Teachers are asked to guide students in identifying the Jawi text and to present them. The pages were previously shown to stakeholders as early as August but was never made public.

Hence, Jawi was used in the Christian Bible in the 19th century. “Slide two gave examples of other reading materials which used Jawi, including pornographic reading materials,” her statement read.

Jawi used to be the standard script for Malay but has since been replaced by the Latin alphabet, although many areas retain Jawi for specialised religious or cultural purposes.

THE Jawi script is not exclusive to any one community but belongs to all Malaysians, says Johor Islamic Religious Affairs committee chairman Mohd Fared Mohd Khalid (BN-Semerah).

Jawi, on the other hand, is more localised though it has its roots in the Arabic language. It has been used for written communication in the Malay archipelago and was practised long before and ...

PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - A meeting to discuss Jawi writing in Malaysia's Chinese and Tamil language schools on Sunday (Dec 29) passed several resolutions, chief of which was to ...

ALOR SETAR, June 22 (Bernama) -- A former Geography and Cartography lecturer at Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah took on the role of elevating the use of Jawi writing through the art of Islamic ...