PRESERVE GANNA TRIBES CULTURAL

By : DAP MEDIA

SABAH DAP Parliamentary Liaison Chief for Keningau and Tenom, Dr Benjamin Yapp, together with his Deputy Liaison Chief, Mr Phillip Voon organizing a Community program related to Ganna Cultural musical performance at Kampung Sandapak, Bingkor, Keningau for the benefits of the local youths and community.

The primary aims were to encourage local youths towards participation in fine arts relating to the Ganna Native Arts and Culture and offering them an opportunity to improve their knowledge, skills and talents in the Arts and culture of the Ganna Native of Sabah.

This way, we could also to complement with the Government towards the allevation of social problems facing the rural youths. Dr Benjamin who is also a Diplomat member of the World Affairs Council (WAC) is committed in his endeavors to offer voluntary community services to assist the Ganna Cultural Association Sabah in order to preserve the rich aboriginal cultural heritage of the Ganna tribes that have been in the danger of extinction if not been given any attention and assistance by the Government.

Sabah DAP urged the Tourism Board of Malaysia to contribute towards the development of the Ganna cultural heritage in Sabah. He stated that the Ganna cultural heritage is one of the richest native heritages in Borneo.

He would seek the assistance of the World Affairs Council towards obtaining world heritage recognition from UNESCO at the appropriate time. With the colorful traditional culture and the performing arts in relation to the ‘Tagungak’, a traditional bamboo and ‘gongs’ orchestra as well as the wealth of native artifacts, Ganna native folklores and the ‘Bahasa Ganna’( Ganna language) that needed to be preserved before the culture was totally illuminated, it is hoped that NGOs and institutions would come to their aid in order to preserve the rich aboriginal cultural heritage of Borneo.