After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the annual flash mob Keretapi Sarong is making a comeback along side Malaysia Day celebrations.
The occasion goals to encourage the usage of public transportation and rejoice the sarong as a conventional trend and tradition.
It is organised by the neighborhood group Locco (Local Companion). Locco public relations and occasion director Shamsul Bahrin Zainuzzaman describes Keretapi Sarong as a unifying occasion the place people from all walks of life collect to rejoice Malaysia Day.
Put on a sarong along side Keretapi Sarong 2022.
It is modelled after the No Pants Subway motion in New York that mobilised 1,200 New Yorkers to put on something however pants on the practice in 2009.
Shamsul expects over 3,000 people on the occasion, which takes place tomorrow.
“This is the sixth year Locco is organising this special event in conjunction with Malaysia Day. The objective of Keretapi Sarong is to celebrate our culture, music and traditions,” he stated throughout a cellphone interview from Kuala Lumpur.
Keretapi Sarong has added three new stations – KL Sentral, Putrajaya and KLIA (by way of Express Rail Link practice community) to the 5 current stations within the Klang Valley – LRT Gombak, LRT Ampang, LRT Subang Jaya, MRT Kajang and MRT Bandar Utama.
Annual flash mob Keretapi Sarong goals to instill the spirit of unity amongst Malaysians.
KL Sentral Station will welcome sarongites who’re becoming a member of by way of the Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) commuter trains and ERL companies. This 12 months’s theme is Retro Day. Malaysians are invited to placed on their favorite sarong, batik or kain pelikat. Participants are inspired to collect at their nearest practice stations at 8.30am.
“We will depart from the stations at 9am. Groups move from starting stations to the final location before walking towards our ‘secret’ location. Locco will post live updates on our travel locations on our Instagram page, @locco.my,” he shared.
Activities, cultural video games and sing-along classes shall be led by teams of volunteers and strategic companions stationed on the stations.
In addition, there shall be dance performances by Anomalist Productions and a brief theatre present by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia’s Institut Alam dan Tamadun Melayu. Best-dressed prizes are up for grabs, and the classes embody best-dressed male, feminine, senior citizen, youngsters and cosplayer in a sarong.
The retro look is the theme for this 12 months’s Keretapi Sarong.
Shamsul added that the flash mob occasion would additionally happen in Ipoh tomorrow.
“Ipoh Social Club will join and organise an Ipoh Keretapi Sarong at KTMB’s Ipoh Station. Locco hopes that this will remain a permanent community event. Hopefully, more states can join this movement in future.”
The occasion will finish with the Keretapi Sarong custom, the favored joget lambak. This conventional dance is normally carried out by a big crowd collectively throughout social features.
In conjunction with the occasion, Express Rail Link is giving up to 50% reductions for return tickets from Putrajaya to KL Sentral. In addition, RapidKL will provide a promotion for its day by day move for these utilizing the LRT and MRT traces.
For extra particulars, go to locco.com.my
