MelayuOnline.com: Heart of Serumpun Malay from all over the Globe

Jakarta- A number of websites concerned with effort to preserve cultural heritage have significantly increased in the cyberspace currently. MelayuOnline.com is one of them.

As a culture-focused website, MelayuOnline.com is unique. The web’s image background is just like a green carpet with a motif of typically Malay areas. There is a beautifully intricate Arabic calligraphy on the header making the web looks elegant.

MelayuOnline.com alone is an online database of all the Malay cultural studies, in which its scope of coverage is all countries where Malay culture has/had ever existed, either in the past or in the present.

MelayuOnline.com was first launched on January 20^th, 2007 by Balai Kajian dan Pengembangan Budaya Melayu-BKPBM (Center for Research and Development of Malay Culture).

MelayuOnline.com has published in three language versions; Bahasa Indonesia, English, and French. And if possible, there would be more additional language versions at the website in the further progress.

MelayuOnline.com offers the visitors with various menus within, such as Malay History, Malay Culture, Malay Literature, and even Malay Dictionary. Those main menus then are divided into the more detail sub-menus that can be proven academically.

With such a comprehensive coverage, it is hopefully MelayuOnline.com could accomplish its mission as the center for data and information on the Malay world from all over the globe.

One more interesting menus of the website is the “store” menu. The menu displays carious Malay cultural properties that are available for sell.

So far MelayuOnline.com is managed by those who care about cultural matters including Malay. MelayuOnline.com’s office is at Gambiran 85A, Umbulharjo, Yogyakarta.

Curious to know the website? Here is the link: http://melayuonline.com

Irfan Nugroho (ter/132/07-09)

Source: Detikinet.com 

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