Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said the government will be giving serious attention to efforts to empower national art culture and literature in line with the endeavour outlined under the concept of Malaysia Madani.
In a dialogue session lasting more than one and a half hours, Anwar said various brilliant ideas were thrown by the writers, among them was to create a Nusantara Literary Council as a forum to exchange ideas between the countries of the archipelago, boosting translation efforts, besides reviewing the role of the cultural attaché
Anwar said the discussion also touched on the issue of learning and teaching of local and world literature works. “I also suggest that the masterpieces of national laureates be published in a more attractive form to be used as souvenirs for government guests and they can also be distributed in Malaysian embassies abroad to be used as public reading material,“ he said.