Socio-cultural advisor to the government, Tan Sri Dr Rais Yatim said the RM2 million special fund to buy literary works should be continued as it had helped writers to produce works of high quality.
"We do not want the talent of our great writers to go to waste. Without the special fund, it is hard for them to remain active," he told reporters after the launch of the book, 'The New Age of the Kings: Modern Monarchies in Malaysia and the World', Thursday.
Written by Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) former lecturer Dr Paridah Abd Samad, it is about the constitutional monarchy system and its importance in the country's administration.
The government introduced the special fund in 2010 to help the writers and gave RM10,000 to writers' associations to finance language and literary programmes.
However, the special fund was dicontinued last year.
Rais said he would meet Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak soon to request that the fund be continued.
On the Sarawak government's decision to use English as the official language of communication, he said the matter should be studied as it involved the Federal Constitution.
"Many things need to be considered before implementing it including in the context of belonging among the people, nation building and the Malaysian identity with the Malay language as the national language."
Bernama
Thu Nov 26 2015
Rais said he would meet Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak soon to request that the fund be continued.
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