Batik sector still untapped as it attracts buyers from Brunei

Batik of various kinds and from different states on sale at the Miri Civic Centre. — Photos: Stephen Then/The Star

MIRI: The batik industry is a potential money-spinning tourism product that is still largely untapped in Sarawak.

Sarawak Assistant Tourism Minister Datuk Lee Kim Shin said there was a need to give the batik sector a boost, especially in Miri which borders with Brunei.