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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 strengthen the use ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A push by the Malaysian government to revive an archaic Arabic script in Chinese- and Tamil-language primary schools this year is kindling old ethnic and religious fault lines long held at a slow but ...

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 ...