SIBU: The incident of a woman given a ‘sarong’ to wear before being attended to by Road Transport Department (RTD) officers draws brickbats from Assistant Minister of Social Development (Youth) Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah.
He said the Chief Secretary to the Government and his officers should not be overzealous when addressing this attire issue.
“Don’t make a mockery of Malaysia. Sarawak should tell the chief secretary that this ridiculous ruling is not applicable to federal government agencies in the state in order to preserve the existing racial and religious harmony.
“I feel sad for this beloved country if we have insensitive civil servants acting like ‘moral police’. Malaysia is a multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural country,” said Abdul Karim, who is Asajaya assemblyman.
He was commenting on the Facebook posting where the woman included a photograph of herself wearing a blouse and a skirt that reached just above her knees, claiming that she was handed a ‘sarong’ by a RTD officer to wear before they could attend to her over the counter.
The woman also posted another picture of her in the premises wearing the ‘sarong’.
She was handed the ‘sarong’ while lining up to get the queue number to transfer ownership of her car which she had sold.
