Inappropriate touching involving a male customer and a salesman in a fitting room at a shopping mall is an example of how men can experience unwanted touching, says Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri.
The Women, Family and Community Development Minister shared about the incident which was related to her by one of her officers involving a friend, who faced physical harassment.
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The Women, Family and Community Development Minister shared about the incident which was related to her by one of her officers involving a friend, who faced physical harassment.
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00:00Please welcome the representative of Malaya University, Saiful Jaya.
00:09When I first became the minister,
00:15I saw the statistics at the time,
00:19which were obtained by the police,
00:22out of a few hundred,
00:25more than 400,
00:27we only had more than 100 men.
00:30But the figure was static,
00:32it was static, it didn't grow.
00:34When we held an education like this,
00:38when we held an education like this,
00:41we could see our counter,
00:44our PSSS counter,
00:46the local social support centre,
00:50where we placed counsellors.
00:53There, we could see the increase.
00:57It was only men,
00:59up to hundreds,
01:01who came forward.
01:02Maybe it was because he was a man,
01:05he was shy.
01:06Awareness for the future.
01:09Maybe he wasn't macho.
01:11This is not a compliment,
01:13this is an opportunity for us to talk,
01:15and we got a new idea,
01:18how this counsellor helped us.
01:21Other than that,
01:23we need to involve men,
01:25so that they can talk to their friends,
01:28to their family, to their friends.
01:31I want to talk about my employee.
01:35Coincidentally, that day,
01:37I was actively talking about this matter,
01:40and I heard in the news,
01:42there was a man who went shopping,
01:47and he wanted to go fitting.
01:51He went to a fitting room,
01:53in a shopping complex.
01:58He went there,
02:00and there was a salesperson following him,
02:04following him to the fitting room.
02:08He was good at hitting his partner.
02:10Both men.
02:11He didn't know.
02:12You have no right to do that.
02:14He didn't know.
02:15The man contacted my employee,
02:18and he said,
02:19I just got hit.
02:21He didn't do anything.
02:23He just hit his back,
02:25or his buttocks.
02:27I don't know.
02:28But this is something that is already happening.
02:31I don't know how he dared to do that
02:35to a potential customer.
02:39This happened to a man.
02:42If we could,
02:44we would ask men to join our program,
02:48Squad Wajah.
02:49We have an NGO called Squad Wajah,
02:51which focuses on issues like this.
02:56They are provided with knowledge
03:00on how to help.
03:02But mostly,
03:04there are thousands of women.
03:06Men may think they are not needed
03:10in an NGO like this.
03:13I don't blame anyone.
03:15Maybe we, as the ministry,
03:18especially the Women's Welfare Department,
03:20need more people to offer.
03:25They can join us in Squad Wajah.
03:28That's one.
03:29We also encourage their involvement
03:32in a program like this.
03:34Maybe we want to hear what men have to say.
03:37Because women are often the victims.
03:40Or children.
03:41Children, especially men and women, are the same.
03:44They are usually the victims.
03:46The same goes for our parents.
03:48We want men to speak to their parents.
03:51Because sometimes,
03:52we hear women's voices too often.
03:55But it's time for them to also listen to the men's voice.
03:58And also, we ask them to help
04:01in social media.
04:03Let's use social media
04:05with more impact
04:07or be more aggressive
04:09for more people to know
04:12what we can do.