of this research is to spread cultural and festival belief of Pongal among the people around the world. This also awakens the cultural belief among us. We chosse the title “Harmony of Pongal” as our project. Our project is to explain art,belief,culture and traditional celebration of ponggal in Johor, Malaysia.