Teenagers love to spend their time at the internet café or cybercafés after school or sometimes until midnight. This issue has become a potential problem in Malaysia. Internet café or cybercafé is a place where one can use a computer with internet access by paying a fee per hour or minute or pay unmetered access with a pass for a day or month.
According to the Deputy Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Hamzah Zainuddin, there will be some new guidelines to be enforced soon on internet and cyber cafes in order to control these businesses. Among the new guidelines are all cyber café had to closed by midnight daily and they must be located at least 200 meters away from secondary and primary schools. Besides this, it requires teenagers or children aged 12 and below should go to the cyber cafe accompanied by their parents or guardians and they are only allowed to stay until 10.00 pm.
Hamzah also further explain that cyber cafes were also banned from other co-business activities including having games, gambling, pornography, music, and publications with negative elements. Cigarettes and alcohol also cannot be sold or consumed in the cyber café because it is not good for health.
Furthermore, the cyber cafés are only allowed to operate from the ground floor of the premises and are banned from using tinted glasses in their premises. On the other hand, there must be a book log to record the entry and departure time of the patrons.
With the implementation of the new cyber rules, teenagers will not be able to linger at the cyber cafes freely anymore. The students can concentrate more on their studies and parents can keep an eye on their children so that they will not be influenced by negative elements available from the internet. Potential criminals like gangsterism can be reduced if the time spent on the cyber cafe among teenagers can be reduced. In our opinion, these new rules should be carried out as soon as possible with proper enforcement by the Government and cooperation from the public. With this, the problems arised from cyber cafes can be reduced and solved in the long term.
Actually i'm quite agree with you and the government...because what good things you will do in the cyber cafe in the midnight?Isn't it something fishy?
ReplyDeleteAgree with ur post.....
ReplyDeleteRules and regulation should be implemented as soon as posible, cause no one know what u r doing inside cyber cafe based on my experience...