The difficulty of sexual harassment within the nation’s leisure business shouldn’t be became a polemic however the focus ought to as an alternative be on additional motion to be taken as it’s an offence beneath the regulation, stated Communications and Multimedia Minister Tan Sri Annuar Musa.
He stated sexual harassment was not a trivial matter because it may additionally trigger the sufferer to be traumatised and endure from psychological well being problems.
He added that he had knowledgeable police to take additional motion if it was true that reviews of sexual harassment within the nation’s leisure business had been lodged.
“What’s necessary is that those that are sexually harassed should report back to the authorities in order that additional motion will be taken,” he informed reporters after attending the seventh Worldwide Visible Informatics Convention (IVIC’21).
“I’ve requested police to observe up if it is true there have been reviews (of sexual harassment) within the business, for instance throughout filming.
“I ask that police perform proactive investigation and take the required motion. No want for polemics as a result of now we have legal guidelines,” he added when commenting on a information report that his views on sexual harassment had been misconstrued.
Relating to the information report, Annuar clarified that he had obtained a message through the WhatsApp utility from a journalist wanting an interview on the subject of sexual harassment within the nation’s leisure business, including that he later urged that the subject of the interview ought to contact on the larger image concerning the artistic business and never simply centered on the problem of sexual harassment.
“I meant that there have been different larger issues associated to the artistic business. Sadly the subject on sexual harassment grew to become a headline whereas I stated the sexual harassment challenge shouldn’t be blown up. That could be a totally different factor,” he defined. – Bernama
