Bersih 2.0, the organisers of last weekend’s #BERSIH4 mass gathering in downtown Kuala Lumpur, can expect to be served with a cleanup bill amounting to RM65,000, said Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister Abdul Rahman Dahlan.
The cleanup costs would not include costs for damage of public property, which falls under the purview of Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL).
“I urged Maria Chin (Abdullah) not to spend all the RM1.5mil they collected for the rally yet,” Abdul Rahman said today at the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park in Serdang, as quoted by The Star Online‘s Neville Spykerman.
“We will leave it to DBKL to send their bill to Bersih.”
Bersih 2.0 claimed it received more than RM1.2 million in funding from a donation drive made open to the public, and from the sales of official yellow “BERSIH 4” t-shirts and other merchandise.
Last weekend’s mass demonstration saw up to 300,000 Malaysians taking part in the streets of KL, where they stayed for 34 hours. #BERSIH4 called for clean and fair elections, a clean government, recognition of Malaysians’ right to dissent, the rescue of the country’s eceonomy, and the resignation of Prime Minister Najib Razak over allegations of corruption and poor political leadership.
Apart from the rally in KL, #BERSIH4 also took place on a smaller scale in Kuching and Kota Kinabalu, as well as 50 cities around the world.
