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 ...

KANGAR: The Perlis government is making it compulsory for Jawi script to be used on new signboards starting Feb 1. Perlis housing and local government committee chairman Asrul Aimran Abd Jalil said ...

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 Melaka government's instruction that the jawi script be used on signboards of premises and billboards should be followed by others so as to preserve the script which has been a part of the ...

Controversial novelist Faisal Tehrani has waded into the Jawi-khat debate, launching a strongly worded attack on those opposed to the teaching of the script in schools, saying they are no different ...

PAS President Abdul Hadi Awang has taken to social media to repeat his claim that the objections to the introduction of Jawi script in Year 4 in vernacular schools is motivated by Islamophobia. The ...

MP SPEAKS | My generation was a victim of Jawi illiterate (buta Jawi) during the primary years when the subject was not taught anymore in classrooms. But, I was fortunate enough. My mother Kalsom Ali ...