Rocky, quoting the Star newspaper said:
“According to The Star, someone people in the DAP’s central executive committee want the party’s assemblymen in Johor NOT to wear the Songkok at the opening of the state’s legislative assembly on June 19. The Sultan of Johor is expected to be there.
If the news is true, it’s strange for the DAP to want to do that. It’s mischievous, even, especially given the Johor Sultan’s passion for the songkok .
Sure, the songkok is a Malay headgear. It is also a Malaysian headgear. No?”
The Star’s Chun Wai also thinks the Songkok is a Malay headgear.
Curiously, if you search for “songkok” in Wikipedia you are redirected to the “peci” entry as below:
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So, is the songkok.peci Indonesian or Malaysian, or if you want to cut it finer, is it Indonesian muslim or Malay?
i think it has become national and official cap for both indonesia and malaysia. it’s not only moslems who wear peci. you can see many officials in indonesia are wearing peci or songkok even though they are not moslems.
It would be better for Indonesian and Malaysian not to argue about this (cap), useless. Why dont we (indonesian and malaysian) cooperating each other, e.g in culture.
heh heh .
unspun, unspun.
you really betul2 batu api lah, you. heh heh
@Kerinchi Guy: Only pointing to an inconvenient truth about what is being held in malaysia as a icon of Malayness – hence the big deal among the DAP-wallahs about wearing or not wearing that headgear. heheheh
People in Sulawesi call it songkok (which I think is Melayu word), people in Java call it peci.
I think it’s more Melayu heritage, so it’s shared between Indonesia and Malaysia.
Oh no! Here we go again!!!
Already redirected to its proper term, “songkok”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songkok