NSTnation Pemenang baffled by group's stance on Jawi issue
Its chairman Tan Sri Mohd Yussof Abdul Latiff said the group failed to understand that Jawi is part of the national language.
The Education Ministry decided that the segment would be named “Introduction to the Jawi script” and would be taught on an elective basis to students in Year 4 in 2020, Year 5 in 2021 and Year 6 in 2021 in vernacular schools.The issue has persisted since then with Chinese education group having initially planned an anti-Jawi conference last Saturday, which was cancelled after Dong Jiao Zong received a court order from police.
On the looking back on the past year, Yussof said 2019 has been filled with racially-linked controversies. He said concrete solutions were needed to address such matters to ensure that it would not impact the country's growth. He proposed that as a means to tackle the issue was to include lessons about the country’s social contract in the education syllabus.
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