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Conservation of heritage buildings is a way to promote our culture to the tourists and to inculcate the appreciation of culture and heritage among Malaysians.
In 2007, Malacca and Pulau Pinang have been nominated to be included in the UNESCO Heritage List. Apparently, this will increase popularity of those destinations not only within the local community but also foreigners. The heritage properties need to cater to wider audience, inevitably disabled and elderly people should be under consideration. In addition, there is a relevancy to include disabled and elderly people in tourism industry since Malaysia had signed the ‘Proclamation on the Full Participant and Equality of People with Disabilities in the Asia-Pacific Region’ on 16th May 1994 (Accessibility in Malaysia: Disability Awareness Training for Local Government Technical Personnel).
In the year 2002, government endorsed the Biwako Millennium Framework for Action (BMF). It proclaimed the extension of the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, 1993-2002, for another decade, 2003-2012. The BMF is emphasis on the human rights-based approaching to disability issues with defining slogan “inclusive, barrier-free and rights-based society” rather than charity-based. Accessibility to built environment is one of the areas out of 7 priority policy where Biwako Millennium Framework for Action wants to achieve. The policy reflects the consequence of implementing barrier-free in built heritage rigorously in order to accommodate involvement of disabled people in the society. Thus the conflicts of accessibility for disabled and elderly people in heritage buildings need to be ascertained.
In preservation and conservation of heritage buildings, architects, building managers and authority play their crucial role respectively. Building managers will always need to ensure their services provided for disabled and elderly visitors when undertaking their heritage properties. Whilst, architects perform the restoration procedure according to conservation guidelines and standards. Apart from that, they need to work on legislative mechanism and statutory framework given by the authority concern carefully to accomplish barrier free and disabled friendly environment.
According to the literature survey, the approach of conservation in Malaysia is generally similar to the practice in developed countries especially United Kingdom. Nevertheless, the mechanism of legislation in Malaysia lack of flexibility compared to United Kingdom where there are systematic statutory frameworks that have been implemented to achieve accessibility in heritage sites. Hence, the manipulation of conservation guidance and access legislative control need to be addressed.
In 2007, Malacca and Pulau Pinang have been nominated to be included in the UNESCO Heritage List. Apparently, this will increase popularity of those destinations not only within the local community but also foreigners. The heritage properties need to cater to wider audience, inevitably disabled and elderly people should be under consideration. In addition, there is a relevancy to include disabled and elderly people in tourism industry since Malaysia had signed the ‘Proclamation on the Full Participant and Equality of People with Disabilities in the Asia-Pacific Region’ on 16th May 1994 (Accessibility in Malaysia: Disability Awareness Training for Local Government Technical Personnel).
In the year 2002, government endorsed the Biwako Millennium Framework for Action (BMF). It proclaimed the extension of the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, 1993-2002, for another decade, 2003-2012. The BMF is emphasis on the human rights-based approaching to disability issues with defining slogan “inclusive, barrier-free and rights-based society” rather than charity-based. Accessibility to built environment is one of the areas out of 7 priority policy where Biwako Millennium Framework for Action wants to achieve. The policy reflects the consequence of implementing barrier-free in built heritage rigorously in order to accommodate involvement of disabled people in the society. Thus the conflicts of accessibility for disabled and elderly people in heritage buildings need to be ascertained.
In preservation and conservation of heritage buildings, architects, building managers and authority play their crucial role respectively. Building managers will always need to ensure their services provided for disabled and elderly visitors when undertaking their heritage properties. Whilst, architects perform the restoration procedure according to conservation guidelines and standards. Apart from that, they need to work on legislative mechanism and statutory framework given by the authority concern carefully to accomplish barrier free and disabled friendly environment.
According to the literature survey, the approach of conservation in Malaysia is generally similar to the practice in developed countries especially United Kingdom. Nevertheless, the mechanism of legislation in Malaysia lack of flexibility compared to United Kingdom where there are systematic statutory frameworks that have been implemented to achieve accessibility in heritage sites. Hence, the manipulation of conservation guidance and access legislative control need to be addressed.
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