Rasa Sayang

"Rasa Sayang" (pronounced, literally "loving feeling") or "Rasa Sayange" (in Indonesia) is a Malay folk song popular in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. The basis of "Rasa Sayang" is somewhat similar to Dondang Sayang and many other Malay folk songs, which take their form from the pantun, a traditional ethnic Malay poetic form. Some in Indonesia have claimed that the song originally came from the Moluccas, but such claims are disputed, as the standard Malay language itself and the tradition of pantun exchange are "alien" to the Moluccas archipelago.