APPENDIX I

Site:MALACCA HISTORIC CITY

Vission / :Coordinated Master Plan of Cultural Heritage & Tourism

Objective

Issue:1.Top down decision making

  1. Limited role / contribution by NGO and uneven responses & involvement from local communities
  1. Ambitious goals for tourism but lack of master plan and action plan
  1. Lack of presention & intepretation of cultural heritage / site

Action

  1. Consultation process between Cultural Heritage and Tourism Agencies to establish their respective goal(s).
  1. Identify common ground and differencess.

Output

  1. Coordinated & agreed strategies for cultural resouce development
  1. Develop a unify approach toward cultural heritage development & interpretation & promotion

Timeframe for each activity phase

  1. Consultation Process – 3 months
  1. Indentifiying common vision – 3 months

Indicator

  1. A Coordinated Development Plan
  1. Attitude toward a unify approch & relative support of the cultural heritage interpretation of the locals & visitors.
  1. Community & visitor satisfaction

APPENDIX II

Site:MALACCA HISTORIC CITY

Vission / :Sustaining Multi-Cultural Diversity Toward a Positive Collective

ObjectiveIdentity

Issue:An assessment of cultural diversity and cohesion.

Action

  1. Consultation process to identify cultural priorities in each community groups.

2.Collective marketing of a composite identity.

  1. Self identification of city projects (for each community groups)

Output

  1. RISK --- Strength & Weaknesess of each community / cultural groups.

2.Respond & Commitment from the community & tourist industry to a composite identity.

  1. Degree of confliction and commitment by the community toward their cultural identity.

Timeframe for each activity phase

1.Consultation Process – 6 months

  1. Marketing – 6 months
  1. Projects Implementation – 6 months (Phase 1)

6 months (Phase 2)

Indicator

Indicator on the Success of the Projects :
1.Satisfaction of tourist
2.Involvement / willingness of the communities to participate or to be part of the composite identity

3.Enhances the weaknesses.

APPENDIX IV

CULTURAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT

-Identification of Project Sectors

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Statements on heritage of Malacca and study area / 2
Opinion Poll on Project Types (Setting Priorities) / 3
Heritage Focus
1 street
1 project
1 composite identity
1 composite community
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Community / Clan
Association & NGOs / 5
Religious Association / 6
Chamber of Commerce
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Architects & Planners for Conservation / 8
Art Historians / 9
Schools and Universities
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Exhibition on the project / tourism Master Plan / 11
Street and Public Spaces for community activities / 12
Community Workshops & Local Skill Training

Site :Malacca Historic City

Project Area:Harmony Street

Project Vision:Cultural Indentity Development for Composite

Indentity

‘HARMONY STREET’

In the heart of Melaka’s old town, is Jalan Harmoni or Harmony Street, renowed for its many religious houses of workship, proof, Malakans say, of the town’s harmonious and tolerant character. Tinsmiths, blackmiths, cobblers, coffin-makers, paper-artists, and basket-weavers still ply their trades there. However the trades and skills are slowly dying and dispearing. KAMPUNG KLING MOSSQUE. Corinthian columns, a Victorian chandelier, Portuguese tiles, a pagoda-style minaret, and a three-tiered Javanese-style roof feature in this elegant mosque built in 1748. Located on the corner of Jalan Tukang Emas and Jalan Lekiu, the mosque is named after Kampung Kling, the original residential area of Muslim Indian traders (Kling) at the time of the Melaka sultanate.

SRI POYYATHA VINAYAGAR MOORTHI TEMPLE . On the same street as the mosque is Malaysia’s oldest Hindu temple, built in 1781. Sacred to both the Chettiar (traditional Hindu moneylenders) and the Chitty (Peranakan Indians who claim to have been in Melaka five hundred years), the temple is dedicated to the deity Vinayagar, represented by an elephant’s head made of black stone imported from India. At the annual Masi Magam festival, a sacred statue of Lord Subramaniam is conveyed on a silver chariot to the Nagarathar Temple at Cheng, about 6 miles from Melaka town. The Chitty community was shifted to Chitty vilagge located 2 km. Away during British Period.

CHENG HOON TENG TEMPLE

For over three hundred years, Malaysia’s oldest Chinese temple on Jalan Tokong has been the principal place of worship for Melaka’s Chinese. The temple was founded by Li Kup, who fled China when the Manchus toppled the Ming dynasty. The temple is now under going restoration work.

METHODIST CHURCH

The church was built in 1903 within Kampung Serani or Eurasian Village. It was constructed on the site of the earlier Portuguese Chapel. All the Portuguese decendents here have moved to Portuguese Settlement located 2 km, away.

Site: Malacca Historic City

Project Area:‘Harmony Street’

Objective of Project:Cultural Identity Development for

Composite Identity

Introduction to Project Area

‘Harmony Street’ located in the heart of Malacca Historic Inner City, the study area for the UNESCO Heritage Managemend and Tourism Project Survey.

The Street comprises of one Kilometer stretch of short and narrow streets of Blacksmiths Street, Goldsmiths Street and Temple Streets. This area was the living quatters of the traditional traders belong to the Sultanate, Portuguese and Dutch Period. The traders were the straits Chinese or Baba and Nyonya (the offspring of Chinese and Malay) the Straits Indian or Chitty (the offspring of Indian and Malay), Kling (India – Arab community), Serani or Eurasian and the Malay – Javanese Community.

However the area is now being occupied by the Chinese (part of the present China Town) since the British Period the present (year 1824) and the other group of communities were shifted 2 km. Away from the city (a suburb during those period). The Chitty is now resided at the Chitty Village and became farmers / rice planters, the Eurasian to the Portuguese Settlement and became fishermen, the Malays to Kampong Morten and the Straits Chinese remained as part of the ‘new’ Chinese Community.

Each of these traditional communities being ‘represented’ by one dominant cultural monument within this area ---- the religious houses of worships. This proof, Melakans say, of the town’s harmonious and tolerant character. This name the spirit of this harmonious and tolerant will be exploit for this project’s subject : Cultural Indentity Development for Composite Identity.

The Scope of the Project

The project will comprises of the followings :

  1. Study oo The revival of dying and disappering crafts and local skills

-Blacksmiths

-Tinsmiths

-Cobblers

-Coffin – makers

-Paper – artists and

-Basket – weavers

  1. Community workshops and Local Skills Training for the above cultural activities.
  1. Bringing back the above cultural activities to the street (it would be imposibble to bring back the original traditional communities to the area)
  1. Marketing and promotion the area as the traditional bazaar or market place.
  1. Connecting this area to the present ‘new’ settlements of the traditional communities.