KAMPAR: After receiving brickbats and criticism, the organiser of a Songkran Festival here has changed the name of the programme to the Sahom Water Festival.
Sahom Valley Resort managing director Shariff Ali Jabad Ali said the decision to rebrand the programme scheduled for August 26 and 27 was made to avoid controversy and to ward off the stigma of some parties towards the holding of the event.
"So in order to ease the community's perception and respect all parties, the programme is rebranded as the Water Festival because Songkran is a sensitive issue even though it was just a perception. We apologise for the confusion over the matter," he said at a press conference on Wednesday . "The organisers admitted a mistake for using the term 'Songkran Festival' in our announcement last week, but our intention was not to follow the same as the Songkran Festival, that was our own mistake as there was no intention to observe religious events or customs like in neighbouring countries.
He said that the purpose of organising the programme also played a role in improving the economy of the local population and attracting more tourists to the district
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