Assalamu‘alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatu

Welcome to MelayuOnline.com; The Globally Malay World.

MelayuOnline.com is a cyber portal or database of the Malay world and all about Malay in the entire world launched on Muharram 1, 1428 (January 20^th, 2007) by Balai Kajian dan Pengembangan Budaya Melayu-BKPBM (The Center for Research and Development of Malay Culture). This cyber portal is the actualization of one of BKPBM‘s programmes in revealing, collecting, preserving and immortalizing whether the dead past heritage of Malay culture or old and present Malay culture that still runs within the society. Therefore, Malay cultural heritage, which is a merely scattered mosaic throughout the world, could be tightened to become huge complete documentation of great civilization. In another word, BKPBM aims to preserve both Malay culture and Malay tradition not through the traditional ways, but through the unavoidable modern technology of information.

MelayuOnline.com is currently launched in three language versions: Bahasa Indonesia, English, and French. Only with your supports, we have planned to publish MelayuOnline.com in Arabic, Dutch, Spanish, and other languages used by people who uphold and support Malay culture in the world. Therefore, the presence of MelayuOnline.com is expected to be a medium of communication amongst the Malay people in the world so that they are able to reconstruct and develop the Malay culture to be inline with the modern global changes. Furthermore, the glorious values encompassed within the Malay culture should be taken as the source of reference in establishing the basis for thinking, acting, and behaving toward the modern world in the global dynamic.     

MelayuOnline.com is a database as well as the documentation, inventory and information center of the Malay world and all about Malay, which are collected from a number of sources of Malay literature, and from hundreds of printed and online media in Indonesia and overseas. The data is then classified and arranged in some menus based on the scientifically-proven theoretical framework of MelayuOnline.com. Such a categorization is hoped to be able to help people who intend to observe and understand the Malay culture whether in brief or in depth for academic purposes. MelayuOnline.com consists of 25 main menus that explore comprehensively all relating to the Malay world; those menus are Home, News, Opinion, Articles, Malay History, Malay Culture, Malay Literatures, Malay Figures, Malay Researchers, Award, Directory, Malay Encyclopaedia, Malay Dictionary, Book Reviews, Library, Agenda, Link, Forum, Collection, Store, Site Map, Donation, About Us, Guest Comment, and Contact Us. Each menu is the detailed into several sub menus so that the presence of MelayuOnline.com can hopefully accomplish its mission as the database and the information center of Malay world and all about Malay in the entire world.

MelayuOnline.com is totally dedicated to the glory of Malay civilization, and organized by several Malay people who continuously attempt to unite and develop Malay cultural heritage. As a cyber portal, the complete contents such as data, articles, information, references, and pictures that are available on the MelayuOnline.com would be neither perfect nor accurate except with your real contribution. All you have donated will be extremely valuable for the development of Malay culture and the cyber portal‘s sustainability. It is important to be noted that whether visual design, design of structural contents, or data included herein, on this portal, have been copyrighted and registered its patent rights. Nevertheless, it is permittable for all people to copy, quote, and publish all the contents, yet surely by citing MelayuOnline.com as the quoted source of reference.   

Wassalamu‘alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatu

The Head of the Center for Research and Development of Malay Culture

Mahyudin Al Mudra, SH.MM

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