PENANG, Nov 7 - The Penang state government will proceed with its plan to put up road signages in various languages in heritage areas despite objections from various parties. Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said the state government would proceed with the plan as it was not throwing away the signage in Bahasa Malaysia but was adding suitable languages for tourists to understand.
The state government was not disputing the position of Bahasa Malaysia as the country's official language and was in fact respecting it, he told reporters at his office here, today.
"To me, the question that we are brushing aside the language does not arise because we are not discarding or replacing it with another language. It's just that we are adding a language that is suitable to the location for the convenience of tourists of various races who come to the state," he said.
As such, he said the state government would proceed with the plan although there were many objections as well as a suit filed by the 'Gabungan Graduan Melayu Muda' against the state government on the matter recently.
However, Lim said if the court decided that such an act could not be carried out, then the state government must abide by the decision.
He also said that the issue over the signages should not be politicised by certain groups because the use of Arabic language and the Jawi script besides Bahasa Malaysia had already been practised in Kuala Lumpur as well as Johor.
In another development, Lim welcomed the decision of the Shah Alam High Court in releasing the editor of the blog site 'Malaysia Today', Raja Petra Kamaruddin from detention under the Internal Security Act (ISA) after it allowed the habeas corpus application by the editor.
He said the decision would set an example for other ISA detention cases including the five members of Hindraf and signify that the ISA would soon be irrelevant. - Bernama
2 comments:
Congratulations to Penang Government for putting additonal language in the signages for the benefit of the Rakyat.
Lately, There are lots of fools demonstrating against the use of other languages. Call them block heads!They are good for nothing except to protest and particpating in street demonstrations.The knowledge the learned are demonstrations!Is that what we call Malaysia boleh! BODOH!
Those who demonstrates are uncivilised people!Malaysia does not need these fools!Call them skungs!
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