PKS strongly condemns the plan and asks the Bintan district tourism office to abandon itBatam, Riau Islands (ANTARA News) - The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) has denounced the Bintan district tourism office`s plan to organize a beach party fashion show as part of its efforts to attract tourists.
"PKS strongly condemns the plan and asks the Bintan district tourism office to abandon it," chief of the party`s branch in Riau Island province Abdulrahman said here on Tuesday.
The Bintan district administration is planning to hold a beach party fashion in the middle of May 2011 to attract as many domestic and foreign tourists as possible.
Abdulrahman said there were still many other ways to attract tourist arrivals in Lagoi tourist resort without having to organize such fashion that had sparked strong reaction from many sides.
"Don`t pursue seasonal benefit at the expense of large interests," he said.
He said the fashion ran counter to the role of Riau Islands province as a center of Malay culture which is very identical to Islam.
"The plan to hold the fashion obviously ignores the Malay culture as the parent culture of Riau Islands," he said.
The fashion not only contradicted the Malay norms and culture but also violated pornographic law, he said.
"Because the event violates law, we ask the police not to issue a permit to hold it," he said.(*)
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