KOTA BARU: Kelantan police acknowledge that many locals, including teenagers, are illegally crossing into Thailand during weekends in search of entertainment.
Kelantan police chief Comm Datuk Mohd Yusoff Mamat (pic) stated that while the police aim to curb this activity, their authority is limited to arresting foreigners entering Malaysia illegally under the Immigration Act.
"Most of these youngsters travel to Thailand on Thursday evenings and return to Kelantan by Saturday," he told reporters on Monday (Nov 4), adding that they park their vehicles in Rantau Panjang and cross the Golok River to enter Thailand, bypassing the authorised Immigration, Customs, Quarantine and Security (ICQS) Complex route.
"My counterpart in Thailand informed me that a large number of young Malaysians cross the border, especially on weekends (Friday and Saturday), to visit nightclubs, where they often have to wait in ‘shifts’ to enter the entertainment venues.
"This trend of young people from Kelantan visiting nightclubs in Golok was recently discussed with Kelantan Mentri Besar Datuk Mohd Nassuruddin Daud," he added. – Bernama
