Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail told the media on Friday that the rise in rape cases involving minors due to weaknesses and failure of civil law is false, adding that it was also not caused by unimplemented syariah enactments.
Saifuddin was refuting a recent statement by Sik MP Ahmad Tarmizi Sulaiman in the Dewan Rakyat that such rape cases were due to the failure of existing laws.
00:05 He said that sexual violence is a matter of age and is related to the weakness and failure of the law in the world.
00:10 So, Dato' Sik, please comment.
00:13 I also, because the video is viral, right, his speech in the parliament. He said that the increase in the number of sexual offenses against children is due to the failure of the law that exists now, because it is not implemented in the Sharia law.
00:28 The Sharia law is made in Kelantan, but Kelantan is one of the highest cases in Malaysia.
00:33 In Kelantan, the case increased. In Kedah, the case increased. In Terengganu, the case increased. In Pulau Pinang, it decreased.
00:39 I compared the data of 2022 and 2023, okay.
00:44 Because he copied the instruction given by the CID director.
00:47 The CID director gave the instruction to me.
00:50 So, he took a part of the increase in the number of sexual offenses against children is due to the failure of the Sharia law that exists in Kelantan.
01:02 But I said that in terms of the number, the number cannot be lied to.
01:06 The case in Kelantan is among the highest.
01:08 And in Kelantan, 98% are Malays, Muslims.
01:11 What is the meaning of this sexual offense? Rape, molestation, drinking, possessing of obscene objects, pornography, sexual and physical abuse, prostitution, sexual abuse, sexual communication, and so on.
01:28 And if we look at the perpetrators, the most numerous, this is the police statistics, is B40.
01:34 For every 100, 75% are B40 groups. What does it mean? It is done by groups whose economic status is low.
01:43 M40, M40 is 24%.
01:45 Malays, for every 100 perpetrators, 67% are Malays.
01:49 Then we can relate the countries that are dominated by Malays.
01:52 So I said, now is not the time to show that this is incomplete, this is not perfect, this is wrong, that is wrong. No.
02:02 This figure shows that among the known, that is 46%, family members, 25%.
02:09 Unknown people, only 19%. Let's see.
02:12 So I think this is the first common responsibility.
02:17 The common responsibility for us to overcome this together.
02:24 It is not a question of pointing fingers and so on.
02:28 It must have more outreach programs.
02:32 There must be an education program to educate the most potential groups to be trapped.
02:42 Two.
02:44 The law is one thing, but creating a conducive atmosphere in society is the government's job.
02:53 So I would like to advise the parliamentarians, do not take one, one, two, one, two, three segments separately.
03:01 Because let us take this as a common responsibility.
03:06 This is a problem in our society.
03:09 And we take the common responsibility to overcome this problem, this disease.
03:14 And it does not stop with saying that this is the effect of not implementing the Sharia.
03:20 This is the effect of it. We have to move 355.
03:23 This is the effect of the parliament on the elite and so on.
03:27 That is all the evidence of people's mistakes.
