Cyberbullying: Special task force to review Penal Code, says Azalina

BUTTERWORTH: A special four-ministry task force will undertake a comprehensive review before proposing amendments to the Penal Code (Act 574) aimed at combating cyberbullying, with the changes expected to be tabled in Parliament this October, says Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said.

The Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Law and Institutional Reform), said that her ministry, in collaboration with the Digital Ministry, the Home Ministry, and the Communications Ministry, will first focus on defining cyberbullying as up to this point, the term has not been explicitly addressed in the country's legislation.