Mak Yong

Mak Yong

Mak Yong is a performance in Malay culture. It is performed mainly in the form of dances, songs and drama. It also can be consider as musical drama. Nowadays, this culture is getting less popular compare to olden days. During olden days, people take this performance as a source of income to support their family needs. By performing, they earn money and carrier. It has been a source of support in olden Malay society.

Mak Yong is an art where it portrays loads of Malay traditions, moral teachings as well as family basics. This can be seen through one of the Mak Yong performance that emphasizes on parents and children relationships. This traditional performance is highly embedded with morality to raise awareness among society.

However, as the country keeps modernizing, Mak Yong is facing the problem of being overtake. It is important to keep Mak Yong alive as it benefits and enhance new generation knowledge. If this tradition is without the support form society and younger generations, it will slowly die off and will soon be never exist before.