How this could be? Don't you have local community that would discuss upcoming events?
I remember that in 2018, in Poland we have a peak activity in local community, and yet, attendance to HiveFest was relatively small (compared to local events). I know that for many a financial barrier could be a thing, but at least most of people were aware about the event.
You could try on OpenHive.Chat (I can create Malaysian channel for you), currently most active there are #spanish (bridged with telegram group, activity mostly there) and #polish (not bridged, local to OpenHive.Chat)
Also, for more local events, @buzzparty could help I guess :-)
We had a big community of Malaysians long time ago but most of them left after the fork/Creation of Hive.
Now we still do have a community but it is small. Thank you for the suggestion will follow them now.
No worries, quality over quantity! :-)
That is true!