KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 22 -- While local batik industry players have called for it to be showcased and promoted during Visit Malaysia Year 2020 (VMY20), there seems to be a resurgence of the print's popularity among the youths.

The only problem is this new wave of like is not for Malaysia batik.

They seem to prefer the Indonesia-style Batik Jawa to our East Coast Batik! There are a few reasons for this; ironically, the chief among them is affordability.

Celebrity fashion designer Datuk Radzuan Radzwill said locally produced batik should be mass produced and industry players should stop treating machine-printed batik with hostility.

He took this a step further and said that instead of making batik the official attire of government official...