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 ...

THE Jawi script is not exclusive to any one community but belongs to all Malaysians, says Johor Islamic Religious Affairs committee chairman Mohd Fared Mohd Khalid (BN-Semerah). He said the use of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...