SarawakIDPerkhemahan Ilmu Siri 2 (2026)
- TBC
Start Date : 21 Jul 2016
End Date : 21 Jul 2016
Time : 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Venue : Auditorium, Pustaka Negeri Sarawak & Pustaka Negeri Sarawak, Miri
Sarawakiana Talk is back this month!
Join us in this interesting Sarawakiana Talk
on “Sabak Kenang” – Journey
to the Land of the Dead by Dr. Robert Menua Saleh, Director, Oral
History Section, Tun Jugah Foundation on 21st July 2016, 2:30 pm at
Auditorium, Pustaka Negeri Sarawak.
The other
category is the Invocatory Chant (Sabak
Lumbung) created to invite ancestors of the deceased and other residents of
the Land of the Dead to the Land of the Living for the exchange of gifts and
bidding final farewell between the two parties.
This talk,
entitled Sabak Kenang – Journey to
the Land of the Dead, is about the first category of Iban ritual dirges. It
highlights the significance of Iban’s dead rituals and the extra-ordinary
expert knowledge of Tukang Sabak
reciting her chant using poetic language of the Sabak which are very moving and emotionally powerful of all forms
of Iban ritual poetry.
Sabak Kenang which shall be chanted or
performed by Tukang Sabak from early
evening till dawn the next morning before the burial, shall guide the soul of a
newly deceased person on its journey to the Land of the Dead or Sebayan.
Through this
talk, the audience is expected to gain better understanding as to why many
Ibans are still giving great emphasis on the importance of carrying out ritual
ceremony before they bury the dead body of their family member or relative,
especially in the context of their communal living.
Admission to the talk is FREE! For further
information contact Rozana Octovia at 082-440488 or email rozanoru@sarawak.gov.my.