{"id":103979,"date":"2026-06-24T10:14:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/?p=103979"},"modified":"2026-06-24T10:14:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:14:43","slug":"postponement-of-the-2026-national-arts-award-asn-implementation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/postponement-of-the-2026-national-arts-award-asn-implementation\/","title":{"rendered":"POSTPONEMENT OF THE 2026 NATIONAL ARTS AWARD (ASN) IMPLEMENTATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This statement serves to inform regarding the decision by the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture (MOTAC) to postpone the 2026 National Arts Award (ASN) to a date to be announced later . This step is taken in line with the implementation of operational expenditure control directives to ensure public financial management is conducted prudently and efficiently . However, this postponement only affects the award ceremony itself and does not impact the ministry&#8217;s ongoing commitment and efforts to drive development programs, empower the arts industry, and preserve the nation&#8217;s cultural heritage.<\/p>\n<p>MINISTRY OF TOURISM ARTS AND CULTURE<br \/>\n24 JUN 2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/KENYATAAN-MEDIA-PENANGGUHAN-ASN-2026-1.pdf\">MORE INFORMATION<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dikeluarkan oleh:<br \/>\nUNIT KOMUNIKASI KORPORAT<br \/>\nKEMENTERIAN PELANCONGAN, SENI DAN BUDAYA (MOTAC)<br \/>\nTel: 03-8000 8000 Fax: 03-88917181<br \/>\nWebsite: www.motac.gov.my Email:\u00a0group.ukk<br \/>\nFacebook, Instagram &amp; X: @mymotac<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This statement serves to inform regarding the decision by the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture (MOTAC) to postpone the 2026 National Arts Award (ASN) to a date to be announced later . This step is taken in line with the implementation of operational expenditure control directives to ensure public financial management is conducted prudently&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized-ms"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103981,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103979\/revisions\/103981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}