KUALA LUMPUR: The authorities will amend the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) Act 1959 to enable the DBP to take motion towards any violation of the Bahasa Melayu utilization, together with on the district degree.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob mentioned beneath the present DBP Act, the federal government company didn’t have the facility to perform enforcement on language offences.
“The DBP Act shall be strengthened by giving DBP the enforcement powers. For instance, on the usage of Bahasa Melayu on signboards, DBP can take motion towards language abuse,” he mentioned when winding up the talk on the Umno normal meeting 2021 right here on Saturday (March 19).
In upholding Bahasa Melayu, Ismail Sabri, who can be Umno vice-president, mentioned all international college students within the nation should study the language and the matter was agreed by Higher Education Minister Datuk Dr Noraini Ahmad.
Apart from that, the Prime Minister mentioned a round had additionally been issued to companies, ministries and government-linked corporations to use Bahasa Melayu in every of their programmes.
Ismail Sabri mentioned Umno should champion the hassle to uphold Bahasa Melayu as stipulated in Article 152 of the Federal Constitution and Clause 3.5 of the Umno structure.
“The time has come for us to be happy with Bahasa Melayu. Therefore, there isn’t a cause for us to really feel awkward when talking the language even on the worldwide stage as a result of ‘Bahasa Jiwa Bangsa’ (Language is the soul of the nation),” he mentioned.
During his official visits to Cambodia and Thailand final month, Ismail Sabri mentioned he used Bahasa Melayu throughout press conferences with the leaders of the 2 nations and would do the identical throughout his go to to Vietnam on Sunday (March 20).
“There is not any cause why we can’t use our personal mom tongue,” he mentioned.
The Prime Minister mentioned he aspired to make Bahasa Melayu the second language of Asean as greater than 300 million folks within the area use it as a spoken language, making it the seventh most spoken language on the earth.- Bernama
