Deepavali Holiday In Sarawak
To this day sarawak is the last state territory of malaysia where deepavali is not a non working public holiday as per last summer s jadual hari kelepasan am persekutuan 2020 federal public holidays schedule 2020.
Deepavali holiday in sarawak. Sarawak is one of four states that are not governed by monarchs. Deepavali is the most festive holiday of the year for the world s hindus and it is an official public holiday in many countries with significant hindu populations including malaysia. Deepavali is celebrated across malaysia except sarawak either in the months of october or november as a public holiday.
Tan is seen on 4th left shankar on 1st left and kapitan tan seated. The current yang di puertua negeri is abdul talb mahmud. In may 2016 the chief minister s office announced that a new public holiday had been created on july 22 and would be known as sarawak independence day.
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. Since deepavali isn t a holiday there something else has to be a holiday instead. And the indians there still celebrate deepavali.
Sarawak education department has confirmed there would be no classes on oct 25 friday and 28 monday in. The governor is appointed by the king of malaysia. In miri the indian community had their deepavali celebration in a hotel ballroom about two weeks early last saturday evening with a gathering of about 500 people.
Deepavali is a school holiday in sarawak for the fourth consecutive year. Deepavali is a public holiday in all states in malaysia except sarawak because it is has not been declared a public holiday in sarawak the awareness towards the celebration is low. 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.
Deepavali is not a public holiday in sarawak image credit. We can wish our celebrating friends shubh diwali or shubh deepavali.