We did not organise ‘Topless Beach Party’, says city-centre bar
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KUALA LUMPUR, April 8 — An entertainment outlet denied today that it either organised or planned to provide the venue for the controversial “Topless Beach Party” this Friday, saying that it would hunt down anyone who had wrongly linked the company to the event.
The management of The Pool, a bar in the city centre here which claims on its website to have “epic pool parties”, told The Malay Mail Online that the party was never even scheduled to take place there.
The Islamist party, PAS, had earlier urged the authorities to crackdown on what it called “wild, extreme and illegal” parties. Later, Umno Youth claimed that the “Topless Beach Party” had been cancelled following orders from Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor.
“The Pool has nothing to do with this event and we have never organised such an event,” a spokesman for The Pool who declined to be named told The Malay Mail Online.
“We have never done a topless party and we would never do something like this in Malaysia. We have always done proper legitimate parties,” he added.
The spokesman said the event was not posted on The Pool’s official Facebook page, but added that the venues started receiving calls after the poster advertising the party suddenly appeared online.
“We are trying to resolve the issue, trying to find out who put up this poster. We are going to find out who did this,” he said, adding that the company’s “reputation” has been damaged.
A poster found online listed The Pool as the event venue for a “Topless Friday Beach Party” and also cited the dress code for the event as “bikinis/boy shorts (lesser the better)”.
Earlier today, Islamist party PAS called upon the Federal Territories Religious Department (Jawi), the police and the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) to take action against premises holding “wild, extreme and illegal parties”, claiming that authorities were empowered to intervene in such events.
Later, Umno Youth claimed that Tengku Adnan had ordered the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) to use “every power at its disposal” to shut down the event, but did not state the rationale for the order or whether the order followed proper procedures and laws.
“Immoral parties such as this must be opposed by everybody so that it would not be a trend among the youths, especially Muslims, because it can destroy the faith of the community,” youth wing deputy chief Khairul Azwan Harun said in a statement, warning others from organising similar events in the future out of respect for the locals’ culture.
Previously, Johor banned a pool party scheduled for last weekend after backlash from conservative Muslim groups.
