Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka to ensure RM20 million budget allocation benefits publishers

DEWAN Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) is devising the best mechanism to ensure the allocation given by the government through Budget 2023 will benefit publishers to help the country showcase quality translated works.

The DBP, in a statement today, said among the issues to be focused on include the translation of original works and masterpieces in the Malay language into foreign languages and from foreign languages into the Malay language as well as the publication of selected publications.