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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Malacca government has come under fire for issuing a circular to all schools in the state, ordering them to include Jawi script on their signboards. The Star reported that the November 2 circular ...

Menteri Besar Aminuddin Harun says local authorities in the state have been using the Jawi script, including for road signs. FMT Reporters - The government has declared every Friday as ‘Use Jawi ...

Dong Jiao Zong has welcomed PKR president Anwar Ibrahim's call for all parties to engage in dialogues over the teaching of Jawi script to Standard Four pupils in national and vernacular schools.

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 ...

Beginning next year, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI) will revive the use of Jawi script at its two campuses in Perak - the Sultan Azlan Shah Campus and the Sultan Abdul Jalil Shah Campus - ...

The issue of introducing the teaching of Jawi script or khat calligraphy in schools has become a hot issue, as it is facing vehement opposition by the non-Malay-Muslims, especially the ethnic Chinese.

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 ...