An ad promoting Enigmatic Malaysia, a special series on the network meant to highlight the cultural heritages of Malaysia, mistakenly featured Balinese Pendet dancers. This prompted outrage from Balinese dancers, who posted messages demanding that Malaysia apologize over the misinformation, which then sparked a series of street protests. Further demands were made from the local governments, cultural historians and the tourism ministry in Indonesia for Malaysia to clarify the situation. The Malaysian government reportedly offered an apology, which was rejected by the Indonesian tourism minister, since the apology was given informally by phone, the Indonesian tourism minister demanded a written apology to make it more accountable.
An ad promoting Enigmatic Malaysia a special series on the network meant to highlight the cultural heritages of Malaysia mistakenly featured Balinese Pendet dancers This prompted outrage from Balinese dancers who posted messages demanding that Malaysia apologize over the misinformation which then sparked a series of street protests Further demands were made from the local governments cultural historians and the tourism ministry in Indonesia for Malaysia to clarify the situation The Malaysian government reportedly offered an apology which was rejected by the Indonesian tourism minister since the apology was given informally by phone the Indonesian tourism minister demanded a written apology to make it more accountable