Tari Tor-tor, The Indonesian Traditional Dance will be Claimed By Malaysia

Both Government should be blamed, I think. Indonesia Government has so many pending things to be settled in order to protect Indonesian Ancient heritage which has to be registered with the International Offices of Heritage. Malaysia Government also has to be blamed for their naive actions to claim Indonesian dances as their heritage. At least we should be aware that many of Indonesian ancient heritage must be claimed and registered with the International bodies so no other countries may claim for our ancient heritage.

Absolutely, our government is the one who have to be blamed for this. They should protect, preserve, and develop our nation's culture at all cost. Instead, they seem ignoring that. Stop blaming Malaysia, they're just picking up what have been "thrown" away.

It is unfortunate, this should happen again. I really hope the government can take action on this incident. I also really hope that this issue can be resolved properly, without any hostility. Because, we are neighboring countries.

hello..iam back..i think i did not see you all here more than 1 weeks.. my connection is so poor and it push me only open my twitter or my triond..just one site when i had to online and of course many good topic i missed it.. one of them of course about claim malaysia for our tor-tor whats happen with malaysia again? why they try to make conflict with us? they think we are afraid with them? why they always try to steal our culture? or they are ashamed with their original culture?

i don't know. this always happen. sometimes we never think about our culture. but when another country claim our culture, we always angry.

The source of many cultural or traditional items are often disputed between the two countries. I suppose it is because of the proximity and cultural similarities of Indonesia and Malaysia. They share the same roots of language, and perhaps there are also traditional dances or songs which originated from the same sources.