Malaysian Batik no more??

It rather precarious that no local daily seem to pick up this news thread.

Are we just lost our national costume to the Indonesian? I hope both Najib and Anwar can say something about this.

International / Asia Pacific

Score One for Indonesia in the War Over Batik

By PETER GELLING

Published: September 15, 2009

Indonesia gets bragging rights — over Malaysia — to batik, the process of creating intricate patterns on textiles with wax-resistant dyes.

Permalink: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/world/asia/15iht-batik.html