Nusa Dua, Bali (ANTARA) - Indonesia is encouraging members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to form an ASEAN Creative Economy Community in an effort to create a creative industry market in the region, a minister said. "The creative industry in ASEAN is developing extraordinarily so it may well become one of the region's economic growth engines," Indonesian Tourism and Creative Industry Minister Mari Elka Pangestu said after opening the ASEAN Business and Investment Summit at the Bali International Convention Center here on Thursday. She said the creative industry in the region was quite attractive but it needed a forum which could unite creative industry businessmen and make them more focused on developing their businesses with wider market targets. "One of the topics of discussion in the ASEAN Summit on Business and Investment this time is development of the creative industry," she said. The minister said all of the summit's participants agreed to the proposal made by Indonesia because their respective countries could create added values. Mari said that of the 10 members of ASEAN, only three, namely Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia, already had an integrated program to develop the creative industry. Indonesia itself still lacked an integrated program for development of its creative industry, yet it already had a ministry to handle creative industry development, she said.(*)

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