Muhammad Aiman Danial Abu Bakar, Kee.Y.Sabariah Kee Mohd Yussof
{"title":"PENDEKATAN STRATEGI PEMULIHAN (TURNAROUND STRATEGY) YANG DIGUNAKAN OLEH PIHAK MAJIKAN SEMASA ORGANISASI BERHADAPAN SITUASI PANDEMIK COVID-19 DI KOTA KINABALU, SABAH.","authors":"Muhammad Aiman Danial Abu Bakar, Kee.Y.Sabariah Kee Mohd Yussof","doi":"10.17576/ebangi.2023.2002.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17576/ebangi.2023.2002.19","url":null,"abstract":"Pandemik COVID-19 memberi kesan terhadap kelangsungan organisasi di mana sesetengah organisasi terpaksa menghentikan operasi perniagaan dan mengalami kerugian sehingga terpaksa melakukan pengurangan tenaga kerja. Prestasi organisasi dan keuntungan syarikat juga turut terjejas akibat pandemik COVID-19. Antara sektor yang terjejas adalah sektor pelancongan seperti industri perhotelan di Malaysia. Industri tersebut terpaksa menutup atau menghentikan operasi organisasi ketika Perintah Kawalan Pergerakan (PKP). Berdasarkan senario semasa, kertas kerja ini mengetengahkan Strategi Pemulihan semasa Perintah Kawalan Pergerakan (PKP). Kajian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan menemu-bual dua (2) orang Pengurus Sumber Manusia dalam industri perhotelan di sekitar Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Hasil kajian mendapati bahawa Strategi Pemulihan adalah strategi yang berkesan, bagi menstabilkan semula prestasi organisasi demi kelangsungan organisasi. Antara langkah-langkah yang diambil oleh organisasi adalah dengan melaksanakan Strategi Pemulihan (Turnaround strategy) iaitu pengurangan aset, penjimatan kos dan penjanaan hasil. Tindakan ini memberi kesan terhadap prestasi organisasi yang dinilai dari aspek komunikasi, produktiviti dan kepimpinan dalam organisasi. Kajian lepas oleh (Mann dan Byun, 2017) dan (Santana et al., 2017) menyatakan Strategi Pemulihan adalah berkesan untuk mengekalkan kelangsungan organisasi semasa pandemik COVID-19. Dapatan awal ini memerlukan penelitian aspek teoritikal, bagi melihat bagaimana hala tuju organisasi dalam mengamalkan Strategi Pemulihan, pengurangan tenaga kerja dan impaknya terhadap prestasi sesebuah organisasi semasa berhadapan dengan krisis pandemik COVID-19.","PeriodicalId":133740,"journal":{"name":"e-Bangi Journal of Social Science and Humanities","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126371263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE INVOLVEMENT OF MALE OPPOSITION PARLIAMENTARIANS IN THE 13TH PARLIAMENT, 2013-18","authors":"Amirul Azam Asri, Rosyidah Muhamad","doi":"10.17576/ebangi.2023.2002.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17576/ebangi.2023.2002.10","url":null,"abstract":"Gender is defined as personality, behavior, value, power, influence, and the role played by the two genders known as men and women. However, the problem of gender inequality often occurs in any country and occurs in various sectors such as society, economy, education, medicine, and politics. Many previous scholars made studies on women’s involvement in the political arena, but a lack of previous researchers focused on men’s involvement in the political arena. This is because in many countries the involvement of males in politics is quite high compared to women. While in Malaysia too, there is a huge gap between the involvement of men and women in the political landscape. Therefore, this article will focus on the involvement of male opposition parliamentarians in the 13th Parliament starting from 2013 until 2018. The objective of this study is to identify the issues debated by the male opposition in the 13th Parliament. The second objective is to study the behavior of the opposition in the 13th parliament and the third objective is to identify the involvement of the male opposition in the 13th parliament. This study uses a qualitative approach by using document analysis as the main method obtained from the parliamentary Hansard. According to the empirical result, there is a connection between the number of parliamentary seats and Pakatan Harapan (PH)’s victory in the previous general election (GE). The opposition acted actively in playing their role as a legislative, and representative. Interestingly