Rengat and to state the reasons why Malay people do the way they do in maintaining Nandung.
Practically, the findings of this study are expected to be able to maintain malay language through Nandung for children in Malay community in Rengat and
to make young generation aware about Nandung.
CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONSIK AND SUGGESTIONS
5.1 Conclusions
This thesis is about The Maintenance Nandung among the speakers of Malay language in Rengat. It was aimed to find out the strategies in maintaining
Nandung in Rengat. Based of data analysis, the conclusions are presented in this following:
1. Nandung is one of traditional culture that still remains admist the Malay
people and being practised by the Malay people. 2.
Malay society is well known by its oral tradition Nandung conveying message by orally. Nandung contains such as religious, historical values,
custom and practical values, information that has the values of local wisdom in daily file of the community, as well as contain genealogical information of
kinship of a family in the community. 3.
The dominant meaning coding in Nandung is religious one. 4.
usually, the Malay people perform Nandung when there is a Akikahan ceremony.
5. The strategies of maintaining Nandung that conduct by Malay people in
Rengat; debriefing and revitalizing oral tradition of Malay and personalization.
5.2 Suggestions
It is suggested that those, who concern with malay culture and malay cultural maintenance should explore some aspect of the language by doing some
efforts internally and externally. 1.
For futher research is needed to explore as many as possible the heritage of Nandung, such as the exploration of Nandung in malay daily life. Because there is
a very little document of the malay culture literature and reference especially Nandung. It is very difficult to find malay literature in an available resources. The
multi sources documents of Nandung will enrich the malay heritage studies. 2.
For The Rengat local goverment should have the same important role to maintain the heritage of Rengat oral tradition, especially Nandung. Such as
including Nandung Oral Tradition as the local curriculum and adding extra time to teach Nandung in Muatan Locat subject at schools.
3. For the Malay people, to be aware of this phenomenon and keep using
Nandung in daily life, and intoduce Nandung to the young generation both in formal education and non formal education.
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