30 million Malaysians, but only 50 defending Bahasa?
It is an uphill battle against the Dual Language Programme (DLP), judging by the response at the launch of the coalition against DLP yesterday.
The meagre turnout, despite the launch being held in front of a popular mall in a busy part of Kuala Lumpur, is seen as an indicator.
Poet Pyanhabib said the DLP is actually a re-emergence of the policy to teach mathematics and science in English (PPSMI) – a policy that language activists lobbied against, until it was scrapped in 2012.
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