A group calling itself Gabungan Seni Khat Action Team (Sekat) will be organising a National Jawi Congress set to take place one day after Dong Jiao Zong's Chinese Organisations Congress session to protest the introduction of Jawi lessons in vernacular schools.

Sekat's National Jawi Congress, which will take place on Dec 29 at the Crystal Crown Hotel in Petaling Jaya, is to pressure the Education Ministry to go back to the drawing board when it comes to the introduction of Jawi lessons as part of a compulsory subject.

"We want to exert more pressure on the Education Ministry to go back to the discussion table," Sekat national secretary Arun Doraisamy (above) said at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur today...