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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Cabinet has decided that khat lessons will be renamed Jawi and will be introduced in the syllabus for Year 4 primary school pupils in vernacular schools, despite the backlash from various groups.