DIVISION FUNCTIONS & ROLES 

Policy Planning and Coordination Branch 

• To plan, coordinate and implement policies and researches related to culture and arts.
• To coordinate and monitor implementation of policies related to arts and culture.
• To coordinate matters related to feedbacks on Policy Paper and Cabinet Paper and providing Parliamentary input/answer for question related to the department which are      raised in the Upper House (Dewan Negara) and Lower House (Dewan Rakyat).
• To become the secretariat in providing input and responses for periodical reports and ad hoc reports managed by the Ministry.
• To coordinate data and statistic on JKKN’s headquarters and State JKKN KPI implementation in the form of total activities, location distribution and multi-racial public participation including providing the report on the statistic/analysis of department’s KPI implementation.
• To assist in coordinating international cultural programmes organized by Ministry/department/other Government agencies.
• To coordinate national and international bodies collaboration network.

Research and Development Branch 

• To be the centre of research and development excellence related to arts and culture, and focal point for the National Department for Culture and Arts research and analysis programmes.
• To coordinate and carry out arts and culture research analysis.
• To coordinate and implement arts and culture preservation, conservation and development programmes based on traditional arts.
• To plan, implement and strengthen online arts and culture database.
• To carry out efforts to gazette arts and culture as well as local reference experts/figures.
• To create strategic collaboration of institutions/agencies, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), arts and culture reference figures and experts for programmes involving research, conservation and dissemination of national cultural arts information through Cultural Mapping.
• To identify arts and culture products that have potential to be developed.