Significant Part of Culture
Malay traditional games are a significant part of the cultural heritage of Singapore’s Malay community. They reflect the ingenuity and resourcefulness of our forefathers in creating their own games by using inexpensive materials for their pastime and recreation.
Community and Team Spirit
Malay traditional games also foster community and team spirit in children of different ethnicities and social classes especially during the kampong days of Singapore.
However, as Singapore becomes more urbanized and modernized, we are losing many of such socio-cultural heritage due to economic, social and environmental changes.
These changes include:
- the disappearance of closely-knit kampongs and villages
- lack of suitable playing areas in the Housing and Development Board (HDB) estates where majority of Singaporeans nowadays live in
- the emergence of new technologies and gadgets that children are nowadays more attracted to as compared to Malay Traditional Games
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