Arts and crafts, or any one of the professions often grouped under the 'creative industry' has often been like the neglected orphan of our nation's drive to industrialization and becoming a developed economy.

One of the issues with arts and crafts among Malaysians is that they cannot see a way forward for it to flourish but hopefully this will change with the founding of the Cultural Economy Development Agency (Cendana).

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