Nope. Margarine is nothing more than hydrogenated palm oil. It's artificial.
Real butter is real ... original cow fat. Priced around ~ RM9-15 per 250g pack.

The cheaper Buttercup and other cheap butters < RM8 are adulterated butter.
They contain a high proportion of soft margarine.

Real butter is the best, inc clarified butter i.e. (real) ghee.
Read the labels properly when purchasing butter/ghee to diffferentiate between original and artificial mix.

Japan actually have a dairy industry (concentrated in Hokkaido), though it's not in a good shape atm.

You want cheaper milk here, need to open up Sabah/Sarawak vast open spaces to dairy farming for a real effort.
Anything done in Peninsula is a half-cooked effort, imo. It won't fill local demand, almost zero chance for regional export potential.

Yep - http://www.farmfresh.com.my/the-farm-fresh-story/
Expensive because supply and demand. Plus they have little competition in terms of local dairy farmers.
Their main competitors are imported milk. I think it's relatively easy to be profitable once you sort out the marketing & supply chain and streamline production.

To get reasonable prices for milk and cheese, more locals need to get into dairy farming. Competition always drive prices down (up to a point).

Just some random Googling:

Malaysia imports 95% of its milk needs but doesn’t develop local farmers for self sufficiency
https://rama4change.wordpress.com/2012/09/2...lf-sufficiency/

Gov't to set up board to milk M'sia's dairy industry potential
https://sir.nst.com.my/news/2017/03/219740/...ustry-potential

To comment on the NST:
Malaysian Dairy Board formation in 2018 is a start. Better late than never. The board itself is useless (only good for setting standards and theory work). In terms of implementatiotn, what they really need is an agricultural school (like this example) that focuses exclusively on dairy farming. Our dairy industry is at an infant stage, more skills/knowledge are needed than monetary investments. You need the school to churn out skilled farmers and farm helpers. This will help sustain the industry.