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Pak Romli is the last living awang batil performer
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Pak Romli Mahamud says even his own children had difficulty picking up the awang batil art form.
PHOTO: CHERYL HOFFMANN
SINGAPORE – The northern Malaysian storytelling tradition of the awang batil is likely to die with Pak Romli Mahamud unless he finds a student.
The soft-spoken 68-year-old is resigned about the fact.
