Malaysia will arrest sexy entertainers. Your opinions?

New Straits Times, May 9,2007, Page 16 - Skimpy costumes and sexy gyrations from the biggest stars down to the smallest of unknowns will no longer be accepted. And foreign artistes who perform without the proper permits can look forward to arrest and blacklisting along with their managers.

Immigration Department, Culture, Arts %26amp; Heritage Ministry will work in a team. " The officers will monitor the artistes' performance, their clothing as well as their behaviour. If they wear eye-popping outfits, and if they behave improperly or indecently, or say things that touch on religious, social and cultural sensitivities, the officers have the right to stop the show."- Immigration Dep. Dir, Mohd Ramlan.

A top female star from Indonesia was advised not to gyrate (shake her hips) sexily because they have received complaints that her sexy antics were bad for our youth.

Recently, an Indonesian rock group was asked to button up their shirts, or else Ramlan would stop them from performing.

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If only the Govt and the Religious Dept has the same focus and commitment to stamp out corruption instead of being obsessed with being our moral police.

Our religious dept is superb at identifying skimpily dressed entertainers, or lovers holding hands in the park but have failed miserably in identifying even one person involved in corruption.

I agree with the comments of all my fellow answerers above.

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Come on ,the government have to make some noise so you 'll think they are capable of doing something rather than just wasting the tax-payer's money.What is decency?Come on.Don't make me laugh.
i must say its political, there is no clear line to arrest sexy entertainers a not? one good example is your hear this kind arrest is going on in the city on the other you ll see most of the sexy entertainers on the other part of the town.

it had nothing to do with religion, social and culture sensitivities. the world change and we are change with the world (of course the is a limit). common...they are only sexy not stripping.

here some tough.

"Di bawa arus penbangunan"

atau

"Di telan arus penbangunan"
Open Limewire or iMesh or any other P2P sharing program and search for "melayu". You'll get a long list of porn.

That tells exactly how decent Malays really are.

Sexy entertainment cannot, but rogol boleh... Where is the logic???
it's scandalous..
so what did The P.u.s.s.y Cat Dolls (PCD) wore for concert is Malaysia last time? jeez what a Boring country
no mere words could explain what i am about to say with regards to this news....

why dont these people concentrate on tracking which vip goes to europe to spend the missing 'rakyat's miskin fund' who buys chanel and gucci for their girlfriends in tow..
Its good before everyone start running naked.
the more u ban them the more they are going to be defiant

EDIT:

btw the entertainment industry in malaysia is not all that clean(the sex scandals/wife swapping/husband snatching -i'm not making this up. a relative of mine is in the industry .. boleh geleng kepala dia ) .. sometimes i dont know whats the big huuhaa about being over exposed etc...
they ban all these sexy thing because its against the islamic rules (they claimed)

I wonder whether is collecting undertable money against the islamic rules?!
malaysia is a muslim country.you cant have that in a muslim country.that's why they have underground clubs.!
everyone has their own point of view of the word "sexy". The "sexy" that they're talking about is probably...showing too much skin, i'm sure you know what i mean.

anyway, if that's the case...i agree. it's just not our style. we have to have our own way of doing things. we can't always follow what the western do and how they do it. it has always been in our culture to "show less". our traditional clothes proves that.

besides, celebs are idols...and if they go international...they should show the true original image of Malaysia. they're being followed by younger peoples...teens especially, so they have to watch what they do.

just my point of view. :)
gosh, government shld be concentrating on poverty, mat rempit etc etc etc..
My opinion is that it's very bad and hope that these kind of laws and rules don't go any further.
so many different opinion..

mine will be..

just follow malaysian dressing code of conduct..

but honestly i think this is just malaysian artist complaning on the indonesian artist so that they can cari makan..

sometimes malaysian artist dont follow the rules or regulation regardless of what race.. ah chong, sharifah or kalai..

so enforcement must be done internally before targeting the other artist..

as conclusion.. foreign artist shall/ must respect malaysia rule
Is showing belly button considered too sexy? I like to wear low cut jeans %26amp; short blouse. Will I get arrested?
Good. But will end up nothing.
i dont think they know what 'sexy' means...example the awards ceremony, people like Maya Karin and few others were wearing gowns with low cuts and can see part of their breast like the westerners...so why were'nt this artist dressing be banned? no comments...plain hypocrite....i also heard that the male artist were not allowed to have long hair...so what about Amy Search, Awie and his band, AC Mizal..the Amok guy....no comments...plain hypocrite
Blame the Indons again ...blah! blah! blah!
nothing much i think...juz politicians doing their job..juz imagine what will happen if politicians say something like this:

we will not take action to artists who wear 'pakaian menjolok mata'....

wouldnt it be controversial??

oooohh....my malaysia....=p....
My first response as an international artiste is "why the hell would I wanna go to MALAYsia to perform when I am not welcomed by the 'big boys'?" ... I'd rather go to Singapore or Bangkok to perform my gig, if I were to decide between Singapore, KL and Bangkok... (or maybe even Jakarta and Manila too!)

With such a stupid policies, the so-called Immigration Department, Culture, Arts %26amp; Heritage Ministry should just enjoy watching nasyid and listen to their favourite lagu-lagu jiwang musicals. I guess there will be nothing else for the Malaysians to look forward to. As Shayna mentioned earlier... the more they ban them, the more they defy.

By the way, the Malaysian system is full of loopholes and full of corrupted politicials... maybe Inul Daratista could do a private 'Goyang Gerudi' for those officers from the so-called "Immigration Department, Culture, Arts %26amp; Heritage Ministry" to get her 'special approval' later... if you know what I mean... you'll see... things happens :-)

Malaysia is just closing another door to creativity/hope and trying to create an 'image' of another foolishness and spreading their disease of Malaysia BODOH.

Good job...

*** Can't show armpits on Malaysian TV, can't hold hands in front of Malaysian TV, can't hug in front of Malaysian TV, can't kiss on Malaysian TV, can't show ghost faces on Malaysian TV, can't this and can't that... but they CAN do one thing for sure... BE STUPID.
My first reaction is to laugh out loud. Once again, my beloved government has decided to 'campur tangan' in the lowest of matters compared to matters that should have more priorities. The way I see it, our government is just jealous that other countries can produce such outstanding performers whereas Malaysia's entertainment industry is no where on par with any of our neighbours. What a pity....no wonder our country is the LAST choice of any celebrities who which to perform here if our country is considered at all.

Anyway, never mind. As with any new 'policy', after all the initial buzz, everything will revert as though nothing has been mention.
Okay, if our government is going to hault sexy entertainers from coming to Malaysia, i'll deal with as long as they provided a long explanation with it. I mean, what about those Bollywood movies where heroines show their tummies, shake their body like there's no tomorrow, touching here and there?

You know what, I think this is why Malaysia is not on the popular list of foreign tourists. Malaysia has too much do's and don't's. We have such modest promotion. Imagine if we allow those entertainers in and then when they got back to their country and tell all the nice (or naughty) things about Malaysia, i am pretty sure that tourists will come to our country like storm. We don't need all the 50th anniversary's mumbo-jumbo promotions actually..

Am i right, people?