Review: New rules for cyber cafes soon

Cyber cafes in Malaysia have been causing a lot of problems especially to the teenagers. It has raised concern by the public about this issue and government has announced that there will be some new guidelines to be enforced soon on Internet and cyber cafes in order to control these businesses. The guidelines that are been announced are:

1.Have to close by midnight daily.
2.Banned from using tinted glasses in their premises. (must be able to see through from the outside)
3.Only allowed to operate from the ground floor.
4.Those under 12 years old must be accompanied by parents or guardian and only allowed to stay up to 10.00pm.
5.Prohibited from providing gaming activities, gambling, pornography, music and publications with negative element.
6.Cigarettes and alcohol to be prohibited from being sold.
7.A book log to record the entry and departure time of the patrons.

The guidelines above are meant to solves the problems that caused by the people and teenager in cyber cafe. It has been reported that students are found to skip their class in school and stay in cyber café to play games with their friends. Most of their parent did not aware of their children daily act and thought their children were in school but actually not. Students also usually affected by their friends turn into a problematic teenager and cyber cafés are usually the hot spot for them to turn bad. Therefore, government and society are very concern about this issue.

Besides that, it has been found that teenagers surf on those pornography websites and gamble on the net in cyber café. They choose to do it in the cyber café because their parent is not around and they could do whatever they want. The main problem is that the management of the cyber café did not take any action and ignore them from those activities. If there is no action taking on this problem, we believe that it will get worst for the society as well as the next generation.


Furthermore, we could always see that people tends to smoke in cyber cafes, which is an indoor air-conditioner room. It will affect the health of those non-smokers by inhaling those second hand smokes. So, cigarettes and alcohol have to be prohibited from being sold.


Moreover, there has been a few case of fighting in cyber cafes due to several reasons like got insulted after losing a game from their opposition and the others. Hence, tinted glasses are banned to use for cyber cafes premises. It is because the situation inside the cafes must be able to see through from outside to prevent any fighting incident happen inside. It is happened because no one is watching towards them and prevents this incident to happen. Hence see through glasses is required so that people from outside is easy aware situation inside the cafes.

Hence, governments should implements those rules quickly and take serious action on this issue before it worsens. Public should work together with the governments to deal with this.