Pantun taking up precious time during Sarawak assembly, say MPs

Sarawak Speaker Datuk Amar Mohamad Asfia Awang Nassar. - ZULAZHAR SHBELEE / The Star

KUCHING: The issue of pantun recitation took the limelight at the start of the Sarawak legislative assembly sitting on Thursday (Nov 12).

Speaker Datuk Amar Mohamad Asfia Awang Nassar said a number of assemblymen had recited pantun to "add colour and flavour" to the proceedings while others saw it as "a waste of precious question and answer time".