this study will provide additional interest and information to several parties. Among them are the community, politicians as well as researchers. This study will give exposure to the community of the opposition parties, especially in Malaysia. Through this study, is expected that the researcher will be able to provide knowledge and information related to the opposition, especially male opposition.","PeriodicalId":133740,"journal":{"name":"e-Bangi Journal of Social Science and Humanities","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127631774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cheong Chong Chan,, Ahmad Rizal Mazlan, Nor Pujawati Md Said, Ruzita Azmi
{"title":"KESAN PANDEMIK COVID-19 KE ATAS KESEJAHTERAAN SOSIAL PENDUDUK PPR DI KUALA LUMPUR","authors":"Cheong Chong Chan,, Ahmad Rizal Mazlan, Nor Pujawati Md Said, Ruzita Azmi","doi":"10.17576/ebangi.2023.2002.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17576/ebangi.2023.2002.03","url":null,"abstract":"Abstrak: Pandemik COVID-19 adalah satu fenomena baru yang tidak dijangka sehingga mengubah kesemua aspek kehidupan manusia ke norma baharu. Para penduduk Projek Perumahan Rakyat (PPR) yang terdiri daripada kelompok B40 dijangka mengalami kesukaran kehidupan seiring dengan gelombang perintah kawalan pergerakan yang telah dilaksanakan berulang kali. Seramai 1200 penduduk PPR telah menyertai satu kajian tinjaun mengenai kesejahteraan sosial. Sebanyak sembilan soalan digunakan untuk meneroka tahap kesejahteraan sosial dan kesemua soalan tersebut adalah diadaptasikan daripada dua set soal-selidik terpiawai iaitu The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) oleh Diener et al (1985) dan Perceived Stress Scale oleh Cohen (1994). Ujian t berpasangan telah dilakukan untuk membuat perbandingan min bagi sembilan soalan tersebut untuk situasi sebelum dan selepas perintah kawalan pergerakan (PKP). Umumnya, kesejahteraan sosial penduduk PPR telah merosot secara signifikan. Antara kemerosotan ketara yang dikenalpasti adalah keadaan kehidupan, kepuasan tentang kehidupan dan rancangan kehidupan. Namun, analisis frekuensi menunjukkan bilangan penduduk yang menganggap gaya hidup mereka menghampiri idaman masing-masing adalah sangat sedikit tidak kira waktu sebelum PKP mahupun selepas PKP. Walaupun kesejahteraan sosial penduduk PPR merosot secara signifikan selepas PKP, gaya hidup mereka sebenarnya tidak berubah secara drastik. Penemuan ini turut disokong dalam 4 sesi temubual kumpulan berfokus yang dijalankan bersama 24 pengerusi atau wakil persatuan penduduk. Tema “Biasa hidup susah” yang dihasilkan daripada temubual tersebut memberi satu gambaran bahawa sebarang usaha untuk membantu penduduk PPR perlu mengambil kira keunikan daya tahan mereka yang sudah biasa menjalani kehidupan yang susah.","PeriodicalId":133740,"journal":{"name":"e-Bangi Journal of Social Science and Humanities","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127621367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ISLAMOPHOBIA AND THE CHALLENGE OF BEING MUSLIM IN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING IN ZIMBABWE","authors":"V. Mabvurira, Yasin Adam","doi":"10.17576/ebangi.2023.2002.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17576/ebangi.2023.2002.01","url":null,"abstract":"With the rise of extremist and terror activities by the various groups which are alleged to be associated with Muslim religion, people of non-Muslim communities hold a negative perception about Islam and Muslims. This study examined challenges faced by Muslim students in two public universities in Zimbabwe. The study was informed by the Social Dominance Theory. Eighteen Muslim students participated in the study, and they were identified through purposive sampling from students’ religious societies. The findings revealed that Islamophobia in public universities has resulted in Muslim students facing various challenges that include stigmatization and labelling, institutional and religious discrimination, being denied their religious rights such as performing their prayers and their societies not being recognised as official religious society at the institutions whilst