Move to boost Peranakan community in Terengganu

Tun Ahmad Faisal (third from left) and Low (second from right) with T-shirts featuring Mek and Awang batik swatches at the press conference to announce this year’s Peranakan festival.

KUALA TERENGGANU: The Terengganu Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (TCCCI) is intensifying efforts to have the state’s Peranakan community recognised on a wider scale in this year’s Peranakan festival.

Known as Mek and Awang, the community has assimilated with locals in Terengganu, similar to how the Straits Chinese in Penang and Melaka adopted and assimilated with the ways of the locals in those states.