PM to confer with Asean leaders on making Malay second language of bloc

KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob (pic) will confer with Asean leaders to propose the use of the Malay language as Asean's second language, in efforts to elevate the mother tongue at the international level.

Ismail Sabri said apart from Malaysia, the language was also used as a medium instruction in several neighboring countries such as Indonesia, Brunei and Singapore as well as in southern Thailand, southern Philippines and in parts of Cambodia.