Anwar Tells Unis, Companies To Correspond With Gov Agencies In BM

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim also instructed government agencies to return correspondences that were not written in Bahasa Malaysia.

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Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has reminded all companies and universities, including private institutions, to correspond with government agencies in Bahasa Malaysia.

The government agencies are also advised to return all correspondences that are not written in Bahasa Malaysia.

Anwar said a clearer directive on this matter would be issued by the Civil Service Department.

Additionally, Anwar pointed out that this directive does not put the usage of English aside. He said English is still used as the international trade language, but Bahasa Malaysia as the national language should be used as part of nation-building.

He also called on higher education institutions and schools to promote the use of Bahasa Malaysia.

I remind my friends that I would not have lectured at Washington University if I had not mastered the English language. But rooting down to earth and championing the national language is something intimate in nation-building.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim

During the launch of the National Language Decade carnival and National Reading Decade at the Multimedia University in Cyberjaya today, Anwar said there was a deviation from the constitutional commitment to uphold Bahasa Malaysia as the national language.

Bahasa Malaysia is recognized as the national language under Article 152 of the Federal Constitution, and its position is also specified in the National Language Act 1967.