other faiths and religions are awarded that opportunity. The participants also pointed out that they encounter hate crimes and verbal abuse in the lecture rooms. Students from minor religions therefore face grievous challenges in public space in Zimbabwe where the majority of the population claim to subscribe to Christian faith. The study proffers several recommendations among them; universities should investigate discrimination on grounds of religious affiliation, conducting awareness campaigns to benefit minority religious groups and sensitising university staff to be religiously conscious in their conduct.","PeriodicalId":133740,"journal":{"name":"e-Bangi Journal of Social Science and Humanities","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123819914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Noviatin Syarifuddin, Asnarulkhadi Abu Samah, Nik Ahmad Sufian Burhan, J. Arif Shah
{"title":"TAHAP KELESTARIAN PERTANIAN KOMUNITI PEKEBUN KECIL KOKO (KPKK) DI ZON PANTAI TIMUR SABAH (PTS)","authors":"Noviatin Syarifuddin, Asnarulkhadi Abu Samah, Nik Ahmad Sufian Burhan, J. Arif Shah","doi":"10.17576/ebangi.2023.2002.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17576/ebangi.2023.2002.24","url":null,"abstract":"Penurunan produktiviti tanaman koko seringkali dikaitkan dengan kuantiti, kualiti dan demografi pekebun kecil yang semakin berusia. Amalan pertanian baik (APB) yang tidak dipraktiskan dengan konsisten juga mempengaruhi kelestarian pertanian komuniti pekebun kecil koko (KPKK). Justeru, kajian bertujuan untuk mendeksripsi profil KPKK di zon Pantai Timur Sabah dan mengenal pasti tahap kelestarian pertanian KPKK dari segi sosial, ekonomi dan alam sekitar. Reka bentuk kajian kuantitatif dengan pendekatan penyelidikan tinjauan dilaksanakan ke atas 195 orang responden KPKK menggunakan borang soal selidik. Landasan model kajian adalah berdasarkan Model Kelestarian Pertanian. Item kajian mempunyai nilai kebolehpercayaan yang tinggi berjumlah antara 0.874 sehingga 0.934. Data kajian dianalisis secara deksriptif menggunakan perisian SPSS versi 26.0. Kajian menunjukkan majoriti pekebun kecil merupakan generasi pertama penanam koko, berumur lingkungan 51 sehingga 60 tahun dan berpengalaman 1 hingga 20 tahun dalam bidang pertanian. Tahap kelestarian pertanian berada pada tahap tinggi yang didominasi oleh aspek sosial (min 4.27). Diikuti, dengan kelestarian pertanian dari segi ekonomi (min 4.25) dan alam sekitar (min 4.25). Input kajian memberi kefahaman baharu kepada model yang menjelaskan keperluan Lembaga Koko Malaysia (LKM) untuk menambahkan usaha bagi melestari pertanian koko. Ini bertepatan dengan usaha LKM bagi meningkatkan sekuriti makanan negara melalui komoditi koko.","PeriodicalId":133740,"journal":{"name":"e-Bangi Journal of Social Science and Humanities","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115688632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Subramaniam Raman, Muhammad Zuhair Zainal, F. Amzah
{"title":"KESEDIAAN GURU BAHASA MELAYU MENENGAH RENDAH MENJALANKAN PENGAJARAN DAN PEMBELAJARAN DI RUMAH (PDPR) PENULISAN KARANGAN","authors":"Subramaniam Raman, Muhammad Zuhair Zainal, F. Amzah","doi":"10.17576/ebangi.2023.2002.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17576/ebangi.2023.2002.06","url":null,"abstract":"Pengajaran dan pembelajaran di rumah (PdPr) secara dalam talian telah menggantikan pembelajaran secara bersemuka ketika Covid-19. Justeru, kajian ini dijalankan untuk mengenal pasti kesediaan guru dan penglibatan serta penerimaan mereka terhadap pembelajaran penulisan karangan Bahasa Melayu secara dalam talian sepanjang tempoh Perintah Kawalan Pergerakan (PKP). Seramai 149 guru Bahasa Melayu Menengah Rendah di Kedah telah dipilih sebagai responden menggunakan kaedah persampelan rawak bertujuan. Kajian menggunakan instrumen soal selidik yang mengandungi item dan terbahagi kepada empat konstruk, iaitu kesediaan guru, penerimaan murid, penglibatan murid dan penilaian. Statistik deskriptif dan frekuensi digunakan untuk menganalisis data soal selidik. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa guru-guru mata pelajaran Bahasa Melayu menengah rendah bersedia dalam pengajaran penulisan karangan Bahasa Melayu secara dalam talian semasa tempoh PKP. Hasil dapatan juga mendapati guru-guru berhadapan dengan masalah penglibatan dan pemahaman murid-murid dalam proses pengajaran penulisan karangan Bahasa Melayu secara dalam talian. PdPr penulisan karangan akan membuahkan hasil yang memuaskan sekiranya murid-murid dapat memberikan kerjasama dan melibatkan diri secara aktif tanpa memberikan alasan. Murid-murid harus diberikan galakan dan dorongan oleh pebagai pihak sama ada dari segi moral ataupun material agar PdPr memberi manfaat kepada murid-murid.","PeriodicalId":133740,"journal":{"name":"e-Bangi Journal of Social Science and Humanities","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132947378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Duaa Khalifeh Talafha, S. Kasuma, Mohamed Abdou Moindjie
{"title":"BEHAVIOR OF VOICES IN THE BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC LANGUAGE: A CASE OF ENGLISH-ARABIC TRANSLATION","authors":"Duaa Khalifeh Talafha, S. Kasuma, Mohamed Abdou Moindjie","doi":"10.17576/ebangi.2023.2002.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17576/ebangi.2023.2002.09","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper delves into business and economic English and Arabic texts to describe the language and translator's norms and to justify these norms with regards of voices translation. The sample is collected manually from two e-portals where 20 texts were drawn from each website. It is found that translators use oblique translation methods to render passive constructions into Arabic in their endeavor to attain more idiomatic Arabic. Although translators are inclined to use the active voice more than the passive, this usage is mostly limited to dynamic verbs where English active stative verbs were modulated to passive Arabic beside the reduced adjectival phrases. The only gain of meaning or effect is achieved when the active English stative verbs became dynamic Arabic passives in order to give a stronger reporting of information. The findings contribute in characterizing the business and economic voice’ behavior in English and Arabic in an attempt to integrate the findings with the findings of other genres.","PeriodicalId":133740,"journal":{"name":"e-Bangi Journal of Social Science and Humanities","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123942786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nur Khaleeda Mohd Kamil, A. S. Amin, Noremy Md. Akhir, Abdul Rahman Ahmad Badayai, Insyirah Mohd Zambri, R. Sutan, K. Khairuddin, Wan Arnidawati Wan Abdullah
{"title":"COVID-19'S IMPACT ON THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS OF PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW","authors":"Nur Khaleeda Mohd Kamil, A. S. Amin, Noremy Md. Akhir, Abdul Rahman Ahmad Badayai, Insyirah Mohd Zambri, R. Sutan, K. Khairuddin, Wan Arnidawati Wan Abdullah","doi":"10.17576/ebangi.2023.2002.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17576/ebangi.2023.2002.16","url":null,"abstract":"COVID-19 pandemic is a public health issue. From 2019 to 2022, 4.5 million people died from the COVID-19 epidemic. Consequently, COVID-19 has put a significant strain on every single creature in this world. COVID-19 has been associated with lockdown, thus resulting in lockdown related inequities towards most people in this world, with unanticipated consequences for people with disabilities. Building in this debate, this paper aimed to discuss on the impacts of COVID-19 on the physical health of People with Intellectual Disabilities. Based on the Prisma protocol, this systematic literature review examined 28 publications from Web Sources of Science and Scopus.The study identified three themes regarding the impact of COVID-19 on the physical environment of people with intellectual disabilities namely mental health, social isolation, severe health problems, socioeconomic and psychology. This study has significant implications in understanding how PWID are impacted by COVID 19 and urged that early preventative measures should be taken since People with Intellectual Disabilities are considered a vulnerable population, therefore it is crucial to ensure that their health status are sustained.","PeriodicalId":133740,"journal":{"name":"e-Bangi Journal of Social Science and Humanities","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125471633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zurina Ahmad Saidi, Zurinah Tahir, Jalaludin Abdul Malek, Mohd Yuszaidy Mohd. Yusof
{"title":"ROYALSCAPE BUDAYA DI BANDAR DIRAJA KUALA KANGSAR REPRESENTASI ASET UTAMA PEMBUDAYAAN NEGARA BANGSA","authors":"Zurina Ahmad Saidi, Zurinah Tahir, Jalaludin Abdul Malek, Mohd Yuszaidy Mohd. Yusof","doi":"10.17576/ebangi.2023.2002.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17576/ebangi.2023.2002.27","url":null,"abstract":"Budaya dikaitkan dengan pembangunan negara bangsa sesebuah negara. Pengaruh budaya ini merujuk kepada elemen kebudayaan seperti adat resam, nilai, sikap, norma dan kepercayaan. Umumnya, budaya dianggap sebagai satu set cara hidup bagi sesebuah kelompok masyarakat mahupun komuniti. Bandar Diraja Kuala Kangsar dikenali sebagai sebuah bandar warisan budaya. Bandar ini berkonsepkan bandar Diraja dan bandar warisan bersejarah yang jelas berdasarkan wujudnya bangunan-bangunan Kesultanan negeri Perak di sekitar bandar. Ia dilihat penting dalam menjadi aset utama dalam pembudayaan negara bangsa. Oleh itu, kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti representasi budaya di bandar Diraja Kuala Kangsar sebagai satu faktor pembentukan negara bangsa. Kaedah penyelidikan menggunakan data sekunder dengan analisis jurnal, laporan kerajaan dan temu bual secara berstruktur dengan pemegang taruh. Hasil dapatan menunjukkan sebagai sebuah bandar Diraja lama, Kuala Kangsar menekankan dan merepresentasikan ciri-ciri warisan sejarah dalam meningkatkan pembudayaan negara bangsa. Dari sudut pembangunan budaya di Kuala Kangsar, ia menyajikan satu bentuk budaya yang berbeza dengan budaya di bandar Diraja yang lain di Malaysia.","PeriodicalId":133740,"journal":{"name":"e-Bangi Journal of Social Science and Humanities","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131707979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Noor Naleefa Abdul Wadood, Mimi Hanida Abdul Matalib, Yew Wong Chin
{"title":"A MASKED RITUAL: WEDDING NIGHT VIRGINITY TEST AMONG SRI LANKAN MUSLIMS","authors":"Noor Naleefa Abdul Wadood, Mimi Hanida Abdul Matalib, Yew Wong Chin","doi":"10.17576/ebangi.2023.2002.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17576/ebangi.2023.2002.14","url":null,"abstract":"The virginity test in the wedding bed is a widespread custom in many cultures and Sri Lanka is no exception. Wedding night virginity testing among Muslim community is camouflaged and masked but prevails. As a result, this study was created to investigate the significance, explanations, relevance, and reasoning for the Muslim marital virginity test as a marriage custom. This study is wholly qualitative. In order to gather data, nine cases were studied in-depth using the snowball sampling technique. One focus group discussion and five key informant interviews were done. The study has shown that the entire virginity test for the bridal bed is a pointless, damaging, humiliating, and unfair practice. The concept of hymenoplasty is barely understood by respondents. Several terms are used to describe virginity tests, such as potti odakkiya (cracking box), pon kulippaattal (bride bathing), etc. The celebration of the virginity test is marked with a breakfast feast, gifts such as gold jewelry, etc. The wedding bed virginity test has been viewed as a harmful habit, encouraging feelings of inferiority and decreasing self-worthiness. Despite gender inequalities, it was proposed that the community at large be educated about the unreliability of wedding bed virginity tests. This study fills a research gap and contributes much-needed empirical data to the academic world by providing an explanatory review on the wedding bed virginity test among Sri Lankan Muslims.","PeriodicalId":133740,"journal":{"name":"e-Bangi Journal of Social Science and Humanities","volume":"238 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123318543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}