sinchew

Putting Jawi into perspective

The ban of Chinese Organisations Joint Congress has intensified the already highly sensitive issue. Let me first state my personal position. I feel that the Jawi calligraphy should never be a ...
bernama

Invitation To King’s Installation Ceremony Steeped In Tradition

Warkah Persilaan or instrument of invitation --fotoBERNAMA (2024) COPYRIGHT RESERVED Grand Chamberlain of Istana Negara (Datuk Paduka Maharaja Lela) Datuk Azuan Effendy Zairakithnaini. Abdul Baki Abu ...
scmp.com

Chinese dissent in Malaysia over Jawi script in schools raises alarm in Mahathir’s government

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 ...
sinchew

Tajuddin: Jawi not the only one for aesthetic appreciation

Tajuddin: If we are serious about learning the Malay civilization, Jawi script had its origins in Pallava, which in turn had its origins in Sanskrit, why do we just learn Seni Khat and not earlier ...
The Star

PAS MP urges for more Jawi script in SPM Islamic Education syllabus

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 ...
Free Malaysia Today

Jawi and khat not Malaysia’s identity, says non-Muslim group

A section on khat writing is to be included in the Bahasa Melayu textbook for vernacular schools from next year. An interfaith group today challenged the education ministry’s statement that the ...
Free Malaysia Today

Think rationally, Maszlee tells groups threatening boycott over Jawi script

Education Minister Maszlee Malik (left) with Teachers’ Training Institute rector Rusmini Ku Ahmad. Education Minister Maszlee Malik today called for calm following reports that a parents’ group is ...
Malaysiakini

Yoursay: Jawi issue being used to divide Malaysians

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 ...
The Straits Times

Put teaching of Jawi in Chinese and Tamil schools on hold, urges National Jawi Congress

PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - A meeting to discuss Jawi writing in Malaysia's Chinese and Tamil language schools on Sunday (Dec 29) passed several resolutions, chief of which was to put ...
The Straits Times

Malaysia to make Malay-Arabic calligraphy optional in vernacular schools after 'Islamisation' concerns

KUALA LUMPUR - The teaching of Malay-Arabic calligraphy or khat in Chinese and Tamil primary schools will be made optional, Malaysian education minister Maszlee Malik said on Thursday (Aug 8), ...
Malaysiakini

Yoursay: When muftis jump into the Jawi fray

YOURSAY | 'I just love (not) how men of faith, decide to use and abuse the Constitution when it suits them.' Harry Mou: Perak mufti Harussani Zakaria, can you answer these questions: If Bahasa ...