SHAH ALAM, Aug 16 — KDEB Waste Management (KDEBWM) said it will take legal action against anyone who is spreading an old video from 2020 of an inverted Jalur Gemilang on one of its vehicles.
KDEBWM media and public communications department said it views the incident seriously and wants everyone to stop sharing videos and pictures of it.
“This incident occurred over five years ago, on August 24, 2020, in Rawang, and was resolved after an investigation by authorities. KDEBWM had even issued an open public apology at the time.
“KDEBWM is disappointed and saddened by how several parties are spreading an old video of an incident where the Jalur Gemilang was seen hung upside down from a lorry of our company,” it said in a statement today.
It added that in the incident, the complainant had rescinded their report after it was determined that there was no intent to insult the national flag, following statements from witnesses that confirmed the flag was installed correctly but some ties became undone in the lorry’s journey, causing it to hang upside down.
“The witnesses voluntarily made a police report to support this fact. Plus, the official attire and colours for KDEBWM staff and lorries in Selayang, including Rawang, are now red and yellow, no longer blue as in the old video,” it said.
In 2020, a 36-second video went viral, showing a man reprimanding a contractor and garbage truck driver for the inverted flag on their vehicle.
The video, reported to be taken in Bandar Country Homes in Rawang, showed the lorry driver saying that the flag was improperly hung by a Bangladeshi worker.
