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ADUN SPEAKS | New Kuala Lumpur City Council (DBKL) guidelines prohibit sundries, convenience stores, supermarkets, and Chinese medicine stores from selling alcohol to the public, effective October 1, 2021.
Under these measures, alcohol will not be sold in stores near schools, hospitals, places of worship and police stations.
In addition, shorter operating hours will be imposed in bars, restaurants and pubs that serve alcohol to their customers.
Chinese medicine stores that sell drugs with alcohol content will need to obtain a special permit from the Ministry of Health.
There is a growing fear that the imposition of these new guidelines will represent a slow but sure brake on the constitutional rights of non-Muslims.
Several people, including the former deputy minister of Amanah, have questioned this measure as a brake on the rights of non-Muslims.
Even the leaders of the country’s veterans association, Patriot, have brought the DBLK into the task force for being insensitive to the constitutional rights of non-Muslims.
Some associations, such as the Penang Consumers Association (CAP), have welcomed the DBKL move.
