Only 2.03pct of vernacular primary schools agree to Jawi lessons

Only a fraction of vernacular primary schools had agreed to proceed with the teaching of Jawi as part of the Bahasa Malaysia syllabus.

According to a parliamentary written reply by the Education Ministry, only 2.77 percent of the 1,299 SRJK(C) and 0.2 percent of 525 SRJK(T) schools had agreed to do so as of June this year.