Dikir Barat Workshop

              There is an event that we just can describe as one of the best ones of our life in Universiti Malaysia Pahang(UMP) for this year. The Dikir Barat Workshop. In the event, we could experience the culture of Dikir Barat with a lot of sensation. Dikir Barat is one of a famous cultural art from Kelantan. Usually, the workshop most participated by student from Kelantan. The workshop organized by UMP Dikir Barat Club, Warisan Sri Pujangga.

            The workshop was an opening event and participated by student from UMP Gambang and UMP Pekan. Around 80 student joined this event. The workshop was held at UMP Pekan. So, the students from Gambang had moved to Pekan. On that day, we gathered at kk3 bus stop at 7.15 a.m. We went to UMP Pekan by bus and arrived there at 8.45 a.m. Then, we had our breakfast at the cafe that served by the organiser.

           After that, we gathered and was briefed by the club chairman, FikriGani at the open hall. He gave some introduction about Dikir Barat. He said,Dikir Barat is typically performed by groups of ten to fifteen members. In a typical Dikir Barat performance, the group will perform two segments. The leader of Dikir Barat group is called TokJuara. The creative leader of a Dikir Barat was the TukangKarut. The members of the Dikir Barat was divided by two groups, one was called “awok-awok” and the other one was percussionies.

        Then, the trainers demonstrated performances of Dikir Barat to us. After that, we had been divided into two groups which are percussionies and “awok-awok”. The trainers of “awok-awok” teached us a number of hands-on elemnets and simple claps. For the percussionies, they had been teached how to play the instruments and the musics of Dikir Barat. We enjoyed our trainings with happily althougt we tired. For the last session, the trainers asked participants from UMP Gmambang and UMP Pekanto do the performances and the winners will be selected. At last, the UMP Gambang students won the battle. After that, we had closing ceremony and went home to UMP Gambang.

        As conclusion, we enjoyed our workshop and all of the participants learned about the art of Dikir Barat. The objective of the Dikir Barat workshop was to learn the cultural art of Dikir Barat and to keep the cultural art from extinct. So, we had reached our objective and hope this workshop will be held soon. We hope our experienced will make us more appreciated to the cultural art.

 by: Dzulfadzly, Aiman and Fakhrul