Egging issue: Jawi writing of Char Koay Teow printed on the menu board of Bee Hwa Cafe in Penang. Education Ministry’s plan to introduce khat in vernacular school is seen as “an attempt to institutionalise and politicise the Jawi script”.
AT the height of the controversy over the introduction of Jawi and khat or Arabic calligraphy into the curriculum of vernacular primary schools last week, a picture on a daughter-father dialogue emerged on the social media:
A girl looks at her father and asks: Daddy, why do I need to learn Jawi?
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