Pahang will continue anti-vice raids, says Tengku Abdullah
PEKAN: Pahang will continue with anti-vice operations, including conducting raids at residences or other premises, such as hotels, to prevent immoral activities, said the Regent of Pahang Tengku Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah.
He said what was important was to ensure that actions by the enforcement team were not done hastily, but in accordance with the law and regulations, such as getting the approval of the police and local authorities.
Tengku Abdullah said this in response to a media report quoting Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Dr Mujahid Yusof Rawa as saying that there would be no more khalwat raids at night or intrusion into private lives of Muslims.
The minister was quoted as saying that there would be “no more knocks on the door in the middle of the night and no more breaking down of doors by religious authorities investigating reports of khalwat or other alleged wrongdoings”.
“That is the view of the minister concerned, but at the state-level , particularly Pahang, we will continue with the enforcement to curb syariah crime,” he said after opening a chess workshop for school students here yesterday.
Tengku Abdullah, who is also the Pahang Islamic Religious and Malay Customs Council president, said more awareness programmes would be organised to prevent the public from committing syariah offences.
“This programme is more apt, in fact better than punishment.
“We want to educate, and not penalise them (offenders).
“Hopefully, it will make the young people more moral, as well as make them stay away from vice,” he added.