{"id":2317,"date":"2008-09-05T11:31:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T03:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/09\/05\/kedah-bans-concerts\/"},"modified":"2008-09-05T11:34:46","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T03:34:46","slug":"kedah-bans-concerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/09\/05\/kedah-bans-concerts\/","title":{"rendered":"Kedah bans concerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysiakini <a href=\"http:\/\/malaysiakini.com\/news\/88825\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that the state government had imposed an indefinite ban on rock, pop, reggae, and dangdut shows. Hmm&#8230;bad news indeed. So, no THR Raaga concert in Kedah?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the state government, such concerts have a negative influence on youths.<em>The Star<\/em> newspaper today quoted state executive councillor Dr Ismail Salleh as saying that the administration does not \u201ccondone any <em>gelek-gelek<\/em> (gyrations) on stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ismail said the state is currently formulating a comprehensive guideline for concerts and informed that the ban will remain until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>However, he added that the state government is not opposed to entertainment but stated that concerts could have a negative influence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But PAS Info officer Mahfuz Omar himself was in the dark about this ban.<\/p>\n<p>SIS meanwhile are asking Pakatan Rakyat to state their stand. Another headache for Anwar and his team.<\/p>\n<p>Ini PAS memang problem&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysiakini reports that the state government had imposed an indefinite ban on rock, pop, reggae, and dangdut shows. Hmm&#8230;bad news indeed. So, no THR Raaga concert in Kedah? According to the state government, such concerts have a negative influence on youths.The Star newspaper today quoted state executive councillor Dr Ismail Salleh as saying that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[112,113,199,159],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-religion","tag-discrimination","tag-intolerance","tag-kedah","tag-pas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}