{"id":125183,"date":"2018-10-06T22:49:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T14:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=125183"},"modified":"2018-10-08T22:36:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T14:36:48","slug":"indonesian-cultural-night-features-richness-and-diversity-of-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=125183","title":{"rendered":"\u0153Indonesian Cultural Night\u009d features richness and diversity of cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Fachri Mirza<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>GOMBAK, 6 October 2018: The cultural night held on Friday (5 October) marked the closing of the one-week Indonesian Day celebrations held in IIUM campus featuring Indonesia&#8217;s richness of its cultural diversity.<\/p>\n<p>Held at the Main Auditorium, the event attracted the presence of international as well as Malaysian students. It was a great success, according to many students who attended the show.<\/p>\n<p>The event, featuring cultural performance, fashion show, Pencak Silat, angklung, Papua Dance and Saman Dance, successfully brought excitement to the audiences.<\/p>\n<p>Organised by the Indonesian Students Association in collaboration with all Indonesian students studying in IIUM, the event was regarded by many as a great success.<\/p>\n<p>The event started with the grand opening accompanied by &#8216;angklung&#8217; music, followed by a demonstration of fashion show and a display of cultural costumes of Indonesia. This years event showed various costumes of Indonesia including from Aceh, West Java and East Java.<\/p>\n<p>The cultural performance continued with the stunning &#8216;Piring&#8217; dance and &#8216;Saman&#8217; dance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Piring&#8217; dance is a Minangkabau traditional dance involving dish attraction. The dancers swung their plates with fast movement and without the plates being released from the hand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Saman&#8217; dance, one of the most popular dances in Indonesia, comes from Aceh province. The dance is characterised by its fast-paced rhythm and common harmony between the dancers.<\/p>\n<p>The event was sealed by the two astonishing performances of &#8216;Pencak Silat&#8217; and &#8216;Papua Dance&#8217;. Pencak Silat was packed with Silat dance, breaking stones, and fighting dance.<\/p>\n<p>\u0153It was wonderful and amazing. I havent seen performance like this before,\u009d Sofia, who was one of the audiences from Afghanistan, said. ***<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fachri Mirza GOMBAK, 6 October 2018: The cultural night held on Friday (5 October) marked the closing of the one-week Indonesian Day celebrations held&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":125257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,3],"tags":[710,91,705],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-10-08-at-19.39.59.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125183"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125258,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125183\/revisions\/125258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/125257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}