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Gawai Dayak (previously as known as Dayak Day or Sarawak Day) is an annual festival and a public holiday celebrated by the Dayak people in Sarawak, Malaysia on 1 and 2 June. Sarawak Day is now celebrated on July 22 every year. [1] Gawai Dayak was conceived of by the radio producers Tan Kingsley and Owen Liang and then taken up by the Dayak ...
Since conversion to Christianity, some Iban people celebrate their ancestors' pagan festivals using Christian ways and the majority still observe Gawai Dayak (the Dayak Festival), which is a generic celebration in nature unless a gawai proper is held and thereby preserves their ancestors' culture and tradition.
There is an emerging category of life-building gawai called dream festivals such as Gawai Lesong (Rice Mortar Festival) and Gawai Tangga (Notched Ladder Festival) and some newly innovated variants of the gawai proper as a result of dream by a person or several individuals. These are popular among the Iban in the upper Rajang region.
[77] [78] [79] Sarawak is the only state in Malaysia to declare the Gawai Dayak celebration a public holiday. [80] It is also the only state in Malaysia that does not gazette the Deepavali celebration as a public holiday. [81] Religious groups are free to hold processions in major towns and cities during festivals. [82]
May: Gawai Dayak Naik Dango is celebrated by the Dayak in the opening of the rice harvest to thank the Gods; June 1: Ngabayotn is celebrated by the Dayak people to celebrate the closing form of rice harvest and beginning of the cultivation season; August: Wayang Gantung; August 17: The Celebration of Indonesian Independence day;
The original Bidayuhs are mainly pagans or animists, however 50% already converted to Christianity. They have big festivals like Gawai Dayak, which is a celebration to please the padi spirit for a good harvest. [8] Most Bidayuh villages have either a Roman Catholic or Anglican church, or a mosque. The Biatah people, who live in the Kuching area ...
Gawai Dayak, West Kalimantan; Indonesian Film Festival, Jakarta; ... Festival marking the last day of Chinese New Year celebration. 15th day after vernal equinox
Gawai Dayak: Sarawak, Malaysia and West Kalimtan, Indonesia; Sipaha Lima: Celebrated by Toba Batak people of North Sumatra, Indonesia. The Christianised version of Sipaha Lima is called Pesta Gotilon, celebrated in Batak Christian Protestant Church and its split-offs.