Consider This: Culture & The Arts (Part 2) - Should’ve Been Under Unity MInistry?

When the Coalition Cabinet was initially announced, the Arts and Culture portfolio was not included in the original line-up. Only after the first Cabinet meeting was the matter settled—that arts and culture would remain in the same federal ministry as tourism. Was this demonstrative of the lack of policy attention given to the arts in Malaysia? Tonight on Consider This, Melisa Idris speaks to writer and artist, Datuk Halimah Mohd Said.