Oh dearie me, I must be regressing...

Mujahid said:

1. "Jawi is a national heritage which was once an official medium of communication between nations."

2. “With this spirit, we will retain our tradition and culture which I repeat should be supported by all races, as Jawi does not belong to the Malays. It is our Malaysian heritage”

Facts:

1. Jawi was once a medium of "written" communication in the Malay archipelago ONLY. Not global as was insinuated. Jawi is an Arabic alphabet for writing the Malay language, Acehnese, Banjarese, Minangkabau and several other languages in Southeast Asia. The REAL medium of GLOBAL communication was Latin for centuries before being replaced by Spanish, and perhaps English in the past 300 years. Given that all things are in English, even in computer language, the emphasis should be to upgrade our level of English. Not some "language" that has become extinct, and frankly, USELESS! Let's not get sentimental with education. Just look at the mess we are in compared to other countries that wisened up to the challenges of the future.

2. Jawi is of Indian/Arabic origin - please go look it up. The earliest known inscriptions were found in southern Sumatra and on the Bangka Island (683-6 AD). They were written in an Indian script during the time of the kingdom of Srivijaya. When Islam arrived in Southeast Asia

during the 14th century, the Arabic script was adapted to write the Malay language. In the 17th century, under influence from the Dutch and British, the Arabic script was replaced by the Latin alphabet. So it's not "tradition" or "culture" but a copied writing form, from 680AD or so.

(https://www.researchgate.net/…/290552038_The_Jawi_writing_s…)

3. In the same spirit, why not also include Mandarin and Tamil as official written medium in gomen depts ? Very clearly, Jawi spread as a result of Islamisation of the region. This is the fear the Enlightened  non-muslims have given the regression of the political maturity and, erosion in the freedom of expression. Who to blame - the act of the minority stupids are forced onto the majority wise isn't it? It would greatly help if our gomen was made up of really educated officials as opposed to pseudo-intellects.