ince decades, the Jawi script has been growing rapidly among the Malay community and highly regarded as the traditional symbol of Malay culture and civilisation. Historically, Jawi became prominent ...

Although DAP is sometimes portrayed as an anti-Islam party, not many people know of one of its party leaders who has mastered the art of writing in Jawi script. Veteran DAP leader Dr Tan Seng Giaw not ...

Mohd Fared: Jawi script a shared national heritage and its use is not limited by race or religion. THE Jawi script is not exclusive to any one community but belongs to all Malaysians, says Johor ...

KUALA LUMPUR: A PAS MP has urged the Education Ministry to incorporate more Jawi script in the Islamic Education syllabus at Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) level as part of efforts to promote and ...

Plans by a Chinese lobby group for mass protests against the alleged “Islamisation” of Malaysian education have set off alarm bells in Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s government, prompting the ...

An advertisement in Jawi on a pedestrian bridge in Kuantan. Two businessmen had sought an order to revoke the municipal council’s direction requiring businesses to use Jawi on signboards at their ...

Chinese educationist group Dong Jiao Zong and Chinese-based NGOs have renewed their demand for the school boards to be allowed to decide on Jawi script lessons in Chinese primary schools. For this, ...

The Cabinet has decided that Jawi script lessons will be optional and not form part of any exam or monthly test. Chinese educationist group Dong Zong, in thanking the government for listening to the ...

FairMalaysian: Left on its own, the Jawi issue may not have attracted the level of controversy that it now faces. But when Perak mufti Harussani Zakaria talks about it, and when he extends it with a ...

A push by the Malaysian government to revive an archaic Arabic script in Chinese- and Tamil-language primary schools this year is kindling old ethnic and religious fault lines long held at a slow but ...