Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) has pulled the plug on the city’s “Better Beer Festival 2017.” It would have been Malaysia’s largest craft beer festival. Single tear.
DBKL issued a statement today saying that the August 28 application from festival organizers had been rejected, with no approval being given for the date nor the time. They also told warned that any go-ahead with the event would result in prompt closure by authorities.
It’s believed that the rejection was due to the objections by conservative, Islamic party PAS, which referred to it as a “vice festival.”
A spokesman for the party said that the event would turn our fair city into Asia’s vice center, which in the company of Bangkok’s Patpong and Soi Cowboy, and just a regular KTV on a Saturday, is saying a lot.
PAS called into questioned whether authorities could guarantee that members of the public who were not participating could be “ensured [of] their safety from crime, free sex, rape and so on.”
Wait, since when is “free sex” a vice? I thought it was the other way around?
It had been scheduled to be held October 6 and 7 at Solaris Damansara and would have been the third time the event was held in the city.
Looks like an election is right around the corner, kids.
