The Batu Gajah district council has clarified that the latest directive to include Jawi script on signboards was not a compulsory order, but a policy to encourage and promote the use of Jawi script in their administrative areas.

This came following a concern raised by DAP’s Kampar MP Thomas Su on the rationality of the authority to issue such an order.

In a statement sent to Malaysiakini today, the district council said...