PULAU PINANG HARAM TANDA PUTERA

Apalagi mahu dikata kalau ini tindakan pihak kerajaan negeri Pulau Pinang. Kalau sudah kuasa di tangan mereka maka lakukanlah. Jadi, ini adalah bunga-bunga kecil yang ditunjuk oleh mereka di negeri yang mereka tadbir.

Apabila tindakan ini yang diambil oleh kerajaan Lim Guan Eng, ia menampakkan tindakannya adalah sangat peribadi. Kenapa mahu diharam dek kerana satu scene yang tidak dipersetujui? Tapi hendak buat macamana kalau sudah itu keputusannya. Nasib malang bagi orang Pulau Mutiara. Tapi betulkah mereka sedih tak dapat tengok Tanda Putera? 

Lepas ini orang-orang di Penang ramai-ramailah pergi tonton Kara King ya. Tentu kerajaan Pulau Pinang suka.

Penang government requests cinema operators not to screen 

Tanda Putera
BY WINNIE YEOH

GEORGE TOWN: The Penang government have requested all cinema operators in the state to not screen the controversial movie Tanda Putera.

Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said on Wednesday the movie is scheduled to be screen on Thursday (Aug 29) and claimed that there are slanderous scenes that could provoke racial hatred.

He added that the state regrets that the Communications and Multimedia Ministry has allowed the screening of the film without removing some scenes.

Lim said that in the movie, a few Chinese youth were shown to be peeing in the compound of the then Selangor Mentri Besar’s residence as well as on a Malaysian flag.

“The director herself said those incidents didn’t happen but she added them to make the film more interesting.

“She used the words “creative license” but it doesn’t give you the license to lie,” he said in a press conference at his office in Komtar here.

State Local Government, Traffic Management and Flood Mitigation Committee chairman Chow Kon Yeow said the local councils issue licenses to all cinemas but do not have power over the contents of the film.

However, in view of the sensitivity of the film, he said the Penang Municipal Council and Seberang Prai Municipal Council would issue letters today to all cinemas and request them not to screen the film.