June 20, 2025
Jakarta – From rainforest dialogues to global rhythms, Sarawak organizes two of the most dynamic events in Southeast Asia, Rainforest Youth Summit 2025 (Rays) and the Rainforest World Music Festival 2025 (RWMF) this week, with a brave, cross -generational vision for sustainable tourism and culturally in the heartborn Herzborn and Culturally in the Herzborn in the heart bid in the Herzborbus.
Rays 2025, from June 18 to 20 in Kuching, gathered over 700 youth delegates in Southeast Asia under the topic “Living Landscapes: Charting of a Sustainable Future”.
In three transformative days, the participants made climate adjustments, biological diversity, indigenous knowledge and sustainable development with high influences. The summit presented Sarawak's leadership to strengthen the ASEAN youth to promote environmental measures from scratch and offered a lively classroom that was characterized by culture, ecology and cooperation.
Sarawak's position as a gateway to Borneo was fully equipped when the delegates learned not only from experts, but also from the country itself. Through field studies, cultural showcases and networking forums, the participants examined how the community-based tourism, rainforest protection and indigenous administration overlap.
With the strong support of Malaysias Asean Chairman 2025, UN Tourism and Pata, Rays 2025 increased the global role of Sarawak as a hub for sustainable, youth-driven development.
This year's summit also hired the youth content microgram to finance new interest representative projects guided by young people and to further strengthen voices from the environmental front of Asean. As part of your experience, all Rays delegates will now go to the next chapter, with the first day to RWMF 2025.
The RWMF 2025 starts on June 20 to 22 in the legendary Sarawak Cultural Village and returns under the resonant topic “Connections: One Earth, One Love”. With over 200 artists from 20 countries, including Sarawak's own in Adau and international icons such as Otyken (Russia) and Earth, Wind & Fire of Al McKay (USA), the festival is a lively expression of Sarawak's cultural diversity and artistic openness.
RWMF is more than a music event and serves as a lively showcase by Sarawak's Canff -Brand -Sülen, Culture, Adventure, Nature, Eating and Festivals that are mixed with responsible tourism practices. Festival goers are not only global performance, but also eco-initiatives such as The Green Ruai with sustainability stands of Pata and WWF, solar-powered charging stations and CO2 footprint-tracking tools, a zero-use plastic campaign and the carbon waste composting, the Eco-Greens, and that of local unsatisfactory Offsets-coaling programs, and the lading caretry program, which was founded by local individual and planted the Eco-Greens, experience that of local insurwearing and off-off-off-cogge programs.
These efforts match Sarawak's Post-Covid-19 development strategy 2030 (PCDS 2030) and five targeted, unusual development goals, including climate protection, responsible consumption and partnerships for the goals.
When Rays 2025 ends and RWMF 2025 begins, Sarawak is not only the goal, but as a living laboratory for sustainability, a platform for youth voices and a beacon of cultural diplomacy. The rainforest, once a teacher, is now being passed on to a stage in which stories are shared, wisdom is passed on and a future is being presented.
In Sarawak, tourism is not only traveling, but also on the move.