Let me first state my personal position. I feel that the Jawi calligraphy should never be a prioritised element for the education ministry, and members of the public need not overreact lest they ...

The issue of introducing the Jawi calligraphy in Bahasa Melayu textbooks in vernacular schools has become a heated topic in the country’s Chinese community. Beginning next year, Jawi calligraphy ...

ALOR SETAR, June 22 (Bernama) -- A former Geography and Cartography lecturer at Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah took on the role of elevating the use of Jawi writing through the art of Islamic ...

Pakatan Harapan lawmaker Wong Shu Qi today accused the opposition of taking her speech on the introduction of khat (Jawi calligraphy) in schools out of context in a bid to play up racial sentiments.

Norizan Mat Diah, Marina Ismail, Putri Mazliana Abdul Hami and Suzana Ahmad of UiTM Shah Alam, Malaysia developed a software to teach children Jawi calligraphy. UiTM lecturers are reviving Jawi, the ...

It said Jawi had not been in the mainstream even for the Malays for the last 50 years at least. “Khat is Arabic calligraphy and has never been part of Malaysia’s identity but is an Islamic ...

PETALING JAYA: The teaching of Jawi calligraphy in vernacular schools should be made a co-curricular learning activity away from the Year Four Bahasa Melayu syllabus, says a concerned group ...

Jawi is the script used for writing, like the Roman alphabet. Khat is calligraphy, an artistic variation of the basic script. There is calligraphy of all scripts, not just Jawi. Before one can go ...

Tango Bug: The issue was never Jawi as a script. Please do not reframe the narrative of the racist NGOs. The issue was the forced compulsion behind the introduction of Islamic calligraphy with its ...

Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Religious Affairs), Senator Dr Zulkifli Hasan (second, left) during the launch of Batik Jawi Calligraphy Collection by Indah Atelier. Also present, ...

Muslimin also said the Jawi writing was an art and the ministry wanted the people to enrich their culture and the knowledge of the calligraphy. In August 2019, an interfaith group challenged the ...

Plans to introduce Arabic calligraphy lessons for 10-year-olds ... written with the Latin alphabet but Arabic script, known as Jawi, has also been used historically, and is still used for some ...