Speak Malay as a matter of courtesy


I REFER to the article “I’m Malay, therefore I’m Jawi, but I feel Malaysian” (The StarOnline, Jan 9; online at bit.ly/2QC2V3l).

The author, veteran journalist and media and communications adviser to the prime minister Datuk Kadir A. Jasin, was writing about his life’s experience living in a multiracial society from the British era through to independence and today’s Malaysia.

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