While we may not be able to bring back cyberbullying victim Rajeswary Appahu, otherwise known as Esha, stricter laws with severe penalties are being put in place to ensure that such cases do not repeat, says Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said.
The Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Law and Institutional Reforms) said Esha was the victim of cyberbullying, which led her to take her own life.
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The Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Law and Institutional Reforms) said Esha was the victim of cyberbullying, which led her to take her own life.
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00:00I would also like to draw attention to the introduction of Section 507D, bracket 2,
00:05where I would like to name that section with the permission of Aishah Claus.
00:09This year, we were surprised by the situation of Mendyang,
00:14whom we know as a young woman who often uses her social media platform
00:20to spread some positive content.
00:24Unfortunately, Mendyang became a victim of cyberbullying,
00:27which was so horrific that she took her own life.
00:31The loss of life, or the process in which her life was taken,
00:40was based on one day after she made a police report.
00:44Imagine, she thought the police could protect her,
00:49she made a report, and then she took her own life.
00:52What actually happened in this process?
00:55We may not be able to bring Aishah back,
01:00but what we can do as respected people,
01:04and I am quite proud of the speech of respected people who made Skilland,
01:07is that we want the landscape in our country to be different
01:12when it comes to the so-called bullying culture,
01:16both physically and digitally, that is cyberbullying.
01:21What we see from her case,
01:24if we look at the writings of several law experts,
01:30for example, they state that one of the biggest problems
01:35is that we do not have laws that deal with the issue of bullying,
01:41and also cyberbullying.
01:42That is why some people say that the penalty is only 100 ringgit.
01:47Why only 100 ringgit?
01:48Because that is the only thing that is seen as sufficient.
01:53I would like to point out, before I go into specific questions,
02:00Section 503 of the Criminal Intimidation Act,
02:05if we look at Article 22,
02:09Criminal Intimidation, Insult and Annoyance,
02:11under Sections 503, 504, 505, 506, 507, 509, 508,
02:24the premise is different.
02:27It cannot take into account what is happening in the digital era.
02:31And we as many experts in criminal law,
02:37we see that the element of the mainstream and the actress
02:40is the main link.
02:42And one of the challenges of cyberbullying, for example,
02:45in the case of Meniang,
02:47the evidence that was there during the time of TikTok
02:50with hundreds and thousands of views,
02:52bullying, insulting, insulting, threatening,
02:56the important evidence cannot be released.
03:00You asked me earlier,
03:02you asked the government,
03:04what is the actual implementation of these elements,
03:07which is tomorrow, safety in the data,
03:09where the service provider, the platform provider,
03:12will be given the responsibility, the duty of care,
03:15to determine whether these things can be stopped
03:18when a report is given to them.
03:20Either through the MCMC agency,
03:22or to them as a provider.
03:26What happened in this case,
03:28when a report was given to the police, to the MCMC,
03:31it could not be resolved.
03:33Whatever we say, the system used,
03:36the proof of TikTok in the live feed,
03:40to stop, to prohibit, to send, to investigate,
03:45to release, was not able to be done
03:48by our agency regulator, the MCMC.
03:51That's why the law this time,
03:54we create it from the criminal intimidation,
03:58because cyberbullying is not an approach
04:01that is seen as a physical threat.
04:06Because in the definition,
04:08we mention the meaning of harm.
04:12Because some of us have mental resistance,
04:14even if we say it 10 times, we don't know.
04:16But some of us don't have mental resistance,
04:18even if we say it once, we don't want to leave the house.
04:21So we need to have laws
04:23that can look at the situation.
04:26So, Mr. Yangbomat, you have raised the issue
04:30about the existing law group.
04:33I want to explain that this move,
04:35the government has given some approaches
04:39so that the law group can be overcome.
04:43First, the Penal Code, Article 574,
04:45regarding the issue of bullying,
04:47has become a burden
04:49because there is no specific provision.
04:51Because cyberbullying and cyberbullying
04:54in the Penal Code do not have a specific provision.
04:59And I mentioned earlier, Section 503,
05:01which includes the crime of intimidation.
05:04Because Section 503 in the Penal Code
05:07is not seen as a cyberbullying threat,
05:12but is seen as a crime of intimidation.
05:15So who are we intimidatingating?
05:17What kind of intimidation is it?
05:19So cyberbullying is not a threat
05:24even though it can cause mental pressure,
05:26including in Section 503 of the Penal Code.
05:29Then we look at Section 509, which I mentioned earlier,
05:32which has some limitations in resolving the issue of bullying.
05:35This provision is subject to the use
05:38of any words or actions
05:41with the intention of disturbing someone's dignity
05:44with the words or actions being heard or seen.
05:47Therefore, it is subject to the use.