Deepavali Holiday For Sarawak
Sarawak only 01 02 june 2020 is within term break holidays so these 2 days is school holidays for the whole malaysia.
Deepavali holiday for sarawak. Seven years ago the then chief minister of malaysia s state of sarawak pehin sri abdul taib mahmud had similarly announced that sarawak state would not follow the federal territory of labuan which had recently added deepavali as a non working public holiday but then subsequently went ahead and added another annual non working public holiday in sarawak on july 22. This year s his first year celebrating deepavali in sarawak. Sarawak education department has confirmed there would be no classes on oct 25 friday and 28 monday in.
Deepavali day main holiday on 14 nov 2020 celebrated by indians. Deepavali is a school holiday in sarawak for the fourth consecutive year. It is high time for the sarawak state government to consider making deepavali diwali a public holiday for the indian community in recognition of their vast contributions to the state s development.
We spoke to a few of our indian friends from sarawak which were few and far between. This is why in sarawak there are holidays for hari gawai good friday and sarawak day holidays that the rest of us don t get.