MEMBERS of the Tawau community continued with their daily, peaceful routine on Thursday, ignoring the threat by the Indonesian Benteng Demokrasi Rakyat (Bendera) movement to attack Malaysia, reported Sinar Harian.
For traders at the biggest market in Tawau, Pasar Tanjung, Thursday was business as usual. Restaurants, too, carried on with entertaining customers and banks operated as usual.
“All this is played up by the media. It’s not easy going to war and those they attack could be their own relatives too,” said Affandi S. Mohd, 39.
Various newspapers had carried reports on Bendera’s intention to attack Malaysia on Thursday and enter through Sabah’s nearest town to Indonesia.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan urged people not to believe any reports of attacks by Bendera, Utusan Malaysia reported.
As for the tightening of security at the Kalimantan border, Musa said: “This is not the reason. Even when there was no such threat, we have been doing it to prevent anyone from attacking the country,” he said.
He said police had not received any report of any Bendera attack.
> Veteran local artiste Norlia Ghani denied being a follower of Abdul Kahar Ahmad, the leader of an alleged deviationist Muslim sect, Harian Metro reported yesterday.
“Don’t slander me. I am not ignorant or ‘lost’,” she said in Kuala Lumpur.
Norlia, 61, was shocked when asked to comment on the paper’s front-page story on the Selangor religious authorities’ search for a veteran female artiste who is believed to be linked to the deviant teachings of Abdul Kahar, a self-proclaimed prophet.
She said that although she knew Abdul Kahar, she had not joined his group.
Norlia said she knew him from a drama shoot decades ago and had not been in contact with him since then.
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