Gawai is the Iban word for 'festival' and was officially declared a public holiday in 1965 to unify and honour Dayak ...

Culture, tradition and unity were on proud display during the town’s recent Dayak parade and harvest festival open house.

Gawai is a harvest festival celebrated by Sarawak's Dayak community on June 1-2. Extending Gawai greetings to the Dayak community, Danald said Gawai was a thanksgiving celebration for the ...

Both Sabah’s Kaamatan festival and Sarawak’s Gawai Dayak, the Bornean states’ respective harvest festivals, are the focus of the event. Now in its fourth year, the 2025 edition of BNF will ...

SIBU, May 26 (Bernama) -- The Hari Gawai festival which is celebrated on June 1 every year by the Dayak community in Sarawak is a platform to unify the communities of various races and religions to ...

The works of Australian missionaries laid the foundation of today’s Borneo Evangelical Church, known in Malay as Sidang Injil ...

The Kaamatan Festival and Gawai Day, celebrated from today until Monday (June 2), are proof that harmony, tolerance and consensus can unite the people of Malaysia as one big family regardless of race, ...

For the 50-year-old longhouse chief, the thanksgiving and harvest festival is an ... (Pius Anak Lagon pic) Gawai, celebrated by the indigenous peoples of Sarawak, is a two-day holiday – at ...

But Ngabong’s village, Kampung Iban Kuala Nansang, is not in Sarawak but ... their traditions Gawai is celebrated on June 1. In previous years, Ngabong said the festival would be celebrated ...

Gawai Dayak has grown to become a powerful symbol of unity, hope, and aspiration for the Dayak community – the majority ethnic group in Sarawak. Datuk ...

A total of 17,708 one-way flight tickets from the peninsula to Sabah or Sarawak will be sold at a maximum price of RM300 in conjunction with the Kaamatan Festival and Gawai Day. Transport Minister ...