GEORGE TOWN: It will no longer be easy for outsiders to enter Majestic Heights flats in Paya Terubong, dubbed Penang’s mini-Haadyai, to pick up foreign women for sex.
After some flats had been turned into prostitution dens, the building’s joint management committee plans to issue residents’ cards to stop unauthorised persons from entering.
Committee chairman Lew Hong Keat said residents would have to show their cards to security guards before being allowed entry into the property.
“We hope to hold a meeting next month with representatives of factories who have rented the units as a workers’ hostel,” he said when contacted.
Residents only: Foreign workers loitering outside Majestic Heights There are some 5,000 foreign workers, mostly Bangladeshis, Indonesians and Vietnamese, staying in the 1,557 units. This is double the population of locals living in the flats.
“I have met some outsiders who come to the place often. When I asked them what they were doing here, they just said they came for kang tao (prospects),” Lew said.
He also said some of the foreigners had serious beer drinking problems. “They just throw bottles out of their units and there were occasions when the bottles landed on vehicles and shattered windscreens,” he said.
It was earlier reported that the residents, who had formed a Rakan Cop watch group, have caught couples having sex inside some vacant units. Soiled mattresses have also been found in the units.
Several pictures were made available to The Star, including one which showed a semi-nude couple.
George Town OCPD Asst Comm Azam Abd Hamid, when contacted, said the residents could introduce the card system as part of their community policing programme.
“It’s not against the law. They can do it as long as the committee feels it is the best system to prevent outsiders from going in.”
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