DPM: Make Malaysia home of Malay documents kept abroad


KUALA LUMPUR: Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin called for a more serious effort to make Malaysia the home of Malay manuscripts now kept abroad.

The Deputy Prime Minister said that not only were European institutions better known for studies of Malay manuscripts but the experts on the subjects were Westerners – Roolvink, Teeuw, De Jong, Coedes and Hurgronje to name a few.

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