INDONESIAN IN CLAIMS BY MALAYSIA

DIPONEGORO, (GM) .-
DIPONEGORO, (GM) .- State of neighbor Malaysia has threatened to claim the national language as a language of Indonesia Melayu (Bahasa Malaysia). "The Malaysian government will claim the Indonesian language as Malays. Because language is Bahasa Melayu Malaysia, "said Malaysia's Deputy Ambassador to Indonesia, Datuk Harun Abdul Azis told reporters on the sidelines helaran" Kemilau Nusantara 2007 "at Gedung Sate Bandung, Sunday (25/11).

The threat, he said, will be implemented if the community and the Indonesian government is still disputed claims against the art reog Malaysia Ponorogo and the song "Rasa Sayange".

According to him, the song "Rasa Sayange" made in 1907 and reog Ponorogo much older because it appears when the Indonesian people not born. Existing at that time, both Indonesia and Malaysia and one grove called Archipelago.

"Society and the Malaysian government considers Indonesia to Malaysia is part of the archipelago. The emergence of this problem, because it narrows the meaning of the Indonesian archipelago, "he added.

While the countries that enter into the archipelago, he said, besides Indonesia and Malaysia, there are Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, and southern Thailand. So if there is art of traditional Indonesian songs in Malaysia is growing, it is something natural, because the art was taken by the tribes in Indonesia to Malaysia since hundreds of years ago.

"The tribes in Indonesia came with the traditional arts and culture and developed in Malaysia. We can not separate them with cultural arts, "he said.

Abdul Azis was mentioned, the government of Indonesia and Malaysia has expressed concern that currently busy discussed, such as art reog Ponorogo and the song "Rasa Sayange". In the talks, he said, the Malaysian government to put forward the unity of the archipelago. "But the details, I do not know the outcome of talks between the Minister of Culture and Tourism of Indonesia and Malaysia's Minister of Culture," he explained.

He also mentioned the case of traditional arts and Ponorogo reog song "Rasa Sayange" has become more crowded because the Indonesian press. Meanwhile, Malaysia's own press, he added, was not exaggerating the problem. "The reason these two arts are already in Malaysia since hundreds of years ago, which brought people of Indonesia and then settled in Malaysia," he explained.


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