I do talk to many Chinese parents regarding the Jawi syllabus issue and many of them passed remarks like “we're already wasting lots of our kids' time learning Malay, why is the government adding more useless stuff like Jawi to burden us further?”. I assure you this is not a minority view.
Also, I should make myself clear that I'm not implying that learning Malay language at any level is waste of time. I definitely agree that most Malaysian should master basic level of Malay sufficient to deal with official matters like singing Negaraku, communicating with government officials, fill in forms, and etc. But that can be achieved with 1 period of Malay language lesson at school per week. The amount of time spent on Malay language at Malaysian schools (more than 5 periods of lessons per week) is already too much.
What languages have cardinal numbers greater than three but not greater than ten ( i.e. 3 < x < 10) in their original vocabularies, i.e. the native speakers can count up to greater than three but not greater than ten before contact with people from language(s) that can count beyond ten?
What languages do not have cardinal numbers greater than three in their original vocabularies, i.e. the native speakers cannot count up to greater than three before contact with people from language(s) that can count beyond three?
Malaysia: Why can't most Malay people in Malaysia accept the Singapore-style language policy where the national language, Bahasa Melayu (Malay language), is largely ceremonial and citizens are only required to have basic conversational command of it?
Malaysia: If the Malays know that increasing the burden of Malay language learning on non-Malays will only worsen the economy, will they still want it?
The top academically smart Chinese are not looking forward to further studies in Malaysian public universities.
Allow me to bring up the history. In the 1960s when Malay(si)a was in the early years of independence, most Chinese-medium secondary schools accepted government's proposal to switch the language of instruction to English in order to receive government funding. There was not much
Lastly, I wish to point out the Switzerland model. In Switzerland, French, German and Italian are used in all levels of schools depending on demographics of the region.
Malaysian education system is Swiss-like at primary school level.
How are temperatures of previous years deduced based on year rings of trees?
The concept of “Indonesia” did not exist before the Dutch colonizes these areas of the Malay archipelagos.
The native inhabitants of current Indonesia at that time were not only aware of Australia, they even built settlements there.
The “Indonesian” settlers in Australia eventually left or were assimilated into the Australian aboriginal societies.