{"id":185623,"date":"2025-11-11T05:28:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T05:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=185623"},"modified":"2025-11-11T05:28:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T05:28:51","slug":"koed-organises-first-traditional-fun-run-in-conjunction-with-edufest-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=185623","title":{"rendered":"KOED Organises First Traditional Fun Run in Conjunction with EduFest 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By, Hani Rashid<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOMBAK, 1 November 2025: First-ever KOED (Kulliyyah of Education) traditional Fun Run was organised by the Bachelor of Education Students Association (BEDSA)\u00a0on 1 November 2025, Saturday, in conjunction with EduFest 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reviving the cultural roots that brings people together is one of  the goals for the event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 3km-run, started and ended at KOED parking lot, was participated by almost 100 hundred students and alumni.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event started at 8:30 a.m. , with welcoming speech from Deputy Dean of Students Development Centre of Education, Dr. Arifin Mamat and Nurul Najwa Binti Sulaiman, the Programme manager. Dr. Arifin mentioned how exercise should be part of every day routine, and students need to balance their intellectual and physical abilities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following a brief warm-up session, participants embarked on the fun run around the IIUM campus, taking part in the traditional games stationed along the route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b629ade9-01d0-4ff4-bafa-95bb1544e969-4-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-185667\" style=\"width:929px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b629ade9-01d0-4ff4-bafa-95bb1544e969-4-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b629ade9-01d0-4ff4-bafa-95bb1544e969-4-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b629ade9-01d0-4ff4-bafa-95bb1544e969-4-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b629ade9-01d0-4ff4-bafa-95bb1544e969-4.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Students playing \u2018<em>lari<\/em> <em>dalam guni\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The tagline of the run was, \u201cRunning together preserving tradition.\u201d The students wore&nbsp;<em>kain batik&nbsp;<\/em>and<em>&nbsp;pelikat&nbsp;<\/em>while running a full lap around IIUM. There were also Malay traditional games at checkpoints, such as&nbsp;\u2018<em>Tujuh Selipar\u2019, \u2018Teng-teng\u2019, \u2018lari dalam guni<\/em>\u2019, and<em>&nbsp;\u2018coconut bowling<\/em>\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b056769a-e340-4a0f-9f09-0dcd8dd89afe-3-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-185668\" style=\"width:851px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b056769a-e340-4a0f-9f09-0dcd8dd89afe-3-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b056769a-e340-4a0f-9f09-0dcd8dd89afe-3-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b056769a-e340-4a0f-9f09-0dcd8dd89afe-3-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b056769a-e340-4a0f-9f09-0dcd8dd89afe-3.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Dr. Arifin Mamat playing \u2018coconut bowling\u2019<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>It is hoped that the event would to enhance awareness and appreciation of Malaysian cultural heritage within the IIUM community. ***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By, Hani Rashid GOMBAK, 1 November 2025: First-ever KOED (Kulliyyah of Education) traditional Fun Run was organised by the Bachelor of Education Students Association (BEDSA)\u00a0on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":185624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,6,114,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[265],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_3764.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185623"}],"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\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185623"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185674,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185623\/revisions\/185674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/185624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}