MIRI: Comprehensive and holistic approaches are needed to revamp the country’s culture as a whole in order to make citizens value heritage and sustainable development.
“In line with the vast development of the fourth industry revolution, it is about time that we revamp the country’s cultural policy in order to make it more sustainable,” said Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture Malaysia deputy secretary-general Soraya Arbi.
She was addressing this here yesterday morning to nearly 150 stakeholders on the country’s cultural policy.
“Today’s programme is about collecting ideas and inputs, so that we can put it into our policy (of the country’s cultural policy),”she said, adding that it is crucial for the ministry to collect inputs from stakeholders in order to know what they wanted for the betterment of the country’s cultural development and sustainability levels.
“After 48 years, it is about time, that we (the ministry) conduct a study and re-structure the country’s policy,” she opined.
She hoped that through the revamped policy, it could propel Malaysia into not only a well-developed nation but also one that practises high cultural values.
Also present was the department of Tourism Policy and International Affairs Division secretary Dr Tan Awang Besar.
