Vol. 27 No. 1 (2016): The Journal of Development Communication

Malaysia, due to its diverse cultural and ethnic heritage, boasts a very rich array of cultural dances. Its unique history – from the Orang Asli, Orang Asal and Malays, later with the Chinese, Indians and Arab who came to trade, and afterwards colonialized by the Portuguese, Dutch and English – resulted in so many dances, where after a while, these dances develop their own local and unique Malaysian identity.