Take action against nude programme organisers, says Nazri

ALOR GAJAH: The Tourism and Culture Ministry has urged the authorities to take stern action against the company that organised a motivational programme that included nude activities at a resort centre in Bentong, Pahang.

Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz (pic) said the motivational module should not have been created as it tainted national culture and went against the customs and behaviour of the Malaysian people.

“I feel they have a ‘sick brain’. We were angry at the foreign tourists who came to our country like those on the South Peak of Mount Kinabalu, Sabah two years ago.

“Now, our own people are doing this indecent act.

“This is not our culture. This is madness. If we want to ape the West, look for something reasonable – this is not our civilisation, on the contrary, it is a return to the stone age,” he said.

Early on Sunday morning, police detained 39 male participants aged between 19 and 23 for allegedly committing obscene acts in a public place by removing all their clothes while participating in a motivational programme at the resort centre.

Previously, on May 30, 2015, a group of foreign tourists removed their clothes when they arrived at the peak of Mount Kinabalu, the highest in South-East Asia.

Then on June 12 of the same year, the Kota Kinabalu Sessions court passed a jail sentence of three years on four foreign tourists and fined them RM5,000 or three months in prison for committing obscene acts on Mount Kinabalu. — Bernama