‘Stop bystander culture’


(Seventh from left) Lim flanked by Ong on her right and Penang Welfare Department director Rozita Ibrahim, with attendees at the launch of Penang Goes Orange 2025 (PGO 2025) campaign in Komtar. — Photos: CHAN BOON KAI/The Star

The rising number of domestic violence cases nationwide urgently calls for communities to break their silence and take collective action.

Penang social development, welfare and non-Islamic religious affairs committee chairman Lim Siew Khim said domestic violence cases nationwide jumped to 7,116 in 2024, compared with 5,507 cases in 2023.

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