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No spitting, no shorts: Dress code at Batu Caves
K Pragalath | August 12, 2013

The Batu Caves Sri Subramaniar temple has come up with a dress code for visitors and joggers after receiving several complaints from devotees.

PETALING JAYA: A dress code for visitors, especially morning joggers, to the Batu Caves Sri Subramaniar temple has been put up at the foot of the 272 steps due to complaints made by temple devotees.

Temple committee chairman R Nadarajah said devotees came to pray as early as 7am and they were especially embarrassed and disturbed to see people exercising in front of the temple when prayers were being conducted.

“People cannot exercise in front of the temple in shorts. We have been receiving complaints every week,” said Nadarajah.

He said joggers in shorts would be told to exercise in the field nearby.

Nadarajah said this when asked to comment on a Chinese daily report on six dress code prohibitions imposed by temple management committee.

According to the Sin Chew Daily’s front page report, visitors to Batu Caves are not allowed to smoke, run up the 272 steps, spit, wear shorts, wear skirts and bring pets.

Temple’s works committee chairman N Sivakumar said devotees wearing shorts and carrying kavadis during Thaipusam would however be allowed.

“They are coming here for a religious purpose and there will be no restrictions for tourists during Thaipusam,” he said.

He added that competitions such as the Tanggathon Batu Caves could still be held provided that the participants were properly attired and inform the temple committee in advance.

“We can allocate one or two flight of steps for the participants without inconveniencing and endangering devotees,” he said.

More than 800,000 locals and foreigners visit the temple every year.

later on - no cainis

pui.. sampah merata-rata jugak

they banned Iban & Dayak people lor?

its a place of worship, this should have been implemented years ago

what's wrong with you?

tutup aurat pls

sorry wrong topic

there got place for jogging?

Those stairs would give a good workout.

they always start things very innocently, and with a lot of reason

they say it's a "religious place", so you gotta show "respect"

and to them, showing "respect" means you can not wear short pants - i like someone to quote me a verse from the Hindu texts which says that wearing short pants is "disrespectful"

then they will expand the list - no lipstick, no perfume, no this, no that, and then they will expand it again, until one day, they think that place only belong to themselves, so they start to ban people that don't like from stepping on the "holy ground"

straight run up, jangan pandang belakang .. im scared of heights

paranoia.

its a freaking temple. go run somewhere else la

dafuq....no shorts?

waiting for people raging cos malaysia turn into taliban ran country, oh wait

who else like to wear short2. vroom vroommm

true, millions of jews were not paranoid enough and they ended up in oven

plus, you will never be as successful as Andrew Grove for he believes that only the paranoid survives

This post has been edited by ash tray: Aug 13 2013, 12:38 AM

+1

wah can piap2 in between those rings

yep, the hindus are adopting islam's practice of banning shorts

And some end up in mental asylums.