KOTA BHARU: The Kelantan government has banned all forms of entertainment from being held in the state on Thursday nights, including any kind of loud noise.
State local government, housing, health and environment committee chairman Hilmi Abdullah said the ban is provided for under the 1998 Control of Entertainment and Places of Entertainment Enactment.
“The ban is apt, to encourage Muslims to increase their acts of worship after the Asar prayer every Thursday until Friday evening,” he told reporters after the state executive council meeting today.
He said the ban would be enforced more strictly because of several cases of certain parties breaching the rule.
The most recent case involved an organiser of an event testing the public address system at a premises near a mosque here.