Chinese education group Dong Jiao Zong says its upcoming anti-Jawi rally is not a protest but an appeal to the government to cancel the introduction of Jawi lessons in the Bahasa Melayu syllabus in primary vernacular schools. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, December 20, 2019.
A RALLY by Chinese education groups against introductory Jawi lessons for vernacular schools is not a protest, but an appeal to the government to cancel the move, Dong Jiao Zong chairman Tan Tai Kim said. He was responding to Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s warning earlier today that insistence on holding the rally could lead to other repercussions, such as Malay pressure groups reasserting their calls for vernacular schools to be shut down.
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