Cendana is also different from the Culture and Arts Department (JKKN), which generally works from top-down. > Arts and culture have always been associated with nation building and creating a national identity, how will Cendana deal with that? We have different narratives and different stories, and we don’t need to define what is Malaysian. While we are working towards boosting the economic impact of the arts, we are not compromising on the quality of the artists’ work. Related story:A new hope for Malaysian artists

Source: The Star September 17, 2017 00:56 UTC