Ding Choo Ming Pantun Collection

Pantun is Malay traditional poetry, handed down orally before they are documented in writing. It is very popular all over the Malay World (comprising Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, southern Philippines and Thailand) and is given different names in different ethnic groups. Composed in simple, beautiful and self-contained verse, pantun is not only easy to remember, thus illiterate farmers, laborers, mothers and others are able to recite many of the popular pantun as entertainment, to grace auspicious occasions and lighten burden of work, but also easy to be carried around, from place to place, from one island to the other in the Malay Archipelago.

The database is searchable using either a single word or a phrase in natural language.