THE EDITOR – The Kagama contingent of the North Sumatra Regional Board, Mayasari (38), won second place in the cultural cavalcade in the Nitilaku 2024 event held to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Gadjah Mada University (UGM) and the 15th Lustrum on Sunday (15/12/2024).
Mayasari, who is an alumnus of UGM from the Faculty of Law, Master of Notary Department, said that she did not expect to win this cultural carnival event because all participants from all over Indonesia wore beautiful traditional clothes.
“I am very happy and I did not expect to win. I saw other participants wore beautiful traditional clothes,” she said.
Mayasari herself said she favoured the other traditional attire worn by participants from Kagama contingent of the North Sumatra Regional Board Sumut, which reflected the legendary figure from North Sumatra, Datuk Maringgi, and the Karo traditional attire.
The 20 participants of the cultural cavalcade from North Sumatra are reportedly to wear traditional clothing from 8 ethnicities in the province. Among them are the traditional clothes of the Karo, Nias tribes, Coastal tribes, Toba tribes, Mandailing tribes, Simalungun tribes, PakPak tribes and Malay tribes.
WHAT DOES MAYASARI WEAR?
The Kagama contingent of the North Sumatra Regional Board with Rector of Gadjah Mada University (UGM) Professor Ova Emilia (Photo: Public Relations of Kagama North Sumatra/THE EDITOR)
To The Editor, Mayasari said that she used traditional clothes from the coastal tribes which is dominated by red colour and a crown from a collector in Medan.
The traditional clothes that are worn at the wedding of Coastal tribe are quite heavy, even making Mayasari’s head scuffed after participating in the Nitilaku UGM 2024 cultural carnival.
Even so, she admitted that the excitement of the event did not make her feel the slightest pain, especially when she was declared the second winner of the Nitilaku 2024 UGM Fashion Competition.
“It’s okay, it didn’t hurt,” she said.
Mayasari said, the Coastal tribes traditional clothes she wore were indeed very beautiful and different from other traditional clothes in North Sumatra.
She felt very happy to be able to enliven the Nitilaku UM 2024 event with 20 other participants from North Sumatra to show off the rich culture of one of the largest islands in Indonesia.
WHO ARE THE WINNERS OF THE NITILAKU 2024 CULTURAL CAVALCADE COMPETITION?
For the Fashion Competition category, the first winner was I Made Christian from UGM Graduate School, the second winner was Mayasari from Kagama North Sumatera, and the third winner was Iswari Yuliwati from Kanogama.
Meanwhile, for the Cultural Cavalcade, the 1st place was won by Faculty of Cultural Sciences of UGM, 2nd place was won by Graduate School, and 3rd place was won by UGM Residence.
