PETALING JAYA: The Raja Permaisuri Agong, Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah, has resorted to tweeting in Jawi, the Malay-Arabic script at the heart of a controversy over its teaching in vernacular schools.
The popular queen switched to Jawi on Dec 28, after earlier defending the government’s move to teach the script as part of the Bahasa Melayu subject in vernacular schools.
It comes amid resistance from several non-Malay educationists, with some saying teaching Jawi was part of a larger Islamisation agenda in Malaysian schools.
In her latest tweet yesterday, Tunku Azizah questioned the powers of a school’s Parent-Teacher Association (PTA)to decide on the contents of the national syllabus.
“Anak-anak saya juga ke sekolah kerajaan. PIBG hanya untuk menjaga kebajikan dan mutu pelajaran yang disampaikan oleh guru,” she wrote in Jawi.
(My children also attend government school. PTA is only to protect the welfare and ensure the teaching quality).
She was believed to be responding to remarks by Deputy Education Minister Teo Nie Ching, who reportedly said that the teaching of Jawi in vernacular schools was subject to the approval from PTA and parents.
Meanwhile, Tunku Azizah’s Jawi tweets received praise from her Twitter followers, including former police chief Musa Hassan and former minister Syed Hamid Albar.
“Bravo Tuanku. Speaking the truth. Even the British recognised this heritage,” Syed Hamid wrote.
The queen had earlier said it was an advantage to know how to write in Jawi, as well as to master additional language skills.
She gave the example of her son learning Mandarin, as well as her sister-in-law, Johor’s Raja Zarith Sofiah Sultan Idris Shah, who has a major in Mandarin from Oxford University.
“It’s no loss learning Jawi or other languages and calligraphy,” said Tunku Azizah. - FMT
Maybe can start using jawi to teach coding and other technological languages. In this manner everybody in msia will rush to learn jawi in order for them to have knowledge of coding and others. Jangan marah ye, just my two cents thoughts.
ReplyDeleteOkay kot. Tapi kan lebih elok BM diajar dalam Jawi. Lagi syok.Cina dan India tak boleh lari....
ReplyDeleteCina India people are very resilient people, give them whatever you want to cut them off economically or educationally, they surely can triumph with flying colours but not so with the orang tanah melayu. If kalah they will start crying the 3Rs. Even being a majority now already said hilang maruah, being down troden by others, hilang heritage this and that and not knowing they are to be blamed themselves. You are your own worst enemy but rather blame others. Sad indeed and easily run amok.
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