33 NGOs planning "biggest" rally to protest khat

Thirty-three NGOs will be holding a rally on August 23 to protest the introduction of khat lessons for Year 4 vernacular school students.<br /><br />The rally is set to take place at Little India in Brickfields from 7pm to 10pm.<br /><br />The original plan was to introduce six pages of Jawi khat lessons to the Year 4 Bahasa Malaysia textbook, but the Education Ministry on August 8 slashed this to three pages and made it optional after pushback from the non-Malay community.