: Kraftangan Malaysia is implementing various programmes to help local craft entrepreneurs overcome the tough economic situation due to the Covid-10 pandemic, Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri said today.
This has forced Kraftangan Malaysia to lower its projection of craft sales for 2020 to RM200 million from an earlier estimate of RM500 million, she said after officiating the new Seri Gedong Songket workshop at Kampung Kanchong Baru Gedong, about 83 km from Kuching. “The implementation of this programme represents the government’s desire to help the target groups of youth, B40, Orang Asli, ethnic Sabahans and Sarawakians, along with the underprivileged -- single mothers, the disabled and the elderly as well as the unemployed,” she said.