The roman word is understandable by all Malaysian (literate). If they don’t, send them to normal school not SJKC.

If the protest was because of wastage of public funds, I agree but if you fight to put other languages in, it’s a big no. Save the money and help the poor.

And Teresa, you already know they are coming after you and will definitely look for trouble, then you should be more careful with your choice of words. Choice of words, especially for politicians is important. It can hurt or calm people even if you don’t mean it that way. Your opponents will use it to destroy Pakatan. Don’t fall into that trap.

God bless you and may you choose your words wisely.

As for the DBKL if the Bahasa Malaysia’s signboards that have existed there for so long and if they are still in good condition, why bother replacing?
In our country everything must look pretty, nice, GRAND, EXPENSIVE and yet, lack of efficiency.

To the MPs, why do we need a so-called “Muhibbah??” signs for? I agree with HanizarH that it would look a disintegration rather than integration of the people of Malaysia.
Malay read malay words, Chinese read Chinese words,Indian, Iban, Kadazan and so forth. Might as well put all the dialects on the signboards too.

When they put up something in Bahasa Malaysia, it means for every malaysian or untuk semua rakyat malaysia. Why is it so difficult to be understood?

Thailand, Indonesia, The Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam and etc, are some of the countries that are close to Malaysia. They have people from many ethnic backgrounds too but they maintain and uphold to their National Languages respectively. Why? Because they know their duty and responsibility for being the citizen of those countries.
There a lot of chinese, malays, indian ethnic backgrounds in Thailand but do you see your so-called “Muhibbah” signages everywhere over there? Absolutely NO!

Bahasa Cina and Bahasa Tamil are not the national language of Malaysia. These 2 ethnics are free to speak their mother tounge language in Malaysia (unlike our neighbouring countries, minus Singapore as Singapore is trying to create its image from scratch) but please respect others who do not come from your mother-tounge speaking background.

Speak Bahasa Malaysia or English among different ethnics. It is rude to speak a language that one does not understand it and moreoverly it is spoken in front of the person. Please understand this.

You can’t deny the fact that Malay or Bahasa Malaysia is the national language of Malaysia that its people are ought to understand it to qualify for its citizenship. Otherwise why bother becoming Malaysian? Tell me.

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1) Majority of resident’s (99%) is malay and muslim.
2) They claim, the temple is for local resident and people around it, but we as resident don’t need it. It is outsider who will come and congested our Taman/Desa.
3) The temple will be 150 meter from existing surau, for sure, in the future, this temple will complaint a lot, and a lot, about our surau
4) We are so curious and wonder, how MBSA can approve this project as they already know it is muslim area.
5) And we also wonder, how they can buy the land very cheap, more lower than our terrace house. it’s even not reach 100K. We suspect bribery and dirty agreement on this issue.
6) If they are desperate to develop ‘Bodhi Temple’. Please move it to an area where majority is buddhist.

If you can do that ‘amazing’ on the road sign. How about you help us here. Please come and see with your own eyes, how near the temple.

Reason: ramai penduduk di Kuala Lumpur langsung tidak faham tulisan Jawi.
This is unreasonable. Adakah semua penduduk faham tulisan cina dan india yang tertera?

Another Reason: Papan tanda baru memaparkan tulisan Jawi mengurangkan ruang bagi tulisan Rumi, ini menyebabkan orang ramai sukar untuk membaca papan tanda jalan berkenaan
And adding two more languages doesnt make it crowded? unreadable? i really can’t make sense out of this.

Roman characters (Bahasa Melayu) should be the only language used in these signboards. It is after all the national language. It is every citizen’s RESPONSIBILITY to understand it. In countries like Japan, China, they maintain the use of national language on signboards regardless the fact that many tourists dun understand these boards.

Removing one and adding two more (not national language) to these boards doesnt potray muhibbah at all. It is more likely to show that Malays read malay words, Chinese read chinese words, Indians read indian words… (although even some chinese n indian can’t read these characters). It look like a separation than muhibbah.

It’s weird how small issues like signboard can cause a lot of stir in our country… even makes me think again what muhibbah is all about in this country….???? I love the everything about multiracial… but today…. implementation vise.. it scares me how ppl make use of small issues like this to cause racial discomfort to certain groups.

BM in its original form exist in jawi, and latter after British occupation, also in rumi.

If you take out jawi because you say that you cannot understand it, how about the signboards in Chinese ? We MAJORITY Malaysian cannot understand that too. Take that off too.

And please also stop cakap Cina in your ceramah. I dont understand a s*** what you’re saying.

If you don’t understand the basis of it, please ask the less Chinese cauvinist member of DAP. They can alleaviate misunderstanding.

You Theresa, is a good UMNO campaigner. It was babi then, now this jawi thing. Your name equals “burden” for Pakatan Rakyat. Stop being Chinese P**.

Jawapan:
Bahasa Melayu adalah Bahasa Kebangsaan Malaysia termaktub dalam perlembagaan. Bahasa Melayu wujud dalam 2 bentuk tulisan iaitu Tulisan Rumi dan Jawi.

Sebagai bekas Ahli Parlimen yang memahami perlembagaan, sepatutnya dia mempersoalkan kenapa baru sekarang nak letakkan jawi, bukannya mempersoalkan kenapa ada jawi.

The impact of 1) – this means the road signs has to be replaced and the contractor will make more money.

The impact of 2) – this will also involves money because someone has to be paid to remove this and another round for putting it back

The impact of 3) – the authority has to act on it to prevent further damage on the road signs. Again, this also involves money because they need to replace new ones and also probably hire someone to safe guard the road signs.

Whatever it is, the entire exercise is a total waste of public funds!

But since last year, MPM was standardizing signs for all ‘Taman’….Removed all old sign, which completed with Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Cina….Yet replaced with black background sign with golden yellow words on all signs. Still there is with Bahasa Malaysia on it, but no more Bahasa Cina and replaced with Jawi… Some ‘Taman’ neighborhoods spent own bucks and made small Bahasa Cina signs for their very own ‘Taman’… Sadly some sign was been removed right after few days or few weeks later.

Personally I am very sure that all Malays know Bahasa Malaysia, so who else gona read Jawi? All are Chinese staying in my ‘Taman’, majority of them were senior citizen and dun really know how to read others than Chinese words. How can you expect them to read Jawi if they dun even know how to spell our ‘Taman’s name in Malay?

Perhaps the motive behind is not for reading of general public…………

Agree that the muhibbah road sign is the way to go. In Singapore and Sarawak, road signs reflect the multiple ethnic. They even have Thai language signs in area where may Thais live and work.

In the company I used to work for, we take care to speak languages that can be understood by all present.For example, when a few Chinese and a Malay sit together, the Chinese do now speak mandarin or dialects and speak English or Malay instead. It shows respect.

The assessments and road tax should be used to clean up rubbish, put up more dustbins, clean up the streets, put up more lights to promote safety and repair roads instead. These are priority. I don’t think the previous road signs created any problem so why waste money replacing them and I think the Auditor General can give his opinion on the degree of care in terms of allocation of resources.

I am all for local council elections and indeed the annual budgets and financial reports of each local authority should be publised in news papers. There should be nothing secretive or related to national security about it.