Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Dr Mujahid Yusof said the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (Jakim) supported the initiative of the Johor Islamic Religious Department (JAINJ) to use jawi script in all their correspondence.
“Tomorrow we will be launching a programme, namely Jawi week and every Friday, we will ask all staff to use name tags written in Jawi,” he told the media after opening the first international forum on ‘Islamic Thought: Revitalising Maqasid Shariah Towards A Compassionate Governance’, here today.
PUTRAJAYA: Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Dr Mujahid Yusof said the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (Jakim) supported the initiative of the Johor Islamic Religious Department (JAINJ) to use jawi script in all their correspondence.
The implementation of the initiative will commence on Jan 1 next year involving JAINJ and the Johor State Islamic Religious Council (MAINJ) as well as be used in the kadi office, religious schools and in speech texts to empower the use of jawi script in the state.
Mujahid said in Jakim, for every programme about 25 per cent of the posters or materials related to the programme were written in jawi script.
“Tomorrow we will be launching a programme, namely Jawi week and every Friday, we will ask all staff to use name tags written in Jawi,” he told the media after opening the first international forum on ‘Islamic Thought: Revitalising Maqasid Shariah Towards A Compassionate Governance’, here today.
On the forum today, Mujahid said the programme would be an annual event to discuss the principles of Maqasid Shariah especially in the Malaysian framework.
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