Mujahid: Dong Jiao Zong not against teaching Jawi


Datuk Seri Dr Mujahid Yusof Rawa (left) with Dong Zong chairman Tan Tai Kim speaking to media after meeting over Jawi learning issue in Putrajaya. With him are Child Information Learning Development Centre (CHILD) director Arumugam (right) and Chinese School Teachers Association of Malaysia (Jiao Zong) chairman Datuk Ong Chiow (second left). - MOHD SAHAR MISNI/The Star.

PUTRAJAYA: Dong Jiao Zong is not against the teaching of Jawi in schools, says Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Mujahid Yusof Rawa.

"We agreed that the issue of Dong Jiao Zong (the umbrella body comprising educationist groups Dong Zong and Jiao Zong) opposing the teaching of Jawi did not occur," he said after a meeting on Wednesday (Jan 15).